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yeah well facilitating serendipity helps.. i'm with you..a good risk to reward ratio and some intuition.. if you could be right alot of the time.. and were smart about the options trades you made.. and on top of that weren't scared to buy deep otm options on the occasion.. It just doesn't...

think about the ease of rest you get from just a .30 cent option purchase! its a great idea you hedging a jump .. hell it might not happen but it sure will make sense if it does..

i would love a good data feed.. as far as ib is concerned.. during trading hours they are decent.. but otherwise they must be throttling their data stream .

i wanna trade options on futures! haha... all i do know is that the ib data coming into excel finance add in is super slow.. super slow..

yeah mm lead me some money i'll trade against ya :0 haha

it all just makes so much sense in hindsight.. haha i had my suspicions they would miss.. but i keep going with the idea that i can't predict the future .. so i went for a wide butterfly.. if it jumps due to closing options trades tommorrow i'm going to be probably break even or good.. i'm...

It will get worse before its all.said and done.. that's why I risked only 82 bucks! And I was selling atm vol

Its gonna big big move or big volume implosion..but thats not saying anything! Ha

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/zynga-insiders-cashed-just-stock-crashed-144334658.html a pure pump and dump!!!

the question is how many did you buy!

To much downside risk for me. Cash secured not naked you mean.. there is an opportunity cost to leaving all that money tosecure the put.. I just think to myself Netflix is in a highly competive dying market with DVDs and so many big companies are looking for market shaft... no such thing as...

Never traded straddles... what about figuring on a run up before earnings and just buying a call.. if one feels there's gonna be a lot of positive speculation in the stock then I would think calls would do the best

Agree!!!!

Your a dangerous man....

This stock is now full of lead.. already a short sale restriction.. so with no one shorting the stock its down an additional 6 percent.. this is tanking!

i took a class in visual basic.. and i know coldfusion/php but web application languages aren't any good for this kind of stuff

this is where i'm at for 1:Â_BuyÂ_1Â_FBÂ_OPTÂ_AUGÂ_03Â_'12Â_24Â_CallÂ_(100)Â_ Â_Â_Â_Â_2:Â_SellÂ_2Â_FBÂ_OPTÂ_AUGÂ_03Â_'12Â_27Â_CallÂ_(100)Â_ Â_Â_Â_Â_3:Â_BuyÂ_1Â_FBÂ_OPTÂ_AUGÂ_03Â_'12Â_30Â_CallÂ_(100)Â_ debit .82 cents i'm not putting much down...

geesh i've got to get down with excel alot better then i am now ..

i swear that is the best way to play earnings.. theres nothing more predictable then the inflation and implosion of vol before and after.. i've bought options for bidu a week before earnings and did very well.. I planned on taking it off the table but didn't and the vol collapse put me right...

have you used them?