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I am newer to option trading and have been doing bear call spreads on equities but would like to switch to indices as a result of the reduction of unsystematic risk. The weeklys (specifically SPX) caught my interest and I have been paper trading them for a few weeks now before I got live with...

While looking at the company events page on yahoo it showed nothing for the up coming month. Of course after further inspection and after placing my trades I noticed under RECENT EVENTS that their earnings announcement is this evening . . . wonderful . . I normally make it a point not to trade...

Thought I would try to get another fill . . . Oct 27 Bear Call Spread on V 4 - 80/85 Calls @ 0.60 Max gain 0.60 Max loss 4.40 Delta .13 Return at expiration 13.64% Days to expiration 25

Oct 27 Bear Call Spread on V 4 - 80/85 Calls @ 0.55 Max gain 0.55 Max loss 4.45 Delta .12 Return at expiration 12.36% Days to expiration 25

I decided to start trading, if you can call it that, credit spreads as well as covered calls a few months ago and thought I would post my progress. To give you some background I paper traded this strategy for 3 months and just finished up my 2nd month of live trading. Credit Spreads Strategy...

There is a ton of great information here. It’s amazing how much I have learned from these comments. You are right about the volatility component. I recently have been reading through my “Options as a Strategic Investment” and I will try to incorporate selling the spreads during times...

Thank you everyone for your input. I really appreciate it being new to the game and there are some great take aways. One comment to make sure I am thinking straight. . . If I were to only base my trades off of being 75% profitable and never made any adjustments then I would agree with the...

Hello All, I am pretty new to options trading, 3 months of paper trading and this will be my 2nd month of real trading. I learned a lot in those first 3 months of paper trading. Basically, I started selling covered calls and have since moved to a mix of covered calls and bear call spreads...