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Dia options. Well that was a useful contribution. THANKYOU.! Gives me something to think about. I call that useful techno stuff. ( grin ) Think you will miss me? I'm off on vacation this weekend, for an uncertain length of time. Traveling to the high sierras of colorful...

He Atticus! I'm trying to understand that weekly GOOG debit spread this week. I've got something wrong here in my understanding? Can you explain it for me please? I put on a DEBIT SPREAD in GOOG in TOS paper web based money on Monday. Buy the 590 Sell the 595 On Monday for a...

Trading LONG STRADDLES in the OVERLAPPING STRADDLE system. I just finished doing this in real cash. I lost, but not much. I was using 2 month out options. I was sorry I didn't do it in paper money web based trading. Even despite the loss, the method works. The changes would be; a)...

Hey! You got a remote control. You don't like a tv program, you don't have to watch it.

Closed two of my three leftover long straddle losing sides today. Both made a smidgen profit. One actually did quite good. Still holding a last one, a PUT that is a September. So it has time. In review, it sort of looks like, doing LONG STRADDLES the way I was testing it would work, if...

Anybody got a list of big cap stocks, that the premiums trade way OTM in size, would appreciate a hint.

Atticus Well okay on my bad use of the world exponential. I am just now after 3 weeks, getting my picture in my mind what the differences are between debit and credit spreads. This week I had a Eureka moment and figured out how to handle the sold strike, etc. Got a clearer idea of...

Tsk Tsk On the book no! My friend in Washington D.C. emailed me he is coming down the 26th. So if he has got the book, it is probable he will bring it then. He usually brings me assorted books to read.

Well I only got a trade on in GOOG. In my learning process, I am learning that whether you use a credit spread, or a debit spread, the strike price OTM you choose to sell, is the same. The difference is that the credit spread gives you money up front, but the trade off, is that if the...

I don't know frankly. Care to explain? I'm going to try web based paper trading with GOOG, C, and JPM this week. As they are pr-earnings. For my second time. Trying to learn and establish the ropes on such trades. Last week I learned how to open and close them in the TOS platform and as...

Looking at the big company Earnings Calendar and I notice that mid July is going to see some violent moves in the market. So many earnings coming out mid July.

Here is a tip, I picked up someplace. Haven't tried it, and not even sure if I understand it? This is a CALENDAR trade: But it uses a butterfly in the front month and a wrangle on the back month. ( long wrangle, but I'm not even sure what a wrangle is ) It says, that this is the...

Still cleaning up my leftover trades, doing Long Straddles. Losing more than I like. Account now down -32 %. Switched to the web based paper trading stuff. I am obviously out of sync with things. AGAIN! Been reading up on ATTICUS stuff. Very interesting. Going to give some of it a...

This one is by A.J. Brown online. In effect, the strategy is a form of low-price insurance against opening gaps that go against us. In a very volatile market, where an underlying stock can significantly gap up or down at open, this strategy can make you as much as ten to twenty times your...

Debit spreads and butterflys I've been struggling with visualizing the debit an buttefly spreads placement. Because of the following contribution on trading long straddles FORUM. __________________________________ ATM long flies if you're bullish. OTM long calendars if...

PREMIUM VOLATILITY Myself for premium ballooning, trying to get the highest price. I myself use the DMI indicator and the ten minute time frame chart. When the D fast line crosses over the ADX slower line, thats it. After that, the premium will start to deflate, even if the stock or index...

Got an old book from late 80's and early 90's before there was internet trading and one used discount brokers. Apparently the term Vertical spreads used back then today, is called credit spreads and iron condors. The debit spreads are called Bear and Bull Spreads. That clears that up a...

Just doing some figuring. I had run a paper trading experiment in Long Straddles one time, and I have it in my mind, that it grossed 3% on the 3 strike move. Usually done with a bit of a volatility move thrown in. What I don't remember is; if that 3% was before or after commissions...

I do not clearly remember the details of my long straddle trading. But if you do a long straddle, for $600 at risk, and you make 3%, and your commissions are $20 in and out, you would actually lose money on the trade. You would have to make 7% on the $600 at trade risk. Not sure you...

I'm puzzling about terminology and the difference in placement of the orders for Vertical Bull Call Spread and the BULL Spread. Far as I can tell they are the same thing. BUUUUT ! I get confused in some of the literature, what they mean. In both, you buy the expensive option and sell the...