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yeah.. that way you can exploit the nonlinearity of point A now.. and Point B expiration.. if its worth more between now and then.. don't you wanna have the option to sell it?

2,525 in margin to sell 10 puts.. collecting 30 dollar credit.. ... not worth it to me..

yeah diversifying by broker is good! in a short term trade.. on gld + BOT 1 GLD NOV 02 '12 + (1) 164 + (1) 169 - (2) 166 Call Combo 0.63 USD SMART 14:07:56 OptTrader 2.16 null

open sub accounts with IB ... to mitigate contagion in margin issues amongst different strategies.. just as an example.. if your aggressively selling puts in one sub account.. and you get a market crash.. you'll get called on only that amount in that account.. so you can blow up in a small...

i need my unemployment figure massaged... anyone?

just transferred my money out of Think or Swim... they tried to make me jump through hoops to get rid of the ticket fee... they wanted statements showing a certain amount of trades faxed to them.. i would have had to cumulate a bunch of account statements and send them to them.. just to have...

ditching TOS...

like for example.. aapl vix against spy vix http://www.cboe.com/micro/EquityVix/VXAPL/

core principles of volatility. you mean in a typical outright historical vol against implied vol in the most typical equations ...i think that is how we all are looking at it?

so everything Jessie said was worthless.....? that is not a good premise to discredit that quote..

awesome.. i trade options.. dipping into futures spreads... i hear corn alot..

commey.. haha

definitly read this.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_option knock out options.. pay out on touch of strike... read that then ask question

how far ahead of, or behind the trend in volatility is in the single issue compared to the index..comparing the trend in vol to the index's trend gives you a relative sense of how strong or weak a trend is relatively.. just another thing to confuse myself with.. :) does anyone use bollinger...

good for you.. don't get overconfident.. stick to your discipline.. its easy to think your a great trader when you do well.. but that doesn't make a great trader..

theoretical flat-vol...Numerically.. flat vol...skew=0 smile=0 . i'm going to read this thread and see if i can make sense of how this three put one call pitch fork translates into a good representation of dollar skew.. my first thought is.. that if flat vol is 0 dollars.. using the...

man when does this super cycle end and we can start back from 1000... haha

good for you man!

god the more i hear people talk and discuss direction. .the more i think its going to go nowhere! hah

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