Recent content by severdog

Here's my $.02 on Todd and his course....your mileage may vary, etc. I bought his course back in 2006 when the vol was completely dead. I learned a lot at the time about intraday trading from this package, however the ATR of the ES at the time was less than 10 points and much of that was...

No. With these strategies you are playing hand-hand combat with the price since the strikes are so close to the money. I would expect to see the short options ITM during the normal course of the trade, which is why I am concerned with early assignment.

Lots of buzz about weekly options these days. I've traditionally been an OTM option seller on the SPY/IWM, and if I have to go closer to the money for better risk/reward, I'll use a european-settled option like the XSP or SPX/RUT to avoid any issues with early settlement. Has anyone had any...

I have sort of a basic question that I can't seem to find an answer to. The SPX follows support and resistance very well. Why is this? It's not a stock that can be limit set to camp out at a S/R level like individual stocks...so how do SPX options move the S&P500 and make it follow...

Hello- I just found this forum/thread. Can someone please answer what an "OPG" is? Pardon the newb question. cheers......Craig/Granville, OH