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I've done okay with calls/puts/straddles on equities (most notably with DNDN during last Friday's Mother of All Short Squeezes, thankyoushorts!) and am thinking of experimenting with some of the more active movers. Lots of stuff I've seen shows great price variance in the NYX, CME, BOT, NMX...

I bought 15 APR 5 calls for .90 the week prior and sold them at the open on Friday for 11.90 each when the stock was falling from its premarket highs. I was a very happy camper having made a neat dumptruck of cash on a pure-spec play. Last Friday was the Mother of All Short Squeezes - I was...

Given: (1) I purchase an ITM LEAP Jan08 call on a stock with low volitility (ie, GE) and (2) The underlying stock price rises a modest amount, such as $0.50-$0.75. Are my research and paper-trading experiments thus far wrong to show that LEAPS with long times 'till expiration...

Great, simple journaling! Definately helpful to those of us curious about options trading. One question about your strategy, which looks to be a good place to start as a beginner myself: I see you hold options for 2-3 days --- in cases of the SPY, are you buying ATM, OTM, or slightly-ITM...