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The investment bank isn't going to let you go buck wild was options on margin as they will know they will be holding the bag when you run out of money.

Options save my portfolio this week. All traders should be in the options some level, but I highly recommend you don't do anything crazy without at least a couple months of paper trading.

If the options aren't expired they're not worth zero. I'm guessing you're talking about options that are zero bid at five cents. Although those are technically so far out of the money they will unlikely never be in the money, but it does happen, and the zero bids have a small chance to have...

SPCE coming back down, perfect!

That would be true if I was talking about coming in and buying the stock, certainly not when I'm intending to do. I'm looking to find a point when this thing comes crashing down and jumping in and buying puts or some other type of multi-leg option trade.

If you sell a covered call in the stock and it gets called away, never re-buy the stock at the inflated price. If you still want to own the stock, just sell the put on the same strike price that the covered call was on. Here one of two things will happen, if the stock drops below the strike...

Covered calls are a great tool, and over the long run, will outperform people who only buy stock. The idea is your limiting your maximum profit potential in exchange for guaranteed income. This guaranteed income can be used to offset a downward movement in the stock. If the covered call is...

Virgin Galactic is like a mini Tesla, every day it's exploding more and more. At what level does it make sense for your hat in and jump on the bandwagon?

Yes I definitely do calendar spreads to, almost put a calendar spread on this week, but decided to do a risk reversal instead. Really just depends on the situation. But calendar spreads are definitely good strategies.

What I think ETraderJoe is saying, is that he bought stock in Tesla and sold an upside call against it. But as it turns out, if he would’ve only bought the stock, and not sold the call, he would’ve made way more money. By selling the call against the stock in essence he capped his maximum...

That would only be true with many thousands of contracts. The stock price movement and volatility changes are going to be a way bigger factors in price. Anyway, I really just wanted to discuss different strategies, in my opinion, selling premium will win out in the long run.

I'm not sure I understand, but I think our win rate is represented by the amount of effort we put in each trade. Often times losses are generated due to random events that pop up. For example, I'm still concerned about the coronavirus and the events that can transpire over the next several weeks.

Interesting question, no one's asked me that before. Our trades on average last about 30 days, with about 50 trades per year and winning over 90% of the of them, we are going to have a far better return on capital than someone else doing 100 trades and winning only 70% of them. We put...

I don't know about incompetent, but McMahon certainly seems like an ass.

I never sell naked options as a recommendation, all my recommended trades have defined limited risk. I do a lot of vertical spreads, butterflies, and iron condors. However, in my personal account, I do sell short-term straddles and strangles, but I definitely would not recommend anyone do that...

My team and I spend about 4 to 8 hours a day researching companies, but that's what I do for living. We then post our research reports on Option Strategies Insider.

Perhaps, I just assumed it was as the original XFL was.

The WWE is a highly risky stock, if the XFL ends up being a success I expect great things for the company. However, has any professional football league ever stood the test of time against the NFL? The XFL already failed once and I suspect it will happen again.

The strategy that works the best for me is highly researching a company, establishing an opinion about where the stock is going to go, then sell premium against the position with about 45 days to go till expiration. This is a sweet spot when options decay quickly. Here we want to rack up many...

That is certainly one factor, but I would not say it's the only factor.