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Hi Kim, could you share a few of your criteria in selecting "candidates and entry prices?" For example, do you look at their IV vs HV charts in the past?

Hi sle, incidentally, would you mind sharing your thoughts on this "shorting an S&P call against a short VIX call" strategy? Why do you think it does not work?

I used tastyworks to submit a SPX order, and could instantly find it on CBOE COB. So I assume tastyworks follows the TD way you mentioned, at least for SPX orders...

Thanks for sharing this. But I have two questions on using the volatility chart provided by IVolatility to guide earnings play: 1. Shouldn't you compare pre-earning IV with post-earning HV, as opposed to the IV contraction alone? Here is how I look at it: if, historically, the pre-earning IV...

How do OMMs get their IV curves (or surfaces) in the first place? Do they estimate it based on realized volatility or other isolated modeling?

From Yahoo's ETF performance pages, it seems PUTW is outperformed by the SPY benchmark this year. It seems S&P Puts are at historically cheap level and there are not enough premiums to short...

Similarly, among UVXY OTM calls, the peak of theta is not at the ATM strike 25; the peak -0.047 resides on 32-42 (around 1 standard deviation strike). If I place this bearish OTM call vertical -25C/+35C, will I be suffering theta decay with passage of time (assuming IV and underlying price do...

I am relatively new to options trading and have one question regarding theta: SPY is closed at $249.19 today. In thinkorswim, in October expiry, ATM strike 249P shows a theta of 0.03, smaller than 0.04 theta of OTM strike 245P, in terms of absolute value. Is this reasonable? I thought the...

What is the current status of this SEC complaint against Karen?