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All I can find is SHY. Pricing is choppy and it doesn't move as much as it's "elder brother" TLT. It moves probably 1/4 as TLT. Am I missing something here or do bonds generally have higher volatility than notes? Or SHY is a bad ETF but it's all we got outside of futures?

.... It's 4, but I guess you are combining the 2 calls with the same strike because you feel the need to correct me.

So I guess if an IC shares the same strike price for the ATM contracts it's called an Iron Fly? lol I've been calling it an IC since I'm more of a tradtionalist. To me it's still an IC, but I guess people can call it whatever they want as long as they get the combination right. To me a...

I guess based on this answer, you didn't even read what I wrote? Old spread Max profit: $133 Old Spread Max Loss: -$167 My reward/risk is ~ 40/60. If you're wondering how that's possible, maybe you should learn more about options. Also 80% of options spreads are directional.

It seems the Iron Condor can do everything a butterfly can maybe even better. You can even make IC's look like them by shorting the call and put at the money. Any cases you'd prefer doing flies over condors? The only time I ever used Butterflies was when I bought 100 shares of stock for the...

Hello ET, I did an experiment on a trade AXP today. I had a 102/99 put spread on at the beginning of the week, I was up around $40, the stock was at 102.80 20 minutes before close and AXP's earnings are coming out today. Being the "pro" I am, I decided to buy back the 102 put and sell a 103...

You got a Ipad at work then you're not even hiding it. Lol.I don't need charts or to place trades I have my phone for that. What I need is RT pricing - which I assume could be linked to my phone via bluetooth? If my phone is RT to the watch, the pricing should match no?

I apologize for being too subtle. Frankly i need something I can hide so my employer doesn't think i'm DTing during office hours. I completely agree with smart phones > smart watch. Except in situations where you want to hide. Smart watch Trump's all.

Does the watch itself need any installed software? When you link your phone to your smartwatch, does that mean whatever apps you see on your phone is on your watch? Has anyone ever owned a smart watch before or have traded on a watch?

I have partial access. I do not know how to use Bloomberg completely. My question revolves more around the Bloomberg website where they give bond yields and index information etc. It is similar to the CME website where it gives you all the specs about each contract you want to trade. I am...

They both provide financial information for market participants. Although I think Markit is more focused on derivatives. I don't see anything on Bloomberg with CDS valuations.. Or maybe I missed it.

According to fundamental beliefs, oil prices and Japan's economy should have an inverse relationship. Higher oil prices means lower GDP and the Nikkei should trend lower overtime. However, when I look at graphs between EWJ ( A Japanese ETF ) and our all-so-popular XLE, there is no real...

Thanks for this info. People usually advise to close options positions at 50%. Just that this magic percentage is a mystery to me. The underlying can go in your favor weeks before expiration and you can close out at 50%. Or it can hang out near the strike days or even hours before expiration...

It's got nothing to do with option holder exercising it. When puts expire in-the-money they always get assigned. My problem is the thing closed at 28.94. The bid is 28.97, the ask is 29.05 which is out of money. Now I think my broker is confused as to if they should assign me the shares or...

I sold a put option for an ETF at strike of $29. ETF closed at $28.94 on friday so my put should have been assigned. But it wasn't and it looks like the put expired worthless. The only thing I can think of is that the bid/ask is $28.97 / $29.05. Even though the ETF closed at $28.94 which is...

Assuming you hold to expiration, my profits for a $0.50 are usually $0.08 - $0.12 depending on how how the money the spread is. So for example a weekly put veriticle for XLE strike @ $64 would be worth $0.23. The $63.50 would be worth $0.16. The spread is worth $0.07 if held to expiration...

Well.. I hope you didn't long the ETF.. Looks like #5 is no longer true.

The MSCI brazil index EWZ rallied hard. Broke consolidation highs. Is there some event in Brazil that drove this on May 10th or is this an isolated EM event? I don't see US and EU have any big jumps on May 10th though.

Thanks all. Would you know any bloggers that only focuses on this pair?

Someone who only focuses on this pair. They have all the economic news that only effects usd/jpy? Perhaps we have a thread here..