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if 10 say yes, I would have to, don't want to dissapoint that many people. Thats why I rarely ask thast question unless I'm confident I can get at least 3 no's-and those no's are getting harder to find

I was being polite and thanking him for his response. Do not assume I was going to follow his advice blindly. I appreciate any feedback, thats why I posted and asked the question in the first place. I have learned that if I ask 10 people if I should jump off a bridge and 7 say yes I am still...

while you clearly lost on the trade, I would not say it was a mistake. Is everything you do that does not go your way a mistake? Your thesis was wrong recognize that learn from it and move on. If I research a investment and put a trade on and it goes the wrong way for me I think: the...

thanks I appreciate the reply/advice

my original thought was the front month would expire worthless and then keep the back month. Right now the options are moving in tandem bought with a set diffrence and that diffrence has not changed even though underlying has risen, I guess a nice way to watch time decay occur-lol.

Maybe a newbie question but oh well I bought a calender call on PFE 16 strike with front month August back month January. My question is: if the front month option becomes in the money (as it is getting close) as far as I can tell the only strategy is you buy back the front and sell the...

took you lotto advice bought 12 strike for 9c today, come on hard eight, mixing metaphors, craps refrence

"What if the success were due to the fact that he bought only calls in a rising market? What would that tell you about the viability of the system? A lot more information is needed before the bets are increased. And the fact that he admits that controlling emotions is so difficult - larger...

very good point, but beating back that temptation is something hard to manage

you should be able to see if expires today, most do unless you changed the good till date to something else. I know ameritrade and etrade default to expire the same day they are ordered if they have not executed

Would you mind to share a bit of your risk/ money management rules/ approach? Do you set target price to take profit individually? Nothing set in stone changes option per option. Basic approach is buy a call that in my reaserch seems undervalued. ie. the sock has moved 10% either...

also it does'nt need to be from the SAME buyer and seller, so in theory it could happen, I get that it would be quite rare. More thinking theoretical vs reality

I assume you are right (as it has not gone through yet) been pending for 2 days. I may try putting it in for 1-2c diffrence and see what happens.

Here are my option trade records for the last 6 months, If you look through them I wouyld say I have been pretty succesful thus far, maybe its beginers luck or maybe not. Feel free to show me lessons of mistakes or just laugh at some of the dumb options I bought and sold 02/18/2009 19:25:26...

i did not want to start a sh@#$ storm that seems to have developed when I worte buy I meant buy the option/trade or whatever you want to call it. Basically I have found a few stocks that have calender calls with a net debit of $0.00. I have not as of yet been able to get the trade to go...

I'm hoping some of the seasoned vets on this site can help with my request or anyone for that matter. For me the most time consuming process of options is looking for options that are priced attractively enough to consider buying. I have used ameritrades option screener and optionetics free...

I would like to thank wewilly for his advice on a strategy going forward. I may not have been clear, but what I was meaning to ask is: what strategies do people use in situations like mine, you have a succesful option trade going do you simple get out and take the profit or by downside...

I would argue that this trade had a cheap IV: 10c for option 10% out of the money w/ 40days to expiration in this current market, with still histroically high vix. I intially posted a question as to how to proceed in a trade and was attacked by the iuvory tower po pooing a succesful trade...

I do look at options as gambling, actually all investing is gambling- its just how one perceives the odds of there gamble. A pro craps player has ways to skew the odds to almost favor themselves over the casino. Option investors have ways to increase the probability of making money on their...

Relatively new to options but have had some early success with them, maybe beginners luck. Anyway here is my scenario looking for some advice. Monday bought MRK jul 27.50 calls for 10c, they shot up to 35c yesterday- whats the best plan of action a. just sell now take the quick profit b...