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    Bread & Butter Iron Condors

    i'm a consumer of their products.. so i'm a natural short in their business.. IE like commodities.. They are long their products i'm short them.. I get long that caffine in the morninn! haha
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    Conservative Options Trades

    hes got 73 days on the trade.. which is 365/73 equals only 5 spreads a year.. holy simple math! haha
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    Credit spread - deep otm - false sense of security?

    ok ok ok ... stick to one way of calling it... Naked means leveraged shorting puts on margin.... Cash secured means something different... you mix the two alot.. no big deal though... Buy writes are a limited profit profile.. you often time cap the long runs in the market as a result of your...
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    treasure TLT

    true.. short bonds seems to me like my long term investment.. thats why i'm long call ratio backspreads on the TBT... enables me the largest room for error
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    Good options daytrading stocks...

    do it to it... i'll have to look at ES options.. so i can do a little day trading.. i have some strategies i can use for a quick small percent on limited risk flys and such ..
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    Conservative Options Trades

    Should be 30 on 200. Its a two strike spread. That's only 15 percent. Your realizing a return on the amount put up... not and the credit .
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    I have cranked on one of those befoee
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    Bread & Butter Iron Condors

    Well I'm a gold card holder ... getting 2 to 3 refills a day for free putting each cup at about an average of .94 cents. :). I love sbux
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    Bread & Butter Iron Condors

    Obama is getting back in office and the vol will begin
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    treasure TLT

    why not the TBT?
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    Good options daytrading stocks...

    Gotta love some bidu... A friend of mine made 500 percent in that stock by buying it and then he started trading options expiration on it lost thousands on it... the funny thing is he told me in order to play in options you have to have deep pockets.. i'm thinking.. yeah.. because one...
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    Good options daytrading stocks...

    deliberately keep less in.. hmmm.. are you short so much vol it could more then blow ya out in that account? haha jk.. i wanna trade options on vix futures to be honest..
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    Bread & Butter Iron Condors

    ahhh seems like summer doldrums to me... i hear retail investors talking about waiting till after the election.. i've always heard institutions don't trade much in the summer.. i've heard the fall is typically more volatile.. and i've also heard a hell of alot of retail type investors talk about...
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    Looking for Pro firm

    dude wow.. i'm not familiar with any part of this kind of prop.. leveraging of traders risk capital.. but its cool as hell how you can't just advertise without scrutiny on ET.. love it.. Devil is in the details as they say.. if a deal is to good to be true.. keep reading the details.. and i...
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    this is an interesting Area to post.. i wanna tell you guys a little bit about myself

    I figured what the hey.. the best way to learn about who you are is to put it down on paper.. so heres my paper... maybe i'm fit to my strategy.. maybe i don't have a strategy.. maybe everything is so ambiguous its hard to say what i'm doing or what i'm not.. but this is me.. I'm 34 year old...
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    Good options daytrading stocks...

    NOTHING is easy to navigate.. close your eyes till all you can see is blurry light.. thats about all you can know.. haha half kidding.. aapl is just another high priced strike crosser thats all.. Goog is another..
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    Conservative Options Trades

    Yield = 30/170 = 17.6% in 73 days or 88.2% annualized i never really thought on a 2 dollar spread to caculate return this way.. i mean sure if you get blown out you still keep the credit.. so you can't ever loose the credit but still... i always did the credit amount against the difference...
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    Credit spread - deep otm - false sense of security?

    yeah.. thats kind scalping front month against back month.. short put same as covered call ... married put same as long call.. etc.. etc.. i've thought about doing some back month long from month overwrites and delta hedge when needed with buy stops.. never heard anyone talk about that...
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    PCLN straddle

    haha babu time.. haha hold on i gotta read some of this guys threads.. no thats not me..
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    Trading Long Straddles

    this is what is confusing me.. you say i'm selling a debit spread... doesn't make sense.. your putting on the spread for a debit.. or your buying a debit spread.. debit means its coming out of your pocket.. credit means your getting credit. in your pocket.. you sell credit spreads.. buy...
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