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Someone must have slipped it some elephant juice

What is your view of how this would profit?

Yeah but Murphy makes sure that all your's do. [/tongue in cheek] :D

Murphy's Law states that your stocks suddenly acquire more beta on the downside though. Not relevant, but just one of those things. :p

1/ Yes 2/ No

:( I obviously have to lift my game. :D

You limit risk to $5 But you exchange one sort of risk for another, measured by the Greeks.

Why? It's just the synthetic of what you already have. :confused: PS - If you don't want the shares, roll the options out/up/down/whatever or just exit.

If there were a smooth-continuous trajectory upwards, with the underlying always conveniently atm or just otm at expiry, it may be possible. However, the reality of a non linear trajectory (even if the stock is in an uptrend) often intervenes to snatch real and potential $$$ straight off the...

What? But.... but... I can make 4-5% per month according to the gurus! They wouldn't lie... would they? :p :p

zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz pffft

1/ Please do not insult our intelligence. 2/ No.

This is a fallacy. 85% of options do not expire worthless. Have a look here for the true figures http://sigmaoptions.blogspot.com/2009/07/90-of-options-expire-worthless.html

I'm probably not the only one that is finding your vendetta against this poster extremely tiresome. Move on FFS.

Only if you're a pleb. The rules are different for GS et al :mad:

The Big O might have it, they used to do it for nix. But may be subscription only now. $GVZ will still be a reasonable proxy otherwise the arb boys would have a go at it. $0.02

This was a big argument on here some time ago with some of the clowns at "The Big O". You lose the up front cost of carry on the vertical. Depending on the life of the spread left if this happens, it's not a huge amount and only realized if the collar is exited. Also as Spindr0 points out...

I have the definitive answer to this question... ... but you'll have to wait till expiry day - I'll let you know then. :cool:

Because instant experts get flamed here. :D

Why not just pay $5 -$7k for a weekend seminar and become an instant expert? :p