Recent content by wagross

Speaking of 50-60 stocks, I’m considering carefully the width of my wings. I’m overwhelmingly using $5 wide wings. Given the math, that’s just about all I can afford. Tastytrade’s research suggests wings at like 10% of the underlying. Yikes! For SPY that’s a $30-$40 wide wing

I re-read the post, a couple of times. Frankly I’m kinda mystified by many of your terms-I’m just a Schlepper from the West Side. But I think what you’re referring to is contained on the Tastytrade trade page- particularly their “expected move +/-“. Also the page has the standard deviation and...

Nice, thanks… I gave up on Schwab- I’m fully on Tastytrade because of the ease of use

thanks, but i don't understand what you mean when you refer to "components" and "sub-components"

idk... month after month I'm writing more credits than debits in the aggregate, to the tune of 6-8% of my capital per month. I haven't had the energy to record and follow every entry to its conclusion (some 60 trades each month), as my friend suggested to me, that is until this month. So we'll...

Nice, thanks!

You can have a view and you can trade a direction. Simply use a smaller Delta for the stock's likely direction.

I'm constantly tinkering with the Delta for my strikes and the width of my wings for my 45-60 DTE trades.