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@smile Thanks for heads up about the risks with naked selling - it is certainly something I will not do for long time or ever, but was discussing it as a hypothetical trade. However, John Carter here is selling naked put in his strategy, right? And then buying it to close when IV drops down.

@smile it makes sense to me not to buy options when IV is extremely high if I am trying to earn on volatility change, but instead of buying I could sell them right? And then buy to close once IV goes down.

@eesnz Thanks - no I have not been long UAL - I trade only paper money for now and focusing on options. @smile Thank you for advice, scanning for stocks where I can make a better directional bet sounds as a good advice, as I would have somewhat less uncertainty in that part of my trade. Do you...

Hi all, Using high/low volatility scanner I found out that UAL has extremely low implied volatility (IV), as can be seen on the chart (box and whisker are for the year of data). I am assuming that IV will go up soon, and was hoping to exploit that by buying options while they are cheap (and...