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Well you were only in an hour (it looks like) so the market may have gone up in that hour. But even if it did drop, the key to understanding option pricing is volatility. If volatility dropped, prices will drop across the board. Obviously, the price will rise a bit because of your delta and...

Mark Cuban has a blog and he had a quote on there that stuck with me. He said being an entrepreneur is the only vocation he knows of where you only have to win once. You can fail 100 times, just have to win once and you've made it.

Any publicity is good publicity. Go with the flow. Take that quote and put it on your giveaways, say it's evidence that you have above average returns.

Hard to make a comment without more information (like, the strikes you ae looking at, and whether they are ATM or not) but I think I get the nugget of your question... The simple answer is probably gamma - it is higher for the near term short ("his") option. That means delta will change...

I use TOS and OptionsHouse. TOS is very very good, having the risk analyzer right there is a huge plus.

Not in the public market. If you are capitalized enough, you could have an investment bank price and arrange for someone to take the other side on an over the counter basis. Like, Warren Buffet has SPX puts out 15 years.

All good responses, here's one more - One thing you are missing is the loss befoe you get assigned. Here's what happens - - You sell the put and count the cash. Great! - After a week, the stock falls a couple of standard deviations. but still not to the put strike. However, the put has...

I get 3-10%/month from option income strategies (condors and calendars). Getting better though... haven't had a down month in about 8 months.

I've heard from some TOS customers that they are considering lowering the threshold to 50k.

Just came across this site and I'm impressed at the advice and background of alot of the members.... I'd like to hang around and participate, so thought I'd introduce myself. I've been trading income option strategies for a couple of years, and after some serious hard knocks to start I've...