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Maybe, but at least I'm not a liar, nor am I an overconfident lousy trader.

It's not an investment, dipshit. Furthermore, it never broke below $130.50 after your premature egloatation, so not only is foresight not your bag, neither is the truth. (They have pills for the premature "issue".)

You ready to eat crow? How about you, themickey, you ready to feed me some beans? Jackasses. It's the worst aspect of this place. Suffice it to say I made the right call and you genii fucked it up. LOL.

Took off half the calls @ $2.85 for a negligible profit. I'll watch the rest. (Watch it drop like a rock now.)

LOL . . . SOXL is up 6% from the point where I purchased these calls and I'm still a bit underwater. I'm gonna get vanity plates that read "IH8VOL".

There may not be a detectable difference between a crash and a bear market as the event unfolds, but I'd sure rather have a long put in place instead of relying on my "signal" or whatever to tell me to exit a long stock.

Great, thanks.

Anybody know of collar studies showing expected performance? You can find them for buy/write (covered call) strategies, as well as ETFs for same. Obviously the short call reduces the drag created by the long put, but it caps gains, too.

Sure, but can I have your beer?

So, what I said? :)

Food for thought: 1. I would remain open to rolling your puts if the market continues to trend higher; otherwise, you are losing protection. 2. I would definitely explore the time decay for a given amount of downside protection as a function of time to expiry

That's God telling you it's time for a beer.

Yeah, that makes sense. Maybe selling OTM puts would have been a little smarter. I wouldn't have screamed about assignment.

Sure, I can use underlying + option price information, days to expiry, etc. and back out estimates for initial and current volatility. I remain puzzled that volatility dropped when price dropped, and not an insignificant amount.

Like I said, I don't have the volatility data at my fingertips, but it's hard for me to imagine a significant volatility drop on a price drop. (I had to change brokers and I am not able to access the same level of data I used to. I'm working on that.)

FCC axed Net Neutrality and qxrs immediately goes away.

Yeah, in the absence of dividend or interest rate influence, volatility must be the answer. I don't have the ability to see that information, or at least I don't know where to look. It's no fun to take it in the shorts on the way down without even a reacharound on the way back up. Is this...

FYI, the price of SOXL has now rebounded to above where it was when I purchased the calls. Midpoint is currently at less than half of what I paid. Ask is barely above that halfway point. Theta decay doesn't even come close to explaining the price decline. Hence, the thread.

I don't recall asking for advice on the trade itself. I'll let you know when I sell so you can stroke yourself and feel big time . . . unless i make a profit. Twat.

I get it, everyone on here is a trading guru, but I'm just a schlub engineer trying to augment my retirement portfolio. I dig math, so I'm drawn to options. I backtest to the degree I can. Then I hope! I am not a quant by any stretch of the imagination but I'll bet dollars to donuts that...