Recent content by maae10

That's right, put my original post into the magic machine and (drum roll) indeed, it is a scrotum.

I am a man. I did score big. You're not getting anywhere near my scrotum. :D

Thank you, that was a big help.

I'm confident but I am wrong on rare occasion. I'm not god :) In case the stock shoots up earlier then I anticipate.

Return on my money and finding the best risk/reward ratio. That's a good point, but are you sure all I would be left with is $2-$3? Figure my 85 puts I bought would only be worth about .50 and the 100 puts I sold would have a value of about $4.5. I'm left with $4. Assuming my number ($4)...

Why not take advantage of the high premiums and sell puts?

I know but what's going to really move this stock is the iPhone release.

1. If I buy calls don't I have a higher return as opposed to buying the stock? 2. Tell me what I'm doing wrong with this scenario. Is there a simpler way to do this or is there a way to get a better return with/or less risk? Sell 100 Puts @ 10.90 Buy 85 Puts @ 2.95 Net Credit = 7.95...

Sorry, I forgot to mention the option premiums. Let's say I'm buying July options (only because the June options don't have prices yet, and this modeled on something I'm working on now) The prices are: 90C: $7 95C: $4.7 100C: $3 105C: $1.8 90P: $4.9 95P: $7.5 100P: $10.9 105P: $14.8

Stock XYZ is at $91 You think there is a small chance the stock will move up in the next two weeks and a very strong chance the stock will move up in the next 45 days. Then you expect the stock to drift back down to 90. If in the next 45 days there is a: 5% chance it will go higher...

Got me all figured, have you? I actually got very little advice regarding the question that I asked. I got a bunch of people telling me how I shouldn't be trading.

(sigh) now you're going to start nitpicking over what words I use (roll eyes) Black Swan. Expecting the unexpected? OK, I cheated and googled it.

I was betting that C and WMT would stay put and took losses on both of those. Ironically my losses this month was on the less volatile stocks and my winners were on the volatile stocks. Many of my picks are stocks that I'm betting will stay in the same price range so any big movement doesn't...

Yup, it started as 5 contracts and 2 got assigned yesterday. These three got assigned today.