I was obviously comparing the r/r on 1:1 contract basis.
As a rule of thumb OTM ( back months) drop less when common fall and rise faster as common levitate towards the strike.
Also gamma/delta risk is much higher on atm/itm.
I received this one from the wise man woodie:
woodie008 wrote on 02-05-06 01:09 PM:
I can understand why you would be
exhausted.
"Steve--thanks for the insight, I will reply in mdue course: I have to got to bed, it's almost 5:00 am here and I am feeling pretty exhausted:
THAT'S...
uh??
what's wrong with otm options?
I trade them on a regular basis and are the vehicle of my choice.
are u suggesting atm's/itm's carry less risk magnitude?
if something, on simple strategies, it's exactly the opposite.
Multiple positions should hedge each others and insurance could be bought with discretion. If u have 5-10 pos u can always monitor them by keeping the order book open for each one of them.
Why do u care about spending so much time posting useless stuff in order to prove your point; is it worth it? it's so childish, I cant believe some of you have so many posts under their handles. Life is short and too valuable to waste it like this.
Get a grip on your self and change your...
Using stops and let them being hit is the equivalent of exiting in a panic; or at least, the effect is the same.
And yes, a stop is like a bird flying at close proximity to an experience hunter: he won't resist the temptation to bring it down.
Sooner or later u'll realize u can't compete with no BP and no experience against black boxes thousands of time faster than your brains. I hope the time will come before your account go boom again.
Depends: the only things worth daytrading IMO are earnings, so, it's good to be active every three months and employ as main strategy swing trading stocks and options; sometimes I look at futs and commodities but still maintain longer time frames bias and approach.
Nice crap; I don't believe a word u are saying and I think u are lowlife underachieving poser looking to get the attention u didn't get during your short, pathetic, dominated by failures, worthless and pathetic life.
how on earth can anyone be bearish in this mkt?
mkt shook off big concerns with such resilience! The worse the news the better the reception and the more the inflation the merrier; can u imagine if a piece of good news come out what is going to happen?
Earnings continue to be great, I don't...
Steve--thanks for the insight, I will reply in due course: have to go to bed, it's almost 5.00 am here and I am feeling pretty exhausted.
All the best.
Tried to troubleshoot it and stripped features bear to essential. I mean if cpu is always stretched (and not to 100%, but 90-95%), it seems logical to me that more powerful one should breed easly.
That's the problem the OP is experiencing, are u saying that he's got no cpu problems too?