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Used to be in the old days the specialist/dpm/llm whom ever was running the book would take out the decay as he saw fit on a friday or a monday and a lot had to do with his firms position. These days with most stuff being multi listed and even the few single listed index products there is a...

You have no way of knowing if they were buy to open, buy to close, sell to open or sell to close. Nor do you know what the initiator of the trade did vs. the calls. So that volume means nothing

Your companies compliance dept would tell you not to trade company options

Forget exercising them... There is no good reason other then a dividend or a special M & A event to early exercise those options. All you need to do is buy them and then sell them when you want. You dont have to worry at all about anything but praying the stock goes higher. LDK is listed...

Please tell me you're kidding? If you're right then I have to go back and re-think this entire place. Are you sure that people lie on the internet? Come on are you really saying that some Joe from behind his keyboard in his parents basement is pretending to be a big shot hedge fund manager and...

its obviosly just an example and this didnt happen

European options dont have to settle into cash. A 100 lot in options is not that big a deal and if you offered them a dime or 15 cents below parity they'd be scooped up. Thats only if its a very illiquid book. In any book thats listed on 3 or 4 exchanges then a 100 lot is tiny and the market...

lol

not sure what that has to do with anything that running was asking about ?

No I am not here to learn to trade, not that I believe I could not learn from some people here, but I have 20 years in the business of trading options. I come to ET to read the interesting questions and discussion on the markets and options in particular. I believe its a total waste of time...

Running, It would be so nice if trading were as simple as selling into an opening rally 15 minutes into the day. unfortunately the markets a little more random then that. There have been some reasonable reversals in the last few days off the opening but its not a constant. GOod luck to you...

Mike well said in all of your posts here on this thread. One of the reasons I started reading ET was because its supposed to be better then the crap on yahoo. Yes its fun at times to mock the phony traders and their internet muscles and internet wealth over there but ET was, at least I thought...

Just a quick word on mispricing. Think about it this way. AAPL is traded on 6 different exchanges so there are a good number of market makers covering AAPL options. Do you think its likely that every one of those firms and all the thousands of firms who trade and send order flow to AAPL would...

The free site which is decent is www.ivolatility.com click on basic options. For free its not bad at all.

Care to share even a shread of data to back up that claim about the European markets openings? humm ?

too funny I have to comment again. Yea all the shorts are out now they all covered tonight I mean look at the volume... Oh wait that volume is what 1 /100th of the daily volume so far... yea they all covered

ROFLMAO

Every electronic order has an eStamp with the time. (out the 1/100th of a second usually)

Hit the bid Sid

You mean you're locking in losses on stock which has moved in your face with shorting calls? I dont get the impression you've been trading options a long time, no offense. You're basically saying when your delta moves against you then you stop yourself out with options rather then hard delta...