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I don't see any harm in what Live_vol does here. There aren't that many useful option threads really sometimes anyway. It's not like it fills up the thread count and noone else can post or anything. Everyone doesn't always notice things happening in a stock. Live_vol seems to try point out...

Yep - CRM I think NFLX will get it someday, but I don't want to venture a guess on when. Also, I stick to my prediction that AAPL will not hit $500/share lol. JJacksET4

Yeah, I think that is what he means as well - except that I think he is referring to selling a spread in this situation. To the OP: If XYZ is $47, I think you are saying you see examples that say sell the 45 call and buy the 50 - in practice you see sell the 50 call and buy the 55. Either...

His name may have the word Mac in it, but it looks like a PC to me with Windows XP lol. I would agree with the others in general - if you don't see anything you are missing with your PC, then a new high end PC probably won't buy you much anyway. On the other hand, if you make a killing in...

You need to use better numbers - if the stock is at $100, it is impossible for the 40 call to only cost $500. If the stock is at $100, it would be more common to also buy a Call in the 100 strike range for protection, not a 40 call. JJacksET4

Ok, so he thinks all his employees are stupid and should just quit!:D Seriously, one more thing I wanted to mention is that I see these people all the time - people living the life (according to this article) - welfare, food stamps, medical care, section 8, etc, etc. I see how wonderful...

I agree with this. The author if fairly blatently trying to exaggerate his claims. "Most private workplaces require drug testing, but there is no drug testing to get welfare checks.". I have never had a job require this (of course I'm sure some do, but MOST?). The medicare thing is nuts -...

RamaTrade is correct. Options especially when they have fairly large spreads are really better for larger, slightly longer term moves. For example, say you expected GTLS to drop to $25 by Dec 17th at least. If you short 100 shares - you get $2797 and if you are correct and it falls to...

Please convince my company to move there :( I could afford 3 decent sized houses in TX for what my condo here costs! Any BTW I voted against Jerry Browne, Barbara Bitcher and amnesty for criminals like they support! I support this as well: http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/...

Simply that options give you options - you mention one SPY call example and act like that shows that all options are bad. You SIMPLY CANNOT (sorry for the CAPS, but for emphasis) do some things with stocks only that options allow you to do. Here are some examples of why people may trade...

Here are my opinions: 1. Read live_vol's threads- he often references if he feels there has been a "buy" or a "sell" - he has legit reasons for his beliefs and you might learn something if you study his threads. 2. Why does it really matter to you in most cases? If someone buys 1000...

I use the listing updated from McMillian's website each week. Here is the link: http://www.optionstrategist.com/free/analysis/data/index.html I made my own quick VB software that reads this in and can give me whatever list I want from it. Note that sometimes when stocks have super...

Thanks for the link - I didn't realize that. I can't say for sure of course, but I tend to think there would be at least as much volume for something like daily options on AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, etc as there is for some lightly traded stocks that are still optionable. Also, I think sometimes if...

I have to admit these videos are pretty funny. :D

I have thought a few times about things that would be interesting to see added to the world of options and I thought a nice weekend like this would be a fun time to write them down and see what people think. This is really just for fun, please don't take it too seriously - I am not saying I...

See, we get news that would have crashed the market 200+ points not long ago, and now it can barely stay down! JJacksET4

In general for books that discuss options trading it is much easier to focus on profit / loss at expiration. How can you show the reader what the profit / loss is at other times as easily, when the IV at the time isn't known? That being said, sometimes P/L charts do show dates such as 30 days...

The way the market's been, it'll probably break even by mid-day and indexes solidly green by the end. :) It's just been amazing - there simply aren't any bad days or at least not 2 in a row anymore! I have to admit I didn't see it coming this strong. JJacksET4

Interesting information there - I honestly wouldn't have guessed that the market had been up in these time frames more often then it has been down despite the overall drop in the market. What I would be curious of and would be interested in backtesting would be if there was a way to improve...

In reality though, they can't squeeze juice out of a 2 by 4, right? In other words, the award could have been $500 million and it would be basically the same thing - she won't be able to pay and some judge will probably lower it to $10K or something. Not saying my opinion either way about...