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Hi Please explain your idea a little more. And what are you looking, the volume, the iv, the OI. thanks.

Hi Thank you for your comment @ironchef My broker is a also a market maker. An option with 30 dte can not worth nothing. They force me to sell for 0 and after 20 minutes that option is 0,10 and after an hour is 0,30They buy it for 0 and sell it for 0,30 which is the logical price. If the...

Hi One thing that is sure about options is that the extrinsic value will be worthless at the end. So if you sell it for 1 you know one day will be 0. It is better to sell than buy. But everybody that makes multyleg strategies is at the same time buyer and seller. And almost all the strategiescan...

Hi The value of an american style option has to be positive. I would like to explain a situation that has happened a few times. In a multyleg strategy my sold put become ITM and I am early assigned, somy position is bought in stocks. Then the margin requirement is higher than my available cash...

Hi Thank you for your comment. Never thought buying a synthetic with different expirations. Have to admit that I have not yet deepen the strategies with several expirations. Yes it seems a very good idea , the difference of volatility is remarkable. I wonder what is the risk here. For example...

Hi Wanted to ask the same question, what makes an option cheap or expensive ? The first idea it comes it is that the price of an option is the extrinsic value of the premium. So maybe to know if it's cheap or expensive we have to look at the iv. And to know if the iv is high or low we can look...

Hi Thanks for your feedback @ironchef Yes I am, only since March trading options. A lot of learning during this time, mainly in the practice part, broker and more. I've been early assigned much times and autoliquidated a couple, and each time I have learned something. I think that's the...

Hi Spx Naked strangle 2335/2515 maximum profit 700 , margin required 43.600 so the profit is 1,6 % of the margin Iron cndor 2330/2335/2515/2520 maximum profit 60 , margin required 500 so the profit is 12 % of the margin It seems clear what of the two strategies is more...

Hi Yes, the Spy accumulates dividends and only distributes four times per year. So on the ex dividend date yes there is an effect on the Spy price. But what I am seeing is that it is usual that the price doesn't discount the total amount of the dividends. It seems that the Spy doesn't have...

Thank you @nonlinear5 and @Gotcha It makes perfect sense Any idea about the second question.

Hi In the Spy. Why there is a gap between the close of the after hours and the opening of the pre market? What produces it? Maybe there is someone who is authorized to trade outside the regular and the extended hours, but who are they. And a more specific question about the Ex dividend date...

Hi @beerntrading Please , What is the software to make this kind of 3d graphics. It is very interesting. It is posible to represent all kind of option strategies or only the basic ones. Thank you

Hi @ironchef You are a very active participant in the forum and you look a serious person. And I am curious about your method. Options are an instrument, very usefull, and there are a lot of ways to use them. In my little experience,still, the way I have found is selling options. Sell extrinsic...

Hi I would like to see the Spy pre market and post market chart for a day. I don't know where I can find it. If someone knows a way to obtain this data please le't me know. Thank you very much.

Hi Thank you for these numbers @JackRab Yes, you edited a little, before the edit the profit was 0,20 and now 0,40, a 100% more. But Yes you did it very quickly. Appreciate these numbers. Very usefull to learn. I want to say that this strategy isn't the right one for me. But a 0,40 non risk...

Hi The last Spy ex dividend date wasn't very good for me. It was the first time I had a position envolving the ex-divend. Now I am observing a high OI in deep ITM puts for the expiration of Sep. High compared to the same strike for the next two monthly expirations. The extrinsic value of these...

Hi It is very interesting the CME DIrect , I didn't know that tool. But I see IB it's not a supported clearing firm. For my second acount, not yet, I will try to choose a supported broker. Also I want to ask you a question about brokers. In IB the gross position value must not exceed Net...

Hi Yes I know what is a dividend and how it works if we only have in consideration the stock because is, almost, the same thing to have a stock with higher value than having it with less value but also cash. What I tried to understand was the moviment of the future compared to the moviment of...

Hi It is not a specific position with a specific underlying. It is a theoretical position to understand if this is correct, or this is correct If the numbers I showed are correct, specifically the Future dte=150, then it seems it is a good way to capture some dividend without risk, buy stock...

Hi Thank you very much for the response. I will read carefully. The numbers in my previous post are almost inintelligible. I am uploading a file to easily see what I mean. In my example the future with 150 dte is the key, because remains at 100 while the stock goes up due to the incorporation...