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z/m or z/z looks good to me right now..

long the calender means your long farther out then you are short.. just in with options.. short the calender would me your long in the front leg of your spread.. in this case yes i'm short nov long dec

Always such good contribution.......I remember the first time i started learning about options... at that point i became literally fascinated with them. I think if nothing else it gave me a better dimension on life to be honest.. One thing i can say is you can express your self in only two...

i've had these for what seems like weeks.. + SLD 1 ES AUG 16 '13 - (2) 1650 + (1) 1700 + (1) 1600 Put Combo 15.00 USD GLOBEX 03:19:01 OptTrader 5.68 in at 13 , out today at 15 had a limit order get filled on the sell off..

butterfly... take a position on distribution and derive profit from short gamma.... meaning your putting bounds on the distribution.. or just believe the underlying is going to trade in a range.. or take a + or - delta position with the fly to express a directional bias.. all this along...

sometimes i am just amazed at the kind of help you can get from this site..

i'm not sure about all that .. but i'm long the x/z 2013 cal..

there is a fundamental difference between calender spreads in futures as oppose to equities.. the risks are very different... as many times the options are on different contracts within the same instrument.. where as a stock option of any calender month is derived from just one place.. the stock..

+1

i'm long u/v from -.80 , i held as it went up to 108 and the spread was at -1.10

takes a certain emotional strength to trade like you do... I'd just ignore him.... I would be shocked if you were on here for as long as you have posting and you weren't making money in the long run... I would bet against most people on this forum instead of you.. just my opinion..

looks like a opportunity to stab short... not to aggressive on this one.. + BOT 1 ES AUG 16 '13 - (2) 1650 + (1) 1700 + (1) 1600 Put Combo 13.00 USD GLOBEX 16:00:59 puts my neutral to 1650...

What constitutes your short signal on the ES.

thats a risk reversal, and in no way an arb, just fyi

i have to be able to visualize something.. VA seems like a container marked to be filled by a snapshot of the vix at a particular time, then the container sort of starts getting filled up by the day to day variance, the futures are the market price of the variance remaining after each day...

+ SLD 1 ES AUG 02 '13 + 1750 Call - 1700 Put - 1700 Call + 1650 Put Combo -22.50 out from -25.25 in my favor.. held two +2.75 * 50 multiplier I don't really prescribe to either school at this level.. sure its going to move, and when it does i don't wanna be neutral to 1700

plenty of opinions going around..

i wonder if the margin is considerably better comparatively to vix futures.. now that vix futures are 5x what they were

always plenty of different opinions..

dumped all my short delta.. hopefully i get no whipsaw in this one.. iron fly long delta neutral to 1700 + BOT 1 ES AUG 02 '13 + 1750 Call - 1700 Put - 1700 Call + 1650 Put Combo -25.25 USD GLOBEX 15:27:01 OptTrader 5.68 null