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What if a nuclear bomb lands in your town? What if you have a heart attack right now? Quit worrying about insignificant things. You don't have to worry about getting shot unless you live in the ghetto. The odds are just too small.

At least you didn't lose money overall.

The only reason people are insulting maae is because he claimed to have been trading options for 3 years, but doesn't understand how a simple assignment works. Nobody bashes people when the say "i'm a noob, how does this work?" But when you claim to do something for 3 years, and it appears to...

the thing is, in order for there to be a massive bubble popping, there has to be sky high P/Es of like 100+ Most of the companies that have been rallying like nuts still have fairly low P/Es. 10% correction is very possible though.

Market makers can't prop this stock up forever.

AMD has hit the single digits before (low single digits at that), and it was only a few years ago. It can happen again.

maae, honestly, I'd have to say you know jack shit about options if you don't even understand what happens when you exercise options, or are assigned on one. You couldn't even do the simple math on what your PnL was on your assignment and the underlying price movement. Not to mention that you...

Max, you need to look @ the bid and the ask, not the last price. And a buy/write should ALWAYS yield you a slightly higher yield then a naked put, simply because you're putting up money to buy the stock, and 5% interest (annualized) is priced into the buy/write.

Yeah, I was really happy when I heard they missed their already low low expectations by a mile.. they plunge 9% when the stock opened, then recovered it in an instant.. wtf.

Jeez, unbelievable. Oh well, I have 15 calls too, hopefully it goes above that tommorow :)

What a joke, the expectations were thru the floor, and they couldn't even meet them. I'm long 10 X 14 puts and 20 X 12.5 puts (which were worthless today for the most part), i might actually see a return on them.

If there was only 30c of time decay for a $90 stock, that's about as worthless as the option gets. Play the stock directly.

i would short a straddle on goog for earnings before i'd long one.

maae, you can't sell puts that deep ITM, when you sell puts w/ absolutely zero time value, there's a very high chance of assignment. AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS: When you SELL options, you're SELLING TIME VALUE, if the option has NO time value, why are you selling it? You're giving away...

It's enough to scare off the people who have no risk tolerance.

Consider this, if those option advisory sites really have winning trades, why are they telling you instead of loading up the truck by themself? If they REALLY had trades that win 80% of the time, or 99% of the time, they wouldn't bother telling you, they'd be making tons and tons of money...

If the fees arn't clearly listed, and they have a bullshit clause that they can change fees anytime (w/o notice), then forget it, why fuck around w/ a firm that could scam you when there's plenty of reliable ones out there.

40 - 50% implied, or even 100 - 200% implied, is pretty typical for options that expire in 3 days and have an earnings announcement in those 3 days. YHOO I believe had implieds of around 80% before the earnings.

This morning, I called the trading line on OXPS to try and find out what the VIX SOQ Settlement price was, and i was on hold for like 15 minutes before the guy figured out that the price isn't released until noon. How the hell do you work at a brokerage, then not know when the settlement...

Rick, if you're doing things like options worth a nickel, or 10 cents, 95% of the time you'll win, then once in a while you'll have a meltdown that'll cost you big time. If you want to do it, go for it, but don't put too much into one until you've experienced a meltdown so you can better...