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Looks like a pretty basic screen based system for the old style trading sheets. Nothing special

Guessing a stock is going up or down is never a sound trading method, nor is buying a put or a call to leverage that guess.

Demand for cemetery plots is well known to be fairly constant you wont get much premium trying to sell options there.

Not really worth discussing the scenario where the market "can't" fall X percent. People have short memories and need to learn the same lessons over and over.

Depends on the call. I didnt say every single ITM option was an early exercise strictly for the DIV play

Its not all that hard to set up a spread sheet to do your HV calc and set your own parameters

Depends on how deep the call is obviously but your point is well taken and the call seller should plan on being assigned and not collecting any div is there is an X div day during the life of the option.

Come on spin you were impressing chicks at the pool with your options knowledge.

Well the way you casually mention 5 to 10 % a year as if that’s a snap with no risk is a red flag to me. Also you say you’ve been doing this for years and now you’re asking a pretty basic question. By the way the calls all have the dividend priced into them so if you have been selling...

What are you expecting to get out of the covered call position? The maximum amount of time premium is going to be in the ATM strike. The further you go in or out of the money the less you’ll take in via time premium. What exactly is your goal in the position?

its not that the exchanges use any particular model, its the member market makers who stream their quotes to the exchange systems who set the price. But, yea for equity options the Black Scholes model is pretty safe to use most larger firms tweek their own model based off that one or one of the...

All I am saying then is the DATA is wrong, those calls CAN NOT be priced there with the stock at .30 I can not happen, so either the stock or the options are wrong or from time stamps that are not truely identical.

There is no edge in trying to pick direction thus if you base your trades on direction in conjunction with time of day again there is no inherent edge in the trade. The options will be priced based on the price of the underlying at that moment.

Here is what I pointed out... if the stock is at .30 the call is intrinsically worth 30 cents so if you can buy it at .10 cents everyone would. Therefore your example or your data is wrong. You can choose to take the " I could care less" attitude but you are basing that on wrong data.

Donna, I used the quotes the OP listed for the option and the stock to make a point that a dime is not the correct price. If I bought every one of those calls I could for a dime and sold the stock at .30 the cost to borrow that stock and deilver it via exercise is less than a penny there are...

we're missing something since I would buy every single call offered at a dime and short the stock at 30 cents and take the 20 cent profit, and I am not the only one who would do that.

those who sold upside vol made a KILLING, those noobies who thot selling naked was a good idea lost again.

Shocking that buying otm calls and praying didnt work

When you're short an option its not the person who bought it from you who directly effects whether or not you get assigned. When an option is exercised the entire pool of accounts who is short that option has the potential to be assigned, its a random selection. On a stock with a 6 dollar...

Couple years ago the auto exercise limit was more then 20 cents and at the money GOOG options would not be trading at 5 cents even at the end of the day. Nice story though