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Just glancing at the graph, more than likely the risk is that a fast, quick move towards short strikes will blow you up. Sure, any short premium move will look like a holy grail if the market moves back and forth in a tight range so you gain theta. But the one time the market heads south quick...

9:42 chicago pmi subscribers

Short the underlying or short options? Careful with biotech, Dendreon (DNDN), IV was probably around 300% day before their drug passed last April, went from like $6 to $18. Short anything but puts woulda been killed.

at first I thought I was looking at a fairly common SPY print...doublechecked to make sure it was ES

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lasner have you graphed the risk profile? Much easier to have a visual.

ATM SPY strangle feb 114p/115c priced at 4.59. could be a decent play for earnings season.

I would say 9:30-10:30am gives the most BANG for the buck.

Note, I messaged the OP of that thread last year, his trades were from a subscription to an options advisory website. Don't think it was just a rookie making great calls. check earnings.com. cnbc.com also has a decent earnings calendar. briefing.com has a good upgrades/downgrades...

NFP spy 114 straddle priced at 1.95 now, -21 cent loser.

hi bigarrow, i goto school, no job yet. in a couple years tho, for sure :( :p This semester, besides school stuff, I'm working on networking/presentation of myself, so i can get a nice job eventually and then trade es/equities for fun :) the title is also play on wording from 50 cents...

happy new year!!! haven't been keeping up with es off the open, new semester is here. But will start again probably next week. seems like uncertainty over non farm payroll tomorrow, and without a decent downmove so far this week, I think SPY premie is cheap going into the numbers. sim SPY...

Has there been any discussion by the NYSE or other groups on when stocks will be traded 24/7 and the US open and 'RTH' is no longer significant? The open is also very important to me.

What would be the best way to be long premium (volatility) in Shanghai real estate? It may have been hard to forecast exactly when the US real estate bubble would crash, but I suppose seasoned options players could have built long prem positions in US real estate stocks/ETFs/derivatives in...

Good trading so far akivak. I've read a lot of IC websites/threads and a lot of people will say, 'just manage risk'. But in my opinion managing risk is taking on a directional bet to counter the unrealized loss of the losing spread, which defeats the point/definition of 'market neutral'...

the OP was looking for an old poster keep it on topic. ET has good quality stuff in the archives

long DX a better play?

well if its a real treasure hunt just search all the posts of rallymode, riskarb, optioncoach, iv_trader, dmo, sailing, maverick i'm sure their posts would be in the same threads as that trader, at least if its '05-'06, i read a lot of the threads from that time

long CL

probably 'riskarb', good journals from couple years ago. think he had a plethora of strats though not only short strangs