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I would call selling volatility equal to the selling of any option that still has vega.

I just want to post a quick hallelujah for someone pointing out that shorting puts naked is the same as covered calls. No one seems to remember this... ever. Also, it is a cheaper trade to make, only one transaction. And if you are required to hold enough cash to buy the stock should you get...

Sherman Oaks here. Working the night shift trading Eurex and have to say I prefer California time to Chicago.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I have to agree with what everyone else is saying on here. 15K is not nearly enough to start trading retail options and make any kind of decent living. If you can make a decent living doing it, then you must be some kind of guru with picking direction in which...

Hmmmm, my itchy sell finger thinks you are right Maestro, but I'm holding out for 410. Probably silly since I am an options trader... bond options at that, so I have no idea what I am doing trying to trade Google. Been right so far though.

Wow... I can't believe those professors wasted all of that time coming up with a study that I could have told them the results of in one phone call. Do the big players in the bund manipulate the futures market to maximize the returns on their options positions? Every single month. We call...

Thanks everybody! Steps in the right direction... I haven't had a chance to look at the ivolatility site during open hours yet. How often does it update and I would imagine that it is delayed. Hey riskarb, how would I use microhedge to get the floor vol numbers? It just looks like a...

Does anyone know where I could find out real-time volatility numbers from the floor of the 10 year options pit? Does Bloomberg have them? Is there a cheaper alternative? Thanks.

He's several hundred size up on the bid and the offer, only two ticks wide and on some strikes, only one tick wide. He is also seemingly impossible to pick off and seems to be able to absorb an almost unlimited amount of size. He has essentially become sole determiner of vol in the products...

Does anybody have any idea who the downloader is in the bund, bobl, dax, and e? He has practically eliminated volatility and I am just curious if he is just an extension of Paul Rotter or what? Any ideas?

Hey, does anybody know if there are any companies that will provide eurex access in Los Angeles? I don't know if this is even possible, but I am looking to move and looking to back myself, I just need access. If anybody could point me in the right direction that would be great.