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I am struggling a bit to find the best hours to intraday trading the Dax; So far I have come up with start the day at 09:30 CET and close everything at latest at 12:00 CET with the exception if the last hour is in inside bar. Starting again in the afternoon proofs to be more difficult so I am...

English is my third language but that doesn't hold me back from posting in it ...

what's with the fucking chinese or other language on an english site ... less than 1% understands it and it's fucking annoying ...

I speak from experience: I blew up big sellling puts 25 years ago when I didn't knew options yet too well, mostly only from book reading

be carefull to not overleverage in the put selling a lot of bright minds have seen a blow up like this happen to them. It''s the same old story everytime: either the market 'can't get any lower' but it does so or either people start to see put selling as free money in a market that only goes up...

you are asking pretty basic questions ... better read some more option books ...or else also get more info at the exchange ...

yes, but slightly more expensive if you are an active trader. also don't think you invented the wheel by selling naked puts, quite a few people went bankrupt just doing that ...

wow and this is called ELITE trader. An index future can't go below zero cause it would be arbed away in real life if it even became close to zero. Financial future = spot + intrest carry costs. for oil future there are storage costs involved, it's these that brought the value below zero.

there is no such thing as maintenance margin in an account that doesn't use leverage ...

the explanation about sell to close is wrong. You open a buy to open first and later close that with a sell to close. With a covered call it's an sell to open first, if you want to close that position it's a buy to close.

as soon as the put gets deep in the money or is in the money at expiration date you will get assigned.

and you forgot one thing: it's stupid in a really big way just sell the call at the last day ... everything is better than to really throw money away ...

if you only know so much about options you should be reading books and not trading them ...

why oh why take such a stupid pin risk ??? the market might open 20% lower on monday and what then .... if you just sold the call nothing of that kind of risk. Things can be simple unless you start making them complicated !

This remains one of the most stupid threads I recently seen on ET. Like I said before just sell the option the last day and you don't get any kind of trouble like this ...

nothing irrational about banking an in the money option ...

but you haven't answered my reply however ... sell the option at expiration date seems the much more logical thing to do in my eyes

why just not sell the option at expiration date, seem the much more logical thing to do ...

As far as I know he just changed his nickname again. Couldn't say to what however. He used to have another one too ...

more like 3% at best ...