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Thankfully I don't have to worry about routing my one lots through multiple brokers to avoid my my position being known. One day......

I'd agree with the concept of putting more of your capital in play as VIX rises to take advantage of more opportunities if collecting theta decay is a core strategy. I still have a hard time pulling the trigger on an undefined risk trades but I can see when trading with a much larger account...

I enjoy these studies. Curious about a more dynamic risk management approach of rolling up or down the untested side at 21 DTE or when one side is breached and what this does to the long term profitability of the 16 delta strangle.

I hope Black Tiger Shrimp futures make a return. I miss them. Has been difficult to hedge my annual consumption.

Narrow your spread or trade the spy instead. With a 40k account tying up a max risk of $4500 is more than 10% of your capital risked on one trade? Am I missing something here?

In theory if you place the buy stop stock trader at your option strike + the premium received you are now hedged as every tick up in the stock is offset by a tick down in the option until expiration. It's lovely but the risk is the price goes up then comes back down below you're entry price...

There's a line floating around that 90% of retail traders lose 90% of their capital in 90 days. Thus the reason brokerage firms spend so much of their income on marketing to find new accounts. If options are relatively new to you I'd set aside $20,000 to trade your strategies with for 6...

https://tastyworks.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/43000435174-i-got-assigned-on-a-spread-help-how-to-set-up-a-covered-stock-order video from tastyworks on how to exit to avoid margin issues.

My thoughts have always been if your a successful trader why bother the time and energy that goes into selling a system. I guess it's extra revenue maybe a genuine love for teaching perhaps. I don't think the world is full of complete charlatans. Some good eggs somewhere in that basket - Alan...

I'm still long some deep OTM calls in Tulip futures. Hoping to catch a black swan fat tail soon. Don't see any bids on my platform but there's always hope.

Curious what do you add to powdered water to make it turn back into water? I'm studying finance at Hogwartz maybe I can help.

Perhaps it's the Hindendberg report team loading up on long OTM puts for the long term demise of TSLA. Lol.

Continental Grain as well in the Old Days. Good book on the topic "Merchants of Grain"

I believe what your referencing is called option skew. In equities the greater risk is a collapse to zero and the skew is more relevant in pricing after historical big market crashes ex 1987. In commodities the skew is usually to the call side meaning calls trade at a premium to puts as the...

I would think the benefit to the option market makers and locals being able to hedge their positions and that of other spreaders and futures locals kept it as a reality. I would imagine to some extent the later close in the minis still fills this role.

Hi Charles. In 1996 - 2001 or so I clerked and executed hedges for a group of locals who made markets on options. At the time the minis traded in the Mid-American exchange with longer hours. Essentially if a floor local in the options pit went long or short a position right at the close and...

About ten years ago I posted asking about Cordier. Selling naked commodity options and only hedging by selling the other leg of what becomes a strangle seems like picking up nickels in front of a bulldozer. Works till it doesn't. I give him respect for the video. I do believe he is a man...

Your concern is very valid and the teachers work hard to explain the varied career paths in the futures industry and the real risks associated with them.

As the teacher of the course and someone who used to work before going into education with an option market-making firm at the CBOT I would like to think we do an adequate job of explaining the risks of trading futures. In fact we encourage the students to understand the risk that trading on...

Dear Traders, About six years ago Peoria Notre Dame High School began a project within our economics class dealing with futures trading. The lesson culminates with a mock pit trading experience (we then cover the migration to electronic markets and their pros and cons). In the...