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i trade ES, SPY, and SPX options.. Its more about position size to me.. thats more important to me.. I trade with IB and commissions are cheap as has been stated... if i'm going to calender spread i use SPX.. if i'm going for a 30 wide fly.. maybe ES .. a wider fly SPY... everything is...

not futures options.. and i understand the basis risk with futures options.. expiring contracts on expiring contracts... i'm actual spreading directly in the futures.. so i have a -dec13/+jan14, and a +feb14/-mar14... i've already learned my lesson good and well trading futures spreads...

i agree.. the issue has now become thrown in the middle of congress and the world to make a mess over.. now a bunch of posturing.. a bunch of hands on triggers.. I personally hope nothing becomes of this.. and not for the sake of my oil trades..

Yeah... taking a binary bet on politics... i'm pretty well hedged in CL futures spreads.. not to say a jet up to 130 wouldn't really really hurt.. i've got z3/f4/g4/h4 condors on and a z3/m4/z4 fly on..

i get that.. I'm sorry i typically think of the term "rich" as something you wanna sell... but here you were building the premise that a big move is gonna happen.. not that the actual premium is a good sale..

140 strike is deep out of the money! I'm a little confused.. you basically stated that vols were rich.. but its staging a breakout.. that seems a bit of a contradiction.. i'm in a few futures calender spreads.. i'm not quite sure if its safe to sell volatility here.. not attacking you just...

Why cap the gain... Just buy a put

tempers!

this is not new news.. better to post only significant stuff.. otherwise it just becomes noise.

i'm willing to bet. Obama doesn't use force..

Thanks... I googled it before I asked and didn't find it right away.. That explains it... Its retail order flow put/call ratio basically... I have enough information to look up the rest..

i'm sorry .. what is ISEE reading Mav?

crazy wick on the daily..

thats crazy madness.. good luck..

i can't imagine calls being cheap here..

you need to understand the nature of each structure. buying a call.. or buying soft deltas , as Mav put it.. soft because the delta position changes with time.. hard delta means delta one. or the underlying.. there is no advantage to going synthetic long as oppose to long the underlying...

a good solid break out of that consolidation to the upside.. in CL.. i'm in a few spreads.. i'm well hedged so everything is holding up great..

similar to when they said gold would go to 2000 dollars an ounce.. and apple to 1000 dollars.. that marked the top..

To me, i'd rather buy LEAPS on the index in market crashes, then play some routine selling of puts or CC type of strategy... Buying cheap premium is way overlooked to me..

taleb talks alot about convexity , and concavity .. something you should look into... these strategies your talking about are all concave in nature..