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what determines your ratio? you got a 3 to 5 on one.. and a 4 to 5 on the other with the intent to add more.. legging in i guess? just curious...

nice.. when i first started trading options.. i got hooked on earnings and quickly realized it made sense to trade the pre earnings vol run up.. but i just never did.. good for you... i'm so curious about what the post earnings perspective on vol and trading is.

i mean he could be like the guy that got some disease and is so angry at the world he is trying to spread it around with his "totally awesome" ideas on stocks.. punching out stock purchase ideas on the daily.. if your gonna buy a stock that has went on a run up.. is there any statistical...

putty man i love how you have made such a big stink out of this... your totally right on.. haha you determined to take it to no end.. gotta love your persistance.. you can ratio back spread on stocks you own.. and if you end up between the strikes at opex you can just take more stock if you...

this is what i've learned from reading all the market making books i could put my hands on.. which isn't all of them.. but i do have a conceptual idea of what market makers are always trying to do with their book... MM (market makers) provide a liquidity function to the market.. this entire...

Gotta love the weather there.. unless your in the Valley.. i'm always out in LA.. best friend lives there.. I actually trade his account..

that makes the most sense i've heard so far... you can sort of make a blanket statement about commissions like that.. I did extensive research on it when i was shopping brokerages.. They couple expensive commissions with better trading platforms.. IE Tos.. Tradestation... I went with Interactive...

dark pool sounds cool.. near heard that word used before

seems like the spy hasn't been able to get very far through 1400.. and your thinking it might be different this time?

would it make any sense to trade staddles with stocks that are parabolic or setting all time new highs... you know usually this is when the instriment either drops like a rock.. or gets tweeked out going up and then drops like a rock... you know buy a straddle .. leg out if you have enough...

Wow if that's the case rocky That's cheap

How long you been trading these

Looking for jumps at opex

You mean in the after market your shorting it?

Goog has had some upside earnings blow outs.. But i somethings think of goog as the exception to the run.. They game the analysis they don't give projections if i'm correct? Like do they give guidence? From a quick look up seems like i'm right.. Which without any inside information for...

at the six hundred strike 2 bucks.. turns into twenty in the morning.. you can bet alot more of those then you can straddles and be wrong... besides.. i'd probably only buy puts.. it seems like to me most of the time when things really go crazy outta implieds predictions its down..

btw.. i didn't mean to freak out on ya... its just the only thing that seems right to me about trading.. so i feel strongly about it ..

i come blaring out about that stuff.. partly cause i think i hate my formal education.. that tells me things are smooth predictable reliable.. and everything they teach you is useful in the real world of business.. BULLSHI7 HAHA. just get an education... take out of few loans if you need...

i was sniffing around.. found this article... read it .. its good http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-CBOE-binary-options-market-illiquid-large-bid-ask-spreads-low-volumes after reading it.. you might think to yourself... is my broker acting as my market maker? Interactive broker has its...

what is "OP" in these cases.. i keep thinking about trying penny options at every momentum pretty girl stocks that seem to tumble down after one or two misses.. the amount of strikes these things cross is incredible.. GMCR.. NFLX and priceline might be next.. look at CMG.. same deal there..