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Right you don't profit from a increase in skew.... This trade isn't for real spikes in vix I would agree... I'd take this one as a bet vols will bump up a bit from a all time low... I would definitely want the upside on a reallly volatile event

I don't think you really read what i was saying.. I'm not proposing to be short naked calls on the vix ... a call debit spread funded by a short put... this isn't an outrageously crazy strategy on vix... if vix goes to 11 and expires you could lose what you paid for the call spread, and...

no its not extremely dangerous at all... your selling a put on the vix when it's around 12 or 13.. and your buying a call spread out of the money... You can only lose so much selling a vix put.. vix will not go to zero...and the call spread is limited risk... a call spread is limited risk...

the commissions as i have stated round trip at IB are 36.96 or .03695... Roughly 4 cents... So if you entered this spread at -.13 your breakeven would be -.09305.. but sense this trades in increments of .01 .. i rounded up to a 4 cent round trip... I do believe you can make this... but i'm not...

This structure should be much more stable then a regular butterfly

1/-2/1 and -1/+2/-1 aligned like this +1/-2 /+1/ 0 0 /-1/+2/-1

why do you say my god?

I'm an irrigation guy.. I'll admit i am no Nobel laureate winner..... But no amount of education credits makes sense of what i see going on.. That is all

.. buy a put..

It's actually a bull spread with three bear spreads inside it..... +1/_/_/-1, -3/+3... Your trying to isolate a dislocation... In this example its june

It's. On crude oil

got it

how are you holding two short ovx?

but there were OVX futures for a time

Just a question... the spread is +1/-3/+3/-1 what exactly does this isolate..

I hope your being sarcastic again haha

omg... It's amazing how comfortable people are with calling themselves that .. People have just forgotten... Any Intelligent person should be able to see a correlation with socialism and ww2... They wanna leverage the value creation from capitalism to redistribute through some government...

I understand what you guys are saying.. I just don't know how prudent it is to have bank regulation and banks being run by the same guys...

for trading options futures etc...You can really use Amibroker