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I am a beginner option trader doing mostly spreads and could join cheers.

Thanks guys - rmorse, sprindr0, newurl. Last night after rmorse's comments I started looking into alternatives considering the equivalent short put. I stumbled upon an interesting post by atticus on selling puts on good low betas and hedging with atm index puts or VIX calls. I only started...

Thanks Rmorse. Very helpful response and led me to do some reading last night about the selling puts alternative, which does make a lot more sense. My reading last night got me to an atticus post about hedging that with itm index puts. It makes sense, I just need to figure out a way to model all...

I have done a few options trades, but I'm definitely a beginner and I may be completely off, so bear with me. I am trying to get my head around something and was hoping someone could shed some light. Suppose I want to set up the lowest risk strategy options with covered calls. For example...

Anyone in Toronto? part time trader here looking to hookup, exchange ideas and save costs.

Your taxation in Canada will depend on the type of legal relationship you have with the prop trading firm (e.g. employment, partnership, shareholder etc). You are not required to pay U.S. taxes if you are not a U.S. citizen and trading U.S. equities from Canada regardless if you are making...