Search results

12%, 11%, and 8% for '08,'09,'10? is that really had to believe? i think it's rather poor.

wow, that's harsh.

correct. tomorrow the next weekly will become available and there will be 4 March expirations to trade.

or you can still do very well because you made your delta hedges. and if you are getting decay, it comes down to how that is performing vs your hedging.

my co-worker trades the S&P products. we are fairly active in the ES weekly options. we do not trade binaries. during normal market hours, you will have a reasonable bid/ask spread. i haven't looked at them over night. i'm guessing they are occasionally there and mostly not there. just a...

i would think it's highly unlikely they are front running you. i don't know how their platform works, but the risk/reward for front running you doesn't make much sense. can you direct where your order gets routed? are there any default contingencies on your orders? i'm assuming there is...

if you are long 1 ES for a longer term trade, and for a shorter term trade you get a sell signal and sell 1 ES, you are net flat. at some point, you will exit one of those strategies leaving you with the other strategy. if i'm long 1 ES from 1300 and at 1315, i have a short term sell and...

i expect it to have reasonable markets for width and depth from the beginning. all the larger market making groups already stream quotes into other index products. adding one more isn't a big deal. guess it will depend on if they have C2 trading permits when it's launched.

^^this. pretty much day one of options basics.

too late to edit. the vix calls correlate with SPX puts, and vix puts correlate with SPX calls. a friend that trades ags. has told me his skews are essentially the same at the vix. more premium to the calls.

it's been around for several years

You have until the close of the last trading day to buy it back.

How did you end up long stock on being short a call spread? It seems like they exercised your long call, but you didn't get assigned on your short call. If that's the case, selling the stock above 85 puts you in a better position than having the call spread be a $5 loser.

no, you are wrong. because higher VIX correlates with SPX puts, the skew is essentially inverse a normal index skew. ITM call, OTM puts have a lower vol than the OTM calls, ITM puts.

what product? the VIX is the only product that comes to mind with low vols on ITM calls.

^this^ i trade a portion of my ira. it seems to generally work well.

i just wish it didn't do it at a time being short it.

you posted about buying cheap vol on a day the market tanks and vol explodes. it was a joke sorry. oh, i expect a check for my losses in my IRA. kthx. are you looking to hedge or make a vol bet? looking directional?

why do you care what he wears sitting in front of his computer.

way to cause the sell off.