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You destroyed yourself. That is, assuming you clicked the "submit" button for your orders without someone literally holding a gun to your head.

That is already done in part, with Max-Pain theory. However, Max-Pain theory only considers the relationship between stock price, strike price, type of option, and size of Open Interest. What I am interested in (which Max-Pain theory does not incorporate) is the price the option buyer paid for...

I think a better question to ask perhaps would be : What percentage of option buyers would lose money (purely in terms of premium paid for the option) if their options were held to expiration? To answer your question, I would think, by definition, at the close of the last day of trading...

I don't think they were overly critical about your "Naked Straddle hedged" comment. I think they raised the question simply because as some people said before, they just don't like to see inaccurate information posted as factual for digesting by students of the market.

If you guys keep firing these shots over dreamer's bow, he will never share the secrets to selling Naked Options with us. Just when I thought it was getting easy...

Don't let the door hit you on the a$$ on the the way out...

where men pretend to be women to get guys to cyber with them. Come to think of it, how many verified women really are on ET?

bvam1, Are you asking me or telling me? Sure, the QQQ 25 Call CAN be bought for 5 (about), only problem is, the stock is @ 26.44, and not 30, as you presuppose in your example. Furthermore, the best inside market as of market close on Friday, on the Jan 04 QQQ 25 Call, was 5.10 bid at 5.30 on...

Without reading the rest of the thread, a heart.

Initially, wouldn't this require Buying Power of $60,000? $30 x 2000 shares = $60,000 Also, as previous posters have pointed out, all of your Buying Power would be used up by buying the Calls (which again, would not be priced at $5). Your margin requirement (#2) for the combined position...

Of course, the dividend payments will get subtracted. However, the price of the stock should decrease by the amount of the dividend on the Ex-Div date. So, your loss from paying the dividend is offset by the gain from the drop in the stock price, when you are short the stock.

Nothing probably, which explains the breakeven comment from earlier.

If you bought at the close you can't lose any more than $35/share. I can almost say with 100% certainty that it will not fall below 0, come hell or high water.

Or, those 55 views could have just been from you anxiously clicking the refresh button. How about next time "u" think, before "u" speak?

I guess if you can't do, teach. If you can't teach, report.

Or, how about this one... (market edge + execution) * leverage = profits - (lack of discipline * leverage)

I stand corrected.

Not sure as to that, but probably. However, I am sure that the man on the right in the photo is GEN Thomas Schwartz, who has since retired. His youngest child, a son, is a classmate of mine here at the Academy, as well as a good friend. If you all would really like to know, I can have him ask...

I suppose you are referring to "avatars"? Would you put your miniature hotornot photo as yours?

Equal right to trade?