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Jmhunter re:So whats a good strategy to take advantage of the dwindling premium while also taking advantage of the sliding price? as you expect the stock to decrease and want to take advantage of theta decay, I would suggest an OTM put calendar. maybe a Dec11/Jan12 22 or 23 put calendar...

bc1 you primarily only mention commission rate in your posting which tells me you might not be doing multi leg trades yet. as commission structure is only one factor in chosing a brokerage,things like the brokerage platform ability to set up multi leg trades, the "analytics" the platform...

Galvinlee888 re:Below is one of the christmas gift: Buy the Iwm butterfly for Nov long 72(x1), 76 (x1), short (x2) 74 - you can use either call or put, whichever you can fill up with the cheapest. Max profit when IWM=74 by next Thursday. For today price: risk/reward is about 1/4...

re:"The most conservative options income strategy is probably calendar spreads, sell an ATM call or put about 40 days out and buy the same strike price the following month. This strategy takes advantage of theta (time decay), and your risk is limited to basically what you pay for the calendar...

Optionsoptions re:I trade options for couple years now. But I am trying to look for ways to practically trade options. Some kind of trade plan. For instance when so and so technical signals occur, enter into xyz options strategy. Practical ways to trade options. Is there any book that...

Madbrain for the expectation of achieving only 3-7% a year, you're not gain any particular edge by trading "safer option strategies". I'm a very active options trader and I wouldn't even bother to trade options if I had the relative low risk tolerance you have. there are Energy master...

bwolinsky re:"Black Scholes will give you all the greeks you can want, but knowing them does not help you trade. I've never seen the technology to do this and properly research the process for optimal execution. In my opinion if you're doing things like that manually then it is only...

There are apparently some of you in this thread that want to restrict yourself to trading directionally. as long as you are making $$$$ doing that, that's the main thing yet the fact is that for those who are wiling to invest some time, study and labor to understand the different option...

Bwolinsky (I noticed that you've been registered on this website since 2008 and have posted over 400+ times? in various forums on here) after all this time, you submit this posting(over 7 paragraphs), wondering why some traders will put on a strangle, butterfly or iron condor when "as far...