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paulson and soros are big players..

haha.... i love your positive attitude... "buyout at 23"

Best thing is rip.down options history as it happens on the names u follow... do analytics in your spare time

Those all sound like a great reason for it to sustain...most of the risk to me is still down.. and premium is cheap... so to me its not about which direction but which has the best payoff if right.

Like a lot of people have said before Why not trade the futures directly

That's a perfect summary

you know and the only real strategy that really interests me at earnings.. is playing the bomb drop.. deep otm puts on a momentum stock disaster..

the what i said wasn't stated correclty... what i was trying to say was the projected move/implied volatility of the options hold off the loss from time and you can expose yourself to gamma that way... . i read what i wrote earlier and it does not make any sense haha.. your long delta and...

this is a strategy i've been touting for a while.. i'm glad someone is finally listening.. thanks Hedgeman.. this is actually a liquidity function strategy for market makers as well.. obviuosly if they are getting a little better action on the bid and asks they have an advantage then us.. if...

what would cause the market to break through these prior highs.. thats what i 'm trying to figure out... of course complete irrationality is always a viable reason.. hey if people wanna own dollar denominated assets.. it can cause an extended over pricing of equities

i get what all of your guys are saying... but because of all the speculative position taking before earnings prices swing due to the constant delta hedging of market makers.. thats just my speculation i invite you to correct me.. but i think what i was trying to say is exactly what Racoon...

read the overview.. the http://www.proshares.com/funds/uvxy.html its a super short term roll on the futures.. meaning that they are constantly rolling there long position in the short term futures contract into the next term.... because of the term structure of futures.. there is a roll cost...

i use Zend framework... its way awesome for Rapid application development.. and alot of people know the methodology behind it and such.. its alot like ruby on rails.. fusbox cfwheels.. etc.. etc.. http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.cache.theory.html why reinvent the wheel is what...

Nassim Taleb uses the Turkey analogy.. . getting easy feed isn't always agood thing :)

remember people.. i'm not saing that education is worthless... with the billions of comments about the outright "school is worth it try to get a job without one"" kind of thing... its like anything else... do everything you can to get ahead.. increase you probability... but if you think...

dangerous markets are perfect for options... IE outright premium strangles. .. ratios backspreads etc..... nothing like a stock or instriment getting cut in half when you have a good put backspread on..

I'd look for some crazy pessimissm and buy some leaps. . fuck the stock..

i would think that csco would be a good butterfly canidate for earnings... they end up having mild moves at earnings.. i just would profile the stocks that are expected to really move at earnings and do the impilied vol ballon pre earnings trade on them... are you looking at any of these...

i'm kind of thinking you guys think i'm such a noob i don't understand options enough to realize that buying premium strategies are time limited. .... like thats the most obvious thing you first learn... theta burn... you can get it neutralized, you can get it working in your favor... and you...

The uvxy is long the back month short the front? right... its a term structure play?