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I don't know for sure nor do I trade long-dated options but the volume and open interest may have to do with the fact that the January-2007 was a LEAPS-contract that attracted a lot of trading interest when people thought AMR might go bankrupt with United and Delta from awhile back. Much of the...

July 8th! Wow!..........Yes there are costs. You're offsetting your front month position and initiating a new deferred position.

What about eliminating the lowest-volume stocks in the basket and/or stocks that don't have listed options?

You have to be more patient with that type of position. The spread won't move much because of the "crazy greeks" associated with the short-140-call while it's slightly-out-of-the-money.

What you were looking at was probably a "continuation" chart. The chart rolls from the front month to the next month after expiration of the front month. During July 2006, the July-2006 Oats appeared to be trading at a large premium to the September-2006 Oats. When the July expired, there...

Joe Kennedy? Jesse Livermore? John D. Rockefeller? Bernard Baruch? I think it was one of those 1930's guys.

Would it be possible to reduce the number of stocks in the basket and still maintain profitability? Eliminate the ones with the tightest correlation.

I'll summarize the video for you right now. Repeat after me, in a Southern drawl---"Losers average losers, Winners average winners". The end.

Citadel does a lot of options volume on the ISE.

It depends. If the overall market is good, nobody will care. If the overall market is bad, people will want to know "why" after-the-fact. People will want to kill all bankers too.

Would you please be more specific about what your friend observed during the early-1990's.

Does his tv-infomercial come on after Carlton Sheets or the "Ka-chingo" guy?

For the umpteenth time, Natenberg, then Cottle.

Once a put-seller in a "bull market"......always a put-seller..............

Wait until September or October, you'll be right on one of those weekends.

If you have a method for identifying big breakouts, give it a try. Ultimately, you'll have to contend with the "greeks" in addition to price movement

There might be some "juice" left in the 27.5 strike.

Murray...........you got it right the first time.

Reveal more details-----Which firm were you with? Which firm are you with now? How much money did the previous firm payout to you at the end. What was your profitability at the other firm? What training did they actually provide? What is your legal/registration status at the new firm?

Please erase your thread. It'll cause a downside panic!