Recent content by TexaSPY

The big deal is, with the addition of opening Thursday trading, weekly option traders can now roll positions week to week. That's significant - in the past, since the SPX options are Friday AM settled, you'd have to tread water until the SET was announced and prior positions cleared - usually...

To expand on what rluser said, certain underlying securities (see CBOE site for complete list) have quarterly options that expire on the last business day of each calendar quarter. For SPY, you'll see the ROQ.. prefix in Mar, Jun, Sep, and Dec. expiration months. There are even weeklys on a...

Brandon, you're not thinking this through. If you work for yourself (if that's even a possibility) you'd have the same cost for all those benefits (FICA, health insurance, etc.) as your employer does - perhaps even more as you'd lose some economies of scale that an employer enjoys. So as...