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A few weeks ago you sold a 185/190 credit call spread - OTM at the time. AAPL closed at $188.59 on expiry day. ITM short 185 calls auto exercised - 100 AAPL shares sold at $185.00. OTM long 190 calls expired worthless. Monday morning buy 100 AAPL shares.

The majority of ET option threads, including this one, are not related to investing. They are about speculative short term option trades. Those sort of trades do not require a great deal of knowledge about the company. Market volatility and being a tech favorite is key.

I don't know ...... I haven't been following the electric cars. I'm more interested in TSLA options. But I do know that Automobile gasoline fires are surprisingly rare.

Depends on when the trade is opened, the strikes chosen and expiry dates.

Automobile gasoline fires are surprisingly rare.

Add Walmarts house brand to the blind test - Great Value Olive Oil I like a lot of the Great Value products.

$10,000 controlling $40,000 worth of stock. It isn't sitting in your account doing nothing.

I specialize in buying OTM weekly options on AAPL, GOOGL, AMZN, TSLA, FB , NFLX and QQQ.

Edge is a favorite buzzword among some of the posters on ET. It is meaningless.

This is the the most plausible explanation. The margin you see is just an indication of the margin required to keep the trade open - you are not being charged interest on it. Foreign exchange is settled in one day.

Yes One day

Steve Ballmer - A unique Billionaire Didn't inherit his wealth. Didn't marry into wealth. Is not a co-founder or founder of a company. Any other Billionaires like him?

Pitch your idea on: Shark Tank

One week at a time young "grasshopper".

And since most of the SPY pre-expiry moves have been up it might be best to buy only the ATM calls.

TSLA at 306.85. Maybe not tomorrow ... but by next Friday May 18 TSLA could easily reach $320.00. Low or high volume - it doesn't matter.

Below is plus/minus over 1% on expiry day - not including today. SPY ATM straddles/strangles entered one day before expiry would end up losing over the year.

You could download 1 year of SPY quotes and check how many times SPY closed greater than +/- $1.80 on Wednesdays and Fridays - option expiry day. SPY Historical Dara

Bid on the SPY May09 2018 266.500 call is $3.06

This TSLA thread was one of three earnings trades I posted BEFORE earnings. The other two were FB and AAPL. April 30 AAPL April 25 FB