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the vix is a 30 day weighted measure of the premium across the strike space in the spx options. this means if demand for premium goes up then the vix can go up or down regardless of the price action.... its supply and demand for the options.. yes there is a high correlation though

..... Trading time spreads with options introduces strike risk which is more working parts.. Atm is different for each contract.. do you trade the strangle/straddle around the atm strikes of each of its expiration.. or do you take a direction view on each expiration underlying to converge...

i love it when i find books that spell things out explicity to haha..

good resource.... http://rseek.org/ another good way.. is to subscribe to anything that shows up with the Tag "R" in stackoverflow.. in the console.. RSiteSearch("key phrase")

Sinclairs "option trading" is a precurser to the volatility trading.. and its a better start for sure.. I read Mcmilllian's stuff to.. thats a great start to..

maybe if you gave a little more detail as to where your pulling data from.. and what your going to be using the data with..

you take on obligations as a seller/writer of options.. you buy rights when you buy options.. there is an absolute definition to your risk when purchasing premium.. selling options does not have well defined risk.. if you sell a put.. your collecting a credit with the obligation of...

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Great article...

what.. thats a putspread... you can just throw that into the window get a quote and buy or sell the spread...

still working on defining risk with futures spreads.. hard to.. going to look at call spread swaps to see if i can express the view.

go over synthetic replication on this page.. http://www.theoptionsguide.com/long-put-synthetic-straddle.aspx each leg of every trade has a liquidity factor and margin req that needs to be consider as part of the risk reward..

Barron.. you need more redundancy.. this stuff is costing you i'm sure... an entire day down on a site with your traffic.. costs alot of money.. and i'm sure doesn't make advertisers that happy.. just a thought.. not trying to be a dick.. i run a few sites myself. and i've never had one down for...

stay small till you get balls :)

you ever trading calenders with options on these kind of futures?

yeah.. you don't like trading in the term? or do you combine that with yoru views for say corn/soybean

can you make the picutres smaller.. it makes the thread very unreadable..

interactive brokers provides spread products.. what exactly are you talking about . be specifice.. which products are you looking at ..

i swear that cnbc cheerleader touts his own holdings to dump on the public.. he sold the public gold from 2011 all through the exact top of that market.. i remember i was new in 2012 feb.. cnbc had a call GNK at 9.. literally right after it took a huge shit.. within three months it was at 3...

people have been bullish on apple since 730... eventaully i'm sure they will be right again haha