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Just cant keep your hands off things can ya haha.... sobriety means soundness of mind... Not necessarly full blown off everything (as i am)... But to each his own... i dont preach.. I didnt even know that was your blog.. I just gravitated to it first because it said something addicted...

Interesting... I'm sober 16 years... 17 on Dec 5th... definitely can relate to being addicted to "things".

You need to read a lot more... if its actually unrealistic for the underlying to go through the short strike then you won't get much of anything for selling it

Floor is gonna fall out in the next week or so.. anyone would be stupid to by here imo

stay away from expiration... you should read more before doing anything probably though.. and don't sell to far otm.. this works better in a falling volatility environment.. closer to option expiration you get the more gamma risk you take on...

where is your get out point?

just a few quick questions for the guys wearing helmets and on training wheels (me) ... are you essentially pair trading? for example if you believe a single name is correlated to the index.. and you believe that single name is way ahead of where it should be in relation to the index...

umm.. wow some days your up.. somedays your down...

haha thats a joke right.. the options expired worthless today.. 10k account down to 9337.00 but hay i'm not whistling in the wind thinking the vol spike is going to subside ;) haha

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no interest in the bby calender trade?

same in illiquid small securities.. the bid/ask spread is so wide that your on a very short shoestring.. and alot of edge is lost because of the difficulty of hedging for the market maker.. i need some dirty tricks!

umm.. your right.. but this isn't a good thread to follow..... thats an obvious fact... when your backtesting.. your looking to see how the implied volatility of say straddles played out real time in the market.. meaning i bought implied volatility.. the question is was the implied cheap or...

trade in beta neutral ratio..... how does one beta neutralize a straddle in a high vol high beta stock.. beta being a weighting of vol of ssingle name against index... thats buying vol in single name.. you offset this by selling vol in index via a ratio formed out of the beta.. ?

getting your deltas from underlying?

so your saying that a binary is exactly a call spread but more expensive because they are making a spread between them buying a call spread and them selling you a binary.

its all relative.. how can you make such general assumptions.. sometimes low vol premium is great to sell.. sometimes high vol is great to buy.. its irrelevant what your saying

whats single name referring to?

Replicating bets sound like the best way to express side bets with people. ie my credit spread I pussyed out on...

you messed up... . your right in a random anonymous forum and nothing changed in your book.. thats all i'm saying.. there was a limited risk strategy you could have banked on a tumbling of the shares.. but you didn't even take a small bet.. i don't get it..