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Agree, think we have gone about as far as we can. Need more info to really solve something here.

Good thread. However to help you and others we still need more details on your trades as others have pointed out here. firebird, I think we need to explore this; "But part of it might be the new instrument that I have adopted since last 3 months.. not sure . I worked through VIX in...

Near a major airport?

Boy, I should have looked closer, did see some activity in front month, arghh.

Wow. I was just about ready to not look at this thread any more, but now, I will check back because I think we entered the cage.

Mark, So selling the OTM put spreads into a price decline is a way to take advantage of increasing IV? (I read your blog and have "Rookies", both are great.) I now trade mainly SPY (the ETF) because it is in my "learning comfort zone". I have done a lot of call/put buying in the past, but...

From Oct 29 pr, PCLN being added to sp500, date TBA. Also has earnings on Nov 9. Dont know if this has been talked about on the thread. Didnt see it. Lots of volume today. Options dont look real interesting.

What do you do with them?

erol, could you give some more info, what is the time frame for the trade.

A+

tman, Go to 1option dot com and read his post on "the problem with debit spreads". Describes what you ran into, I think. "To complicate matters, as the spread “goes your way”, the option you sold will pick up speed along with the one you bought and your gain is muted."

rft, I ran a RWASAS on a collar vs a spread for a $50 stock and a 50% drop in price, gap down, no chance for adjustment, and a close down of the trade. There are several ways of using equivalency. I decided to use a $100 net return and front month options as the common elements. The...

A covered call and a short put are equivalent positions. Add a long put to each, and you get a collar equivalent to a put spread. You can go to voptions dot com and see visually that the collar and bull put spreads are equivalent posiitions. What are we missing?

How about the Samir Elias book, Generate Thousands. Anybody read it ? I am thinking about getting it. Most of the option books I have read have either been what you can get for free from CBOE, etc. or some over the top stuff that is nice to know but doesnt make you money. I do have MDW's...

I ran across the following post on another thread, quoted for your consideration as follows: Rearden Metal Registered: Jan 2003 Posts: 5675 02-06-06 05:11 When it comes to options trading, I think certain personality types gravitate naturally towards varying strategies accordingly...

wartrace, thanks for the reply, after I sent the post I thought I should have added that this is a more aggressive trade than i would normally do. I did one similar to this for SEP (97/99) and it worked out as a total win, even though it did move against me at one point. So I might be...

For myself, moving away from hard directional trading, but not going to neutral, I have been doing credit spreads, so this is a little bang trade. For my entry to the $1000 challenge consider, SPY @ $106.31, my outlook is bullish with caution. a SPY OCT 100/102 BULL PUT SPREAD @$0.34 vs...

.... I have faith you can do it....lets BANG 'em....