Thank you for everyone's Replies , That makes a lot of since now
So are there actual way that we as Traders could Go Long or Short the various Weather conditions ?
Trade Futures on them ?
Trade Options on them ?
I just saw these Indexes on AmpFutures website, and was wondering if Anyone trades either of these Two Indexes, and if they are Liquid enough to trade ?
Thanks so much
How do you & or would you ever want to trade the " Weather " ...... Frost, Hurricane, RainFall, SnowFall, Temperature?
I just now saw this on the CME website, and am curious as to how you would trade these ?
Thanks
Good Evening,
I am wondering if there is a way to filter my searches down , to only Stocks whose OTM Options have Gammas of say .... .10 and up ?
Thank you for the help
I am looking at OTM Options as a Possibility on Buying ourtight Long Puts on the Big Banks " If " the Economy crashes ( Similiar/worse to 2008 is projected ), and want to have an Idea as to what type of Profit I can make on these OTM ( say .10 - .15 Delta OTM Option Strikes, at the time I...
I need to go back through the Basics of Options , cause I for the life of me can not remember the following ..... When does an OTM Option begin to make money ? Is it once the Stock Exceeds the Strike price of the OTM option OR will that OTM option begin making Money AS SOON AS the stock...
Maverickz,
Can you please give a real world example of how this would work via trading Options Spreads..... I.E. the ZERO Loss way in which your strategy works.
I love Options and spreads as well ..... Just trying to make sure I understand the way in which to set myself u for a Worse Case...
I looked up BackSpreads last night.
This might be the exact Strategy I'm looking for ( so Long as it's " cheaper " to do the BackSpread vs an Outright Log Call or Put ..... Stock/it's Options dependent
Regarding BackSpreads..... Is there a quick and easy way that I can plug in the Strike...
Profit when a Big Break or Break down occurs, via being able to close out part of the Spread, and Hold an outright Long Call or Put to capture max Upside or Downside ?
For Example:
Lets say XYZ stock is trading at $70
And based on my analysis , I am predicting XYZ to make a BIG move to...
Thank ya'll both for your replies.
K-Pia ..... So in my example for the 10 Year with a move from 129.10 to 129.39 ,
would the calculation be as followed ..... 19 x $15.62 x 1 contract = $296.78 ?
Thank you for the help
I need some help please in how to calculate the Profit ( and Loss ) calculations for the 10 year, 5 year and 2 year Futures please
Say the 10 year moves from 129.10 to 129.39 = ?
The 5 year moves from 120.20 to 120.43 = ?
The 2 year moves from 108.90 to 109.10 = ?
I'm just...
Handle123 .... Thank you so much for the Links and information regarding using Barchart.com for the link to each markets Options
Wondering if you can please help me with understanding the P/L associated with the way in which Barchart lists the Financials ( Bonds and T-Notes )
Take for Instance...
Handle123,
Do you mean to buy ATM options of the SPY or SPX when Long the ES ?
GDX ATM options for GOLD
USO for Crude Oil
UNG for Natural Gas
My main question though is ...... How could we Hedge positions in the Grains and Softs via using Options ?
Are there Liquid Stocks/Options to Hedge...
2rosy or anyone else,
can you please give an example as to the following.... ( Using
implied vol to calculate std and then finding a strike )
Thanks for the help
Thank you everyone for your replies
Handle123 ,
I really like the following statement that you made..... " Take a 9 year chart and you can tell where the extremes have been and taking comparison of current price to past will show you possible extremes. "
Also, you mentioned that you too like...