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    When to close a short option position to maximize the return from premium decay?

    this is a very good point.... if you can get half way through a game and be up on your opponent and get 80 percent of the winnings.. your expected return is higher quitting then.. my point as risk changes it doesn't go away.. trading credit spreads condors and the like are very good for...
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    Synthetic market and conversions/reversals

    personally just the knowledge of static replication is an asset...... going from the beginning of starting to dynamically neutralize different risks such as delta , vol, gamma, all the way to exposing yourself to only interest rate changes with static replication.. if anything i've learned...
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    Volatility Trading

    i've read most of this.. skimming over some things and reading somethings five times.. alot of good stuff... some basic rules of thumb in there that are really good... being short vol is no different then being long equity risk... good paper
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    best options to trade against Eur.usd..

    yes.. and thats fine.. Generally speaking dealing with exposure is just the topic.. i was planning on selling puts on a Euro ETF to reduce my upside exposure on the short Euro trade i have on... but i'm learning ... so all this is good.. i have yet to make money trading currency.. i tend to...
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    More shadiness from George Zimmerman

    Excuse me i said nothing about black gangsters.... and the fact that you said that makes me realize what kind of conversation your capable of having with someone about this matter. Use your energy more wisely. Your feeding on negative energy. let it go.... if Trayvon is not your family then...
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    Intraday Candlestick Patterns

    thats good stuff.. i've read alot of books on the matter as well.. done more volatility / options trading then outright directional.. but i'll tell you.. negation is better then confirmation... because you'll see whatever you want in the randomness.. one thing i see is alot of guys usually...
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    best options to trade against Eur.usd..

    i really don't get what all this complexity adds to the picture.. is this really a grand neutral trading strategy... i don't get it.. whats the theory behind all this.. my thoughts initially are about the ability to continuously hedge options in currency.. less jump risk.. but its intriguing...
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    More shadiness from George Zimmerman

    you should listen to the way you speak... your English is terrible.. your spelling of suspicion is way off... here "And the school not have to tell the guardian" "parent who say the student" "my grandfather want to know who say" "the person to say my brother is suspicious not have to go"...
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    best options to trade against Eur.usd..

    Your pair trading baskets of peripheries against reserve currencies in some grand view with some mean reversion in your favor?
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    best options to trade against Eur.usd..

    If you were anyone else old time I'd be pissed that you high jacked my thread ;)
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    best options to trade against Eur.usd..

    Margin wise.. it has to be settled in the underlying to reduce margin requirements.... Eur.USD has no options that are directly settled in it I don't think. Either way. I think xde will suffice..
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    best options to trade against Eur.usd..

    Well if your trading a currency against the USD a etf that's cash settled I think would work.... like xde or fxe .. think about it.... yes anyone know please chime in
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    best options to trade against Eur.usd..

    Sure your basket trading with your views.... to disperse your single currency risk... but what about my question
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    VIX fly / spread journal

    I'd love to hear how SLE would position in front of this kind of situation
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    best options to trade against Eur.usd..

    Yea... I know their are risk currencies and different plays... I'm just wondering if anyone plays options amongst their positions
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    Carey's Journal

    Cause I think in the end of this spike I wanna be long equity risk even if this is the beginning of a lot of selling..and I believe this sensationalized cliff will get resolved. . What's your play
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    When to close a short option position to maximize the return from premium decay?

    well put.. adding to that.. closer to the money options and ATM experience the most theta decay near expiration at the direct increasing gamma risk.. the risk changes it doesn't decrease.. thats a common flaw in thinking..
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    When to close a short option position to maximize the return from premium decay?

    gamma risk pays theta.. theta costs gamma... for simplicity take out all real world assumptions....
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    ES Journal - 2012

    thanks Ammo... i need to read up on Market profile.. i actually remember asking you about it before..
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