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putty man.. this is a good strategy for you.. maybe you know when you get put the stock.. you could do this.. that way you don't expose yourself to further downside like Atty stated... Costless Collar Construction Long 100 Shares Sell 1 OTM LEAPS Call Buy 1 ATM LEAPS Put <a...

ok.... now for one.. i would like to say.. Put_Master aka puddy man.. has been trying to say the same thing for a while... and there is not one person that doesn't get what your saying..... Obviously if anyone is unaware of the risk of ruin in putting all your money up to cover the...

that link sounds like a party of people that think they have found a product to make up for their lack of trading skills.. Ask yourself this.. why do institutions put out new products? transaction fees.. follow the money... either learn to make markets in binary options .. be a vol trader or...

Ok .. what does it mean to "throw off money" after a crash.. . make sense of that for me please.... is the idea if your shorting the futures term structure.. your long the front month.. or even the vxx or vixy.. then your short the farther out ... vxx gives you a static position in the...

your right i feel it in my gut to... not sure if im anchoring or if covered calls till vol goes up makes any sense or just a flat exit at a lossmis the best.. im actually long at 32. i sold 34 striked puts for 2.20 Recieved the shares and then realized after research how much more the...

What you say relates relates.. i see i will check you in the future for further definitions haha what your saying is obvious though a five wide strike on a 15 dollar stock is obviously different then one on a 50 dollar stock... or is it cause you havent consodered the volatility. The...

I read that post... I get it... your happy with your views on all thepeople that trade different strategies and how you trade your short puts on well researched companies

OK how about I post a trade I take for real... or that I am about to take... tune in or not... but I'll be weighing strategies just like I described

ya thats a way to play the vxx against itself.. but then your betting on continued corrolation which from what i hear is pretty consistant. i'm long the Vixy... not much different but i'm not short anything .. it hurts a little right now .. but i'm not sweating it.. vol of vol is high enough...

i get the first part.. but not the second.. as usual for Atty.. what about Long VXX and short futures?

just wanted to pipe in here to NT.. love the platform i've used it myself.. i used my data provider.. which was Interactive brokers.. there are alot of different attributes about data that you should become aware of.. tick data seems expensive.. but they give you a ton of information and you pay...

because people if they actually calculated the cost of carry on a vxx trade might actually be attracted to the hedge it can create... hey it might be ambigiuos and have a huge tracking error and a big cost of carry.. but in some cases i'm sure it makes sense.. plus when it does start rising the...

no a real situation.. like a stock.. or etf or commodity.. and its related options.. as of right now.. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=247082

just because me and Put_master aka Putty man always seem to get into a discussion about his speculation of what the majority of "spread traders" do .. haha just messing with.. no but seriously that has spawned a relatively intellectual conversation about what is best and when.. sooo that being...

i have no idea really .. but convex and concave payoff structures are way more interesting.. but someone with knowledge should pipe in..

you know what Putty man.. i must say we sure agree about everything and yet like to discuss everything in a slightly argumentative way.. you gotta love that ..hah... its not that i don't usually get what your saying.. sometimes i get confused and think your saying something a little different...

by scalping you mean your long vol dynamic hedging .. and by short vol excellent hedge and quiet markets absorb vol spike hits.. you mean so far so good... adding profits from quiet markets to absorb vol spike hits makes sense untill it doesn't.. I don't think anyone could say that vol is...

my opinion is as follows.. just to be explicit for the record... if your selling a options spread.. you better know your underlying and its related volatilities.. for example one would need to answer these set of questions.. or shall i say.. I WOULD. 1. does the spread pay well...

what do you mean? what are you talking about.... are you saying that a 5 wide striked spread on a 15 dollar stock has different risk then on a 50 dollar stock?

that makes sense.. and in what case would that typically happen .. and what would one do to hedge against that?