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ya it goes without saying.. there is no mean... no magical point to sell or buy vol

you prefer bleeding to being long or short vol of being long or short the underlying... i'm having a hard time making sense of that?

yeah but theres really no such thing is "Neutral" your always in the water in one way or another... your either cash and bleeding from inflation, or your long or short vol to some degree.. at least thats the way it seems.. even when your not making a decision to trade you have made a decision...

how many people admit their own blow ups... ?!!@ really.. so many ways to cut your own throat out there..

whose got flys on? i've got none.... not sure if things are going to move swiftly or not.. i like the drifty no where goingness into expiration...

i'm officialliy not going to respond in a negative way to peoples posts... i'm just going to stick to being positive and help if i can.... and let the interest of others spark ideas of my own... my sub account with IB is up , funding and read to trade.. i think i'm going to wire a couple...

i'm pretty sure OI only sometimes has an effect ... but just from some feedback and readings... it seems randomness has such an effect that even if OI does have a little bit of an effect.. Randomness will blow out those effects often enough for them to be hard to exploit... So i look at...

if their risk management team doesn't catch it.. and the option gets assigned... its on them to make up the difference for the money that you don't have in your account to cover the stock.. thats just not going to happen... this all falls back into broker risk.... there are many things that can...

What's the %.f for?

I'm wildly reckless and super leveraged... that's me

I agree with that totally.. but you can make money trading flys on the weeklies

Your really just painting your typical graffiti about credit spreads... just more slander and no insight from a guy who doesn't know anything about trading spreads

for me.. i've thought so many times with apple... sell a put credit spread... binary on a beat.. they usuually beat... its hard as hell predicting how well the pricing is right for earnings... the better move has been to trade directly after earnings .or. buy vol a week or two prior.. i'm going...

most of the traders i've seen that have shown a good track record are completely out several weeks before expiration.. either when they have 80 percent of their profit or they have the N number of days to expire.. and N number of days is always more then three weeks.. Managing gamma risk...

ok just for the record... i asked this question to Interactive brokers a while back..... just as if a butterfly is deep ITM or OTM there is no closing trade required... you lose all the money you bought the spread for.. and boom all the rights and obligations take care of themselves and your...

lower volume with higher OI and options trades out there would cause the closing options trades to have more influence...but from what i've read and as well what my intuition tells me any Market maker is gonna hedge with other options and only use the underlying when they have to.. or at least...

I think he was saying he can't execute. Not that he doesn't have an edgwe

Haha. No such thing this is just about a theoretical deal.. not real

Ever trade that gold volatility instrument

No you don't have to close it if it blows the line.. you let it expire worthless and lose the five bills..