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When to close a short option position to maximize the return from premium decay?
thats very straight forward... looking at selling options from one perspective like theta will not give you the dimension necessary to deal with all the risks in play.. i've heard things like..you get paid in theta for taking gamma risk.. which makes complete sense but doesn't take into... -
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Any Trading Related Q&A Sites Like Quora and Esp. Stack Exchange?
this is more of a free market... and i like it that way... you get all the wacko's but they do very well in removing spammy advertising.. you make friends with people that help you.. I personally think real traders aren't advertising anything nor do they typically spend alot of time teaching...- cdcaveman
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VIX fly / spread journal
Think Fast and Slow.. Daniel Kahneman i thought it was a good book.. kind of that Malcolm Gladwell thing going on .. like Blink -
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ES Journal - 2013
I can tell you think we will break or hit it.. up that is... -
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Any Trading Related Q&A Sites Like Quora and Esp. Stack Exchange?
Communist! Ha- cdcaveman
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Delta neutral or directionality: which one do you pick?
up and out.. that's vernacular from the exotics.. your meaning deeper itm puts and otm calls or the other way around.. i thought indices would have a positive relative put skew rather then call.. -
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Delta neutral or directionality: which one do you pick?
Any idea why etf and index skew is higher?.. I dont think put master isnt gonna get it... he will start spitting back stuff about percentage otm slash risk reward ratios and spread trading leverage till your blue in the face -
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Delta neutral or directionality: which one do you pick?
hahaah you know me to well.. jump diffusion is a type of stochastic/random process ... i was using it more like diffusing a bomb(jump) in your options book.. which is clearly the wrong use.. thanks for pointing that out.. always can count on ya ;) -
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Delta neutral or directionality: which one do you pick?
wow thats all i have to say about this thread haha.. .... right right there are differences in trading options period to trading the underlying.. as is there are differences in trading direction with options and using delta to hedge sold or even bought options depending on your view... -
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Delta neutral or directionality: which one do you pick?
Just stop... put master you make even me sound like I know what I'm talking about.. -
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Delta neutral or directionality: which one do you pick?
How do you diffuse jumps.....tail risk -
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Buying back covered calls
Very bullish means you want more long and less short .. get rid of the calls altogether... Your not making sense. If your so bullish why leave open unhedge calls... -
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Stocks with large moves on previous earnings announcements
i looked at apples options today.. theres already alot of premium built into the intra expiration and not much on the pre earnings expiration.. jan 18 against the next jan.. there are weeklys now going out into feb.. little late to the show.. although i'm sure there is still some juice there. -
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Buying back covered calls
why latter out at all unless you are speculating.. legging out of a trade as a way to recovery is a very very bad way to deal with your situation.. if you called it wrong in the first place what makes you such a pro that you can leg out ? i learned that hard way on that way.. and hindsight... -
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Delta neutral or directionality: which one do you pick?
As i typically say.. your always exposed to direction in some respect.. and the idea behind neutral trading has been de bunked so many times... as the assumptions of hedging continuously in time without friction aren't real at all.. even in static replication IE box or jelly rolls you are...