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IV_Trader, The guy you saw at Vegas may have worked out the details of it or is licensing the work of someone who already did it. Do you please know of any literature on this or the name of the guy who did it?

Glad you avoided the loss! As in my above comments, I told you that Spindr0 is an expert (he was too humble to even accept it!). An expert in this forum is the guy who can help you make money or avoid lose money. Spin just showed it! If I were I would send him a nice thank you note.

Do you mean that the price of the call would be infinite or that the loss can be infinite? (The losses of the stock can infinite, but the price is finite). Assuming that you mean that the call price will be infinite, that was also something that, at first, I thought would be the case. But...

That is exactly one of the questions I had in mind. Assuming a positive carry, here is how the put can be priced. You compute what is known as the exercise boundary (there is a theoretical formula for this). Once the stock is at or below the exercise boundary, then the put value is the...

Bill Clinton is one of the best presidents that the USA have had and would ever have. The guy is smart and selfmade.

Tying up cash? He is writing, so he is receiving cash and can receive interest on it. Did I miss something? I see the main problems as rather paying larger bid-ask spreads, he can be assigned on the put side if the option is deep ITM, and also the treatment of margin can be different...

A perpetual option is an option that never expires (the expiration time is infinity). Does anyone know whether such options trade (or are considered for trading in the future) in a US exchange? I have read somewhere that the Philly exchange was considering them, but I do not know whether that...

The market is looking for "excuses" to retest the lastest lows. From there I see stabilization or an up move (but I will wait and I see until this is confirmed before putting money in for the long side). Typical bear market behaviour...

Who the f* you are to ask me question in a non polite way in the first place, and to assume any f*ing thing. Now back to business. There are multiple reasons when you should CC rather than write a put. I will give you one and I will ask you to provide the other reasons if you are qualified to...

swingman, I allocate only 10% of my portfolio in speculative trades (specs). I play specs with verticals, and keep rolling them. I use volume, macd, bollinger bands, and SMAs. As you may have imagined, there are other skills of the trade.

To those who disagree with me: I am not here to convince anybody, but to say a point of view, and I am entitled to my point of view like anyone else. I respect all points of views including those that differ from mine. An opinion is just a point of view, and is not a truth until it is...

Rcanfiel in his post says that I included links in my posts. Show me where I did so. I challenge you. Facts do not lie, and people can check that out for themselves. You should stop writing until you stop making lies, and if you have the courage of a man of truth you should apologize to...

If you have the direction but concerned about volatility, I would also consider the idea of buying an OTM butterfly. Place the short where you think the stock will go. OTM butterlies are real cheap. If you only know the direction, but not where the stock will land, I would place the short...

My comments on this Mr. Rahu: "If volume pushes price like our fat women push the plow in our sacred fields, how can there be tens of thousands of shares traded with no change in price?" Do the following experiment and than talk to me. Wear your sneakers so you can jog. Go next to a...

The public seem to have all of sudden discovered leverage that has been there for a long time. Did you know that the capitalization of google is 50 times its earnings? The concept of stock price is a form of leverage. In this case one can argue that it is justified, but one needs to...

I visited his website once (I recall that he is a guy who lost a lot in the past, and then recovered after realizing that he needs to write things to understand himself). He also compares options to fruit (which is a decent comparaison, but there are far better). My overall impression was...

Unless you know something which sure information, that is not how you play earnings. There ways to play them: 1. Vol play (buy vol at the money, sell it out of the money). IV_Trader is I think the expert on this. Check his posting. 2. Reverse calendars. (Spindr0 is the expert on this,check...

Reading the text of the person who started this thread, it seems to me that what he has in mind can rather be implemented by: 1. Selling a straddle. 2. Buying more strangles than staddles (for instance 2 strangles for each straddle). The profile at expiration should look like letter W. I...

Scoobie, I take no offense at all when someone has a different opinion, particularly when someone is polite like yourself. But I can assure you that risk free trading exist. May be the definiton has different meanings to you and I, but it is likely that you just do not know about this yet...

Scoobie, You mentioned that you are a "beginner", but I think that you have a lot of promise. I think that you will do very well in the future (if you are not already doing well). I read the part about 1,2 ratio using puts that did not work well for Feb and Mar. I thought whether one...