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db have they reinstated your drug privelleges? Look don't fret; I reckon it'll be a matter of days before he turns up again, 'new' & yet un-improved.

Derivman, OK, so your instructor has given you a rudimentary lesson in permutaions and combinations! 64 ways to buy & sell options. . .his credentials are becoming more obvious with each of your posts. Honestly, in light of your last post to me, it is entirely clear that one of two things is...

Hehehe. Now you really are making me laugh. There are only two things you can do with options. Buy them & sell them. Simple. You have to understand what you are actually doing when you do either or both at the same time - with respect to your risk (ie:greeks). I have met hundreds of...

Cheers db. . .going to bed soon. My trading is done for the day. You're not up screen watching are you?

The same skill that a trader of ANY financial instrument needs to learn - risk management. Without an understanding of where the risk lurks in any position (real & theoretical) you are dead in the water.

If I might I would like to offer some thoughts for you with respect to this kind of questioning. Mostly they are not mine. They are from one of the best thinkers regarding risk taking in the world today. . .Nassim Nicolas Taleb. He also knows just a tiny bit about options trading. "There...

I second what opt789 posted. Early assignment will happen as soon as it is cheaper to replace the long with it's synthetic (wrt cost of carry etc).

ROFLMAO tradermojo - damn the guy must be frekkin d-e-s-p-e-r-a-t-e to go to this much effort before springing 'the trap'. And I thought I had too much time on my hands! OK, done here. Thanks tm!

db, did you fall down and bump your head?? Would you ask your mum to take your temp please! :p

Hmm. Just to be clear, nowhere did I say any of your questions were off topic. I do still wonder what your response is to the clarification of the statistic regarding the percentage of options which expire worthless? Was this not of as much interest to you, given that it disproves your...

OK, so for the sake of my own learning here, please entertain these questions, kind sir. This completely 'off topic' post gets a thanks for the valuable contribution, but cold hard facts pertaining to the questions you ask go through to the keeper? Are real, properly presented facts...

I have to say that to draw a conclussion of profitability based upon such a statistic (even if it were true - sheesh!) is nothing short of hilarious. In any case Derivman you do need to brush up your 'research' skills and gain a much deeper understanding of where to go for your information &...

Just one observation. Any time you initiate a 'time spread' that doesn't include the near month option &/or includes the use of LEAPS, you are not really exploiting theta decay, rather making a volatility bet.

OP I have read all 19 pages of this and I don't think the ET guys were hard enough on you & certainly not as hard as I've seen them be. This could have been a very costly lesson for you esp with an animal like AAPL & you seem to be oblivious to that. What you are doing IS dangerous & it...

Bob, actually there was a very well known reason why the IV spiked sooner than usual - MacWorld. It is an annual event whereby the market has come to expect some big announcement from SJ. I haven't checked myself, but I hazard a guess that each late Dec/early Jan the IV spikes earlier than it...

Forget it

Come on now db, Timbo a homosexual? No way, he just isn't very good with the ladies! ROFLMAO

db, yep he's right & I don't hide it, just like Mav doesn't hide his multiple personalities around the traps. I gave WL the right of reply obviously & on purpose by coming over here & joining in. It was the sporting thing to do after explicitly pointing out his antagonistic ways & knowing that...

Hi Bob, No impression about it, Alex did agree with Mav for the most part and said so a couple of times. Also agree that it is a shame Mav let himself be pushed over the edge by Steve - whose posts are sometimes wanting due to a language issue I believe (perhaps not a native English...