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Calendars, verticals and ICs

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Your inquiry is incomplete what are their conditions? you trade your own systrems or their? what's max drawdown before the "ciao"? what's the max shares you can trade /position?

yes, trade them

why did you exit IBKR before your predetermined stop? were you trailing it?

I am pretty sure CROX longs from last week wouldn't agree with you :D

Directional trades are easier to understand the risk profile and I was interested in something that would let me short the volatility directly ( like VIX with the indices) being as close as possible to delta neutral. Butterflies/Strangles are the choices that have come up here.

Tnanks AZD and rosy2, butterflies look more appealing to me, since straddles are more difficult to manage due to the overnight gap risk. Also there's always a chance to get some credit for long butterfly.

Right, but what would be the most appropriate strategy with something like that, i.e the volatility bet. I am very risk averse and my money management should take care of the losses should any arise. Again, interested in shorting vega directly, or indirectly if that possible as well

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Are there any plays to short vega directly besides trading the reverse calendar spreads (long front month, short longer term calls)? direct shorting of the VIX or VIX calls unaccetable since I am interested in shorting vega @stocks. LDK would be a good example at the moment.

If you don't have cash to cover your assignment just close your assigned stock, though it's unlikely someone put it you unless this is right before the exp or very DITM. I also agree with the previous poster saying that better use a closer month ( I use the second or third) for the long leg...

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Do you have a family to support?

Please, how hard is to do it?

Does anyone know when (if) is TOS going to offer ES/ER2 options? I tried to contact them in their chat room but no success.

What I was trying to say that do not sell naked on stocks with upcoming earnings, or major announcments. Look at all previous black swans (i.e. huge moves against you as the naked seller) and study the patterns that preceded that. Overall, I mean that selling naked (or even iron condors)...

Use %allocation of your risk capital, mine is 2% per position for example, diversify across markets, use statistical approach to minimize the black swan exposure

just hedge your deltas and gammas and you'll be fine