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What are the pros & cons of using different lengths of SMA's? For example, would a long term trader be more inclined to use a 200 day SMA? Would a short-term flipper find a 7 - day SMA the most useful? Would someone who trades monthly options best be served with a 30 day SMA? Or would any trader...

I see what you're saying, but I still think there is quite a bit of money to be made if she sold weeklies. On TOS right now the SPX weekly puts that are around 5% chance of ITM are going for .70 right now. Of course she probably sells way more usually, but for simplicity's sake lets say she...

Maybe I am missing something, but why wouldn't she just do this strategy with weeklies instead of trading every 56 days? Seems like much less risk of a whipsaw/crash. Plus, you can collect premiums once a week (instead of every 56 days) and reinvest those, effectively compounding your balance...

If I sell uncovered puts for a stock, will my broker (TD ameritrade) make me borrow the amount of money required to exercise as collateral, even my put is never assigned? Or, will my broker leave me alone UNLESS I am assigned? In other words, why exactly is margin required for naked option...

I only have around $600 cash right now and I want to make a little money by writing puts. Are there any stocks out there trading around $5.50 that have decent option interest?

Right now, AAPL is trading at 541.38. Covered Calls with a strike of 530 (well in the money) have a premium of 19.20 on the bid side. If I did a buy-write, I would buy 100 shares of AAPL for $54,138 and receive $1,920 for the premium. Assuming someone exercises, I would sell AAPL for...