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Murray, When you display your returns on the DD's and calendars, I believe you discuss return on margin. Do you also analyze returns on your overall equity base as well? I seem to consume very little margin (little kahunas) with options so I only analyze my returns on a total account...

The problem is that the spread is a credit and a long put is a debit. Credits are addictive. :)

Riskarb, Assuming you wanted to play a large move in GOOG as Coach did, how would you have made that trade? k

This butterfly looks like a nice complement to the creditspreads. If the markets go nowhere, the butterfly has a manageable loss but the creditspreads payoff.