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you are absolutely right...whenever i say call i just assume its out money and thats my fault...sorry...used to treating everything bellow the strike as if its a put...yes, if you are short deep calls, you need to buy stock on the way up, but for me, go out and buy some puts at the same or...

i know where i can buy the info...whats wrong with seeing if it's available for the asking...just trying to save some leg work...and why is it pissing you off so much...if i knew and you asked...i'd tell you...maybe...if you're nice

hedging can be an art form...some short gama guys trade the stock if they are long gama...gotta have balls and deep pockets for that...i like to use chart...will not buy more stock if if i see resistance on the charts...also, after the move up, look at the position...it inherently gets you long...

if i am a seller of 100 calls (assuming near month at the moneys) it is probabaly because i feel that i am selling them for edge, delta is easy...buy 5k of underlying...now i aquired a short gama postion...thoreticaly speaking if i sold the options at a higher implied vol then the average...

just figuring out who's here...while venting...curious about others background...i do have some questions...posted them in the options thread

thank you for your response...please dont think i'm avoiding the question...but really there was never that much thought put in to it...it was a very responsive way of trading around perceived fair value...given historical vols for the underlying and the options...buy low...sell high...hedge...

phlx...a lot of things over the years...all equity and index options of course

not so much to e-trading but to the demise of the floor...it's a lerning process...hope this site will help...stumbled on to it today

where can i get info in historical imlied vol, charts etc. for free! btw...i'm new here...duh...so hello to everyone...i will be asking a lot of questions but would like to think i have something to offer, having made mkts for the past ten years...so dont be shy and ask away

just wondering how many guys are ex-floor market makers and what they're doing now, seems to be a huge bias against floor traders on a lot of the e-trading desks, and maybe for a good reason if you consider some of the old timers in the equity and futures pits, but if the guys made a good living...

just opened an account with them today, will take a while to sort out the platform....any other suggestions as to what i should be doing other then funding the account and putting on a trade..i have never traded a customer account and would just like some basic recommendations that you would...

can anyone recommend a broker that provides a good risk mgt. software...like Microhedge...without the monthly fees...just starting out and would like a way to view a complete options matrix with all available strikes, bid/ ask and size, also very important...implied vol at current level and...