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No, European options are European because if they weren't, they'd be American. Of course, you could buy(sell) both and have a Euromerican position but then that would be like eating Freedom Fries. Make sense now?

It's better to right one option than to wrong any number of options. Even worse is getting exorcised! Feeling like Linda Blair yet?

No pain, no gain!

If you want to be truthful, you were told in reguard to your GIS condor that there's no point selling an iron condor with 450 days to expiration because time decay will be virtually zero for the next 400 days (see page 5 of this chain). Perhaps now that it's 4-1/2 months later, you can...

If the exis before expiration, it effects the options price. If after, not at all. ATM options will be effected more than OTM with most of div is priced into ATM (call drop plus put increase may approach amount of divident)). The furthe rout in time, the less the effect. So oTM and far...

Only buy puts on stocks that drop.

The previous uptrend is ending is an oportunity to sell. Fibonacci 61.8% level to take profit at 54.5425 Fibonacci 38.2 pct is the stop loss at 60.10 CAT will touch its pivot point and reverse downwards, beginning a major downtrend. A move below 57.50 could set up a test of 53.25...

How hard is it to get off your dump-ass and look at an option chain to find the answer? And buying futures to hedge a huge loseing short naked call position on a stock is sheer genius. NOT!

Other than outright lieing, what better way to make you newsletter attractive to noobs who don't know any better? Noobs think trading is an easy way to riches. Suckers!

The internet is an amazing thing where anonimous people post lottery ticket like trading results with the desire of helping the poor downtrodden masses. What's the underlying contract symbol, TROL?

Conversions and reversals :eek:

Your March 155 put has a delta of about .05 so with a move of $2 in you're favor, that explains maybe 10 cents of your gain. Given you sold the put for 30+ cents more than the puts high print of the day, I'd say that you have a phenominal broker. Or maybe IV spiked just before you sold it...

How do you figure that the stock has risen 50%? OP's post reads like he bot ITM call. And on a 1 to 1 basis, one always makes more with the stock than a long call.

Assuming it was ITM and exercisd, Monday AM you'd be short 100 shares. Again, assuming it's your error and you don't want the short postion, best to deal with it early before regular trading starts.

Yeh, trade stocks that move in your direction :)

I'm sure you know that you can make 5 less the debit cost but given it's a newb question, thought Id clarify. Exceppting mispricings due to hard to borrow stocks (as donna mentioned), volatility and underlying flatness make mean nothing. Interest rates too. IV will change the premiums but...

A more precise statement would be debit verticals do not require margin. The are some other kinds of debit spreads that do require margin.

About 10 pages ago I started to wonder if this was a web site promotion or just someone with tunnel blindness.

While it makes sense that companies with buy back programs might be less volatile, many companies announce buyback programs but do not follow through and buy all of the stock. That could be a problem for this new brain storm by Goldman , pushing clients to sell naked puts. I have a bigger...

It's clear that you don't have all of the correct information.