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do a web search on option greeks + excel. Peter Hoadley's web site offers a loy of online calulators as well as excel add ons.

have you ever heard of the word AVERAGE? You Keep asking the same question over and over. Do u bother to read the replies?

the brilliance of my thoughts dazzles many

The first sentence in the link says it all - CHEAP STOCKS AND LEVERAGE are a great combination for making money, or a recipe for a financial bomb

If you're right, u make money, if wrong u lose.

if those are closing prices you're wasting your time Because of delta, option prices do not track the stock's precisely and with nickel options (not penny increments like MSFT), stock may move a few cents and options don't change. Considering carry cost as well which is larger for more...

just what this board needs, another stock pumper

That sounds like a once in a lifetime arb opportunity: exercise one way for a $700 profit or close the opttion for only a $435 profit. :) Here are two tips: 1) Read more about options 2) Short the stck and exercise a deep ITM call like this if it trades enough below intrinsic to yield...

Two traders on the floor: #1) Hi, I'd like to buy that worthless OTM call for zero. Would you sell it to me for zero? #2) Sorry, I disppeared!

If you're right, u make money,if wrong u lose.

I posed your question on ASK JEEVES: 1. Suppose the price of a stock is $100. 2. Company XYZ will announce later today it's profits for the last fiscal year. 3. You buy otm call at say $110 for say $0.001 and otm put at say $90 for again $0.001 and same expiry date...say 3 months...

Shit happens in the market so all of this is babble. Stats are irrelevant when price is moving now or later.

Here's my two cents. In what alternate universe do you find an earnigs play hours before the announcemnt on a $100 stock with 3 months until exp whose 90p/110c strangle costs your two 1000's of a cent?

1) strategy works - borrow all the bucks you can 2) doesn't work - take up the cooking channel several 1000 stocks have options and report quarterrly. ever consider looking at them to see if strategy viable?

I hope you don't need a quorum for the vote to carry!

The operation was a success but the patient was already dead. Good luck with collections!

What does any of this have to do with the OP's request for a 5 to 1 leveraged option position?

I'm confused. At 50% margin you have 2X leverage. What is 50x or 20x ?

How does that create a calendar spread? Its P&L is more like a synthetic short stock (not equivalent but similar)

Not all covered call positions are profitable if assigned.