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Being short a put means you are buying the stock at that strike. If your short call in ITM you could get assigned.

Ok, sorry, I must not have read that far back. All good.

What does the "fair" or "right" price matter when selling options? It is just because you are looking at selling the options all wrong. You are not selling the option, you are selling the premium not the option. When you look at it that way, its easier to see what are you doing when you are a...

Sometimes to get better fills on SPX IC you can leg into it. Do a call order and then a put order to leg into it. I usually go .05c below mid prices and get fills within a few minutes. Also if you are trading 10pt wide on SPX, try out RUT, there are more markets that RUT is traded on (SPX...

This is where we both differ. I am always long calenders not short so it gives me positive theta and vega. Also I do not have my short option in earnings months. I take the safe route in my trades. No more than 30-35% Imp. Vols on my trades. I am more of a range trader, not speculation on...

BS, a calender has a positive vega. At least ALL the calenders that I have are always positive vega. I buy the back month and sell the front month. Here look at my total position report in my attachment. You can see that I am talking about total overall portfolio vega hedging. I am not sure...

yep, its back now, i just closed out my butterfly, i dont want to play games with it. When it reopened for trading i was only down $10mill until the option prices adjusted

well i mean, they arnt going to do something really wild with the ETF, just halt if for a while then resume trading? Nothing like dropping to 5.00 or running to 20.00, I have a butterfly on this one so i guess i dont have to be to worried about it, just as long as its trading within 10days.

Does anyone know what this means for the price of UNG?

A tick chart or volume based chart.

So from what i am reading in your posts. You are wanting to trade these spreads more "speculative" 10 days till expiration and mostly playing volatilities? And you said neutral theta? Neutral detas? So basically are you betting on vols. Play vols is a hard thing to do especially around...

I know that you are paper trading right now but looking at your posistion: # AAPL STOCK QTY: -520 shares # Aug 09 145 Call QTY: -36 # Aug 09 155 Call QTY: +14 # Aug 09 180 Call QTY: +1 # Oct 09 145 Call QTY: +36 Is this realistic? Whenever you place real trades in your account with real...

Yep that is the way to do it. those less than 10 deltas are pretty safe drivers ;)

I look at trading options this way. Options are like insurance policies. You can either be the person buying the insurance, or your can be the insurance company selling the options. I prefer to be the insurance company in this case.

This is my first post back at ET in over 2 months and this guy is still here yelling "Buy Buy Buy"

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How are you going to sell options on expiration whenever there are no bids?

Yes, i agree, i was just using the year as an example to keep it simple for ppl.

I already know how to do it. MAX LOSS is my margin requirements.

1. Margin required is $12,000- premium sold on the put 2. (I am guessing you are buying at 100??) $10,000- the premium sold on the 120 call Max loss is how my broker always calculates margin requirements.