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Buy the rumor. Sell the news. Oil back to $60.00.

Limit Orders can be filled at a better price than what you enter.

SPY at 266.70 SPY May09 2018 266.500 call - ask at $0.85 SPY May09 2018 266.500 put - ask at $0.79 Expires tomorrow

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Priceline Group now Booking Holdings Inc. (BKNG)

I think holding a short option order overnight is too risky. The stock moves against you for the order to get filled.

In this case you have to close the position before expiry. Take the profit. Next time reconsider debit spreads - is the short option worth it? IMO ..... no. If the idea behind a debit spread is to reduce the dollar risk it might be better to move the long option 1-strike further OTM - buy...

I don't see how you can compare a 100% loss to a 30% loss - as if the 30% is better. What is important is the risk:reward in dollars.

Why not?

A 100% loss and 30% loss are identical losses in dollars.

Yes ....... to the 100% loss of the debit paid for the options.

The debit you pay is the stop loss.

No more of a gamble than any other option strategy.

Kirill Tereshin - 21 year old from Russia.

Even an order of 2 contracts on high volume option contracts such as GOOGL, AMZN, TSLA at the respective bid/ask can be split into 2 and filled one contract at a time seconds apart. I have had that happen a few times through BMO Investorline. Perhaps by the time I hit enter the bid/ask as...

ET did lose a major long time sponsor. A sponsor I thought would always advertise on ET. I wonder why they left?

Iron Condors would be the way to go. Sell 1-strike OTM calls and puts. Buy a few strikes OTM calls and puts. The Risk:Reward ratio isn't so bad - and your maximum loss is capped.

Very vague post. Could you be more specific?

How does Lightspeed handle those sort of situations better than other brokers such as IB?

The market moves in odd and mysterious ways.