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does your charting software not have tools to show it, or a way to script the calculation yourself?

if you're just going to post trades you make without any discussion as to why you made them, get a twitter instead

that's the one i read anyway. he's right though, a lot of the stuff won't necessarily make you money (unless you run a book of exotic options at a firm i guess), but it's a very interesting read about risk management on an option book (vanilla or exotic) is it relates to the non-linearity of...

a good portion of the book is about managing convexity, specifically as it relates to a book of options. other books tend to focus more on managing individual position risk

Just to be clear, you started trading options 2 weeks ago and you're turning 35 spooz lots at a time? don't you think maybe you might want to start w/ 1-2 lots?

premarket options quotes aren't going to be accurate, which will give you these goofy prices on spreads. check it now that the market's open, and if it's still there, sell as many as you can because it won't be there long

Sometimes the best answer to questions like yours is simply "read." The first part of your question is a very foundational piece of understanding options (breakeven for a long call), and there's so many great books (McMillan, Natenberg, Hull) already written that already explain these concepts...

First off, it's great seeing you guys debate/argue, since I've been diving in the books to try and find some rules of thumb for relationships between greeks for my small portfolio, particularly delta/vega, vega/theta, and gamma/theta. Any recommended reading sources (books or papers) or is it...

greed? I used to watch the show every day but with all the cherry picking "studies" and refusal to show P/L's or portfolio snapshots I can't help but think it's just a way for them to sell a service, which is now commissions.