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    Buy GM Dec 2010 35.00 calls, only $0.50

    fixed it for you
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    Weekly Options: buy them or sell them?

    YES!!!!
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    options greeks

    ^^this^^
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    SPX Hedging with ES

    those options don't expire until the print. you can hedge with futures as long as you plan on covering your futures on the cash opening. it can get messy since the print can end way out of line compared to where the futures had been trading.
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    Suggestion to the CBOE

    i was drawing a blank. i forgot they are on the cfe.
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    Suggestion to the CBOE

    actually, i think one chicago or whatever that trades the vix fut would be a better fit.
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    Suggestion to the CBOE

    i missed the expiration part. but that makes your strangle and straddle worthless from the beginning. that's why i think you are looking for a futures type product. i think like the vix future and not the vix options. that gives you vol exposure, no greeks, etc., however you can't really...
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    Suggestion to the CBOE

    if you want exposure to only the front month or 2nd month vol. only, you are asking for a future on the stock's vol. or a vix style future. there is no need to have somebody quoting you a straddle and 15 different strangles to give you this exposure. how does your contract expire? it needs...
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    Suggestion to the CBOE

    why don't you just roll your position? that's what everybody else has to do.
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    Market Maker Report

    some of what you might be looking for may come from the cboe on twitter. i think they mention some happenings like that. if you and i are trading the same product, i don't need somebody to tell me if vol is going higher or lower right now. we are looking at the same info.
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    Max loss for sold naked calls

    my thought would be to use a buy stop on stock above. i'll refrain from commenting on the poor trading decisions.
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    Suggestion to the CBOE

    everybody uses vol. not vola. i can't even read through all the posts because it is driving me batsh!t crazy. you want a vix style future on every equity, right? to give you exposure to vol, but not have to deal with delta nor gamma? so if you want to make a clear vega bet, you could go to...
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    SPX SET Gaps

    SET is just a ticker symbol for the opening print calculation.
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    SPX SET Gaps

    if the first day of the month is a friday, you count it as one of the weeks. the cboe publishes a calender with the expiration dates on it. i'm sure it's on the site somewhere.
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    Do you know a broker that can offer a price for American knock-in calls on VIX?

    i would think you would want to contact somebody like prebon and have them get you some quotes. i don't know what sort of min. size they need.
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    Expiration week trades, let's hear 'em

    it amazes me how many people have been jumping on the OP saying that options are always priced fairly. especially during expiration week. have you people actually ever traded or have you just read books about options? there is no "fair value" like everybody like to believe when comparing...
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    Futures Question?

    if you did this with index futures, you could only do it in the serial months. the quarterly options expire into futures, which expire into cash.
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    SPX SET Gaps

    SPX expires on the 3rd friday of every month, on the opening prints.
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    Balanced Trading

    you explained it. they make bearish bets on weak stocks and bullish bets on stronger ones. if the market moves, they are hoping the weaker ones out perform on the downside and the strong ones outperform on the upside if the market rallies. if the market rallies and they make good picks, they...
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    DITM Bull Call & Bear Put (Debit) Strangle Spreads

    if you think you are having trouble with short legs getting exercised, you should be more concerned if somebody is giving you free money or are you giving somebody else free money by not exercising the long leg.
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