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    Options and the elections

    A war is good.... Americans are spoiled and need to throw some innocence into the flames of war to extinquish their poisonous guilt..... nothing straightens out the world like someextreme calamity.... look how united we were after 911
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    Best option position for downside bias

    What's the ticker and timeframe.....
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    Best option position for downside bias

    I hate generalizing about strats on a ghost ticker...... what's the ticker..... dont think naming it on et is gonna blow the trade
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    Options and the elections

    i think macro winds play such a huge part in money flows around the world.. elections are keeping things on hold...... political risk in the market... i think more of energy, inflation, money supply, fiscal policy... think Romney will tighten up and stop the bleeding? if so do you think the...
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    atticus' "ship it" vol trading journal

    might be like a run and gun 1987 war game.... haha
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    Best option position for downside bias

    short calls went up in the 87 crash.... guys lost money .. i read that somewhere.. implieds went through the roof.. causing the calls to go up in value... i'd rather just outright be long vol on a downturn.. of course your talking a single ticker though.. what ticker are you talking about...
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    Best option position for downside bias

    how does that relate? buying whole life would be like buying a put? whole life would be more like a knock out option to me.. hahha payout on touch.. the touch of death..
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    Best option position for downside bias

    Short calls your short convexity... all the downside without the unlimited upside... we get a crash calls could actually go up in value relatively.... puts are the way
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    Best option position for downside bias

    to me i think timing is everything as to what you use.. of course if was going down 50% next week.. i'd say buy penny otm puts.. if its going in the next couple months and you have a target.. i'd be doing a otm fly... i'm probably not the best to give you advice but i'm just brainstorming...
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    Carey's Journal

    sold this for 41.10... cumulatively i made a little money on earnings considering the broken wing fly.. i can't hate it.. realistically if they would have beat earnings with the way the stock behaved after hours on the miss.. i would have think there would have been a really good jump up.. so...
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    on the money option

    Did I hear you right... if you bought calls you have rights not obligations.... if you sold the call you could get assigned on a strike pin not if you bought
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    Transaction costs (commission)

    http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=commission&p=options-default United States - Smart Routed: <=10,000 Monthly Contracts Example Commissions Minimum Per Order Premium => USD 0.10 USD 0.70 per contract min. USD 1.00 USD 0.05 =< Premium < USD 0.10 USD 0.50...
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    Transaction costs (commission)

    whose that/
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    Transaction costs (commission)

    i have an account with think or swim just to check out the platform.. the commissions are so high its not worth the trouble.. i have several accounts i trade and they wanted to see last months statements to lower the commissions.. whats the point.. to be able to use their platform that looks...
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    AAPL: Buying the Dips!

    Short index long aapl is my call.... apple has under performed and index has over performed
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    Is the etf CORN okay for long term holding?

    Delta drift.....The skew lays down as time passes putting harm on the ratio.. Making the farther otm options lose faster then the closer to the monies...thats one risk... Next is delta.... If you slowly approach the short strike it hurts and you lose delta quick....but other then outright...
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    AAPL: Buying the Dips!

    780-820... im offering binarys payung even money on a 650 touch
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    AAPL: Buying the Dips!

    A 550 knockout bet can not be a push... Either happens or it doesnt
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    Bread & Butter Iron Condors

    Options safari is dan looking jacked up from sports betting.
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    Is the etf CORN okay for long term holding?

    its a 1 by 2 in the same series....... selll a close to the money call and buy 3 otm calls as an example..... any ratio of selling less closer to the money then the otms you buy... commodities etfs are for the birds
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