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So, does this means that for many put side credit spread people, this month was a loss, regardless of CTM, ATM, FOTM? The only one that was safe was the way, way FOTM 4 sigmas credit spread. I ask this because a lot of people have used this drop as an opportunity to blast FOTM credit spreads...

so, it looks like the SPX 1385/1375 put spread that I sadly closed out last week will not be for naught based on CME's futures right now. Amazing how something went from 75 pts OTM to being run over by a speeding train in less than a week. The call spreads ease the pain a lil....but only a lil

so, some of the various business news sites are suggesting that the last hour is due to people closingout positions before the weekend so they dont get caught with their pants down over the weekend. That being said, I hope Monday will see an influx of money back into the market if there isn't...

that is a pretty cool graph

yeah, I hear ya coach. But with VIX being higher than it has been for months and us being 2 weeks away from exp. and this being a friday, the finger is itching to pull the trigger and put something on the other side of the RUT 830/850. Dont know if I'm gonna sit this one out or jump back in...

The market seems to be returning to normalcy. I'm thinking of putting on some Put spreads. whaddya think? another massive drop before 15th?

If everyone and their mom is now trying to learn how to short stock, does that mean we'll now see the market rise back up?

4....4 is the same as death 4=si, death=si, different tones

One thing I learned this week is to close a spread when you have made most of the profit from it and not risk the whole margin for the last remaining fraction of a point and commish. On monday, my SPX 1385/1370 put spread had made most of its profit, between time decay and the run up from to...

I closed out my SPX 1500/1510 call spread already....to open another RUT 830/850 spread btw...nearly crapped my pants when the SPX was @ 1385-1383...closed out my 1385/1370 put spread for a painful loss, but, OX live help did help me get close the the mid of the b/a spread...we'll see if I...

Famous Famous last words? Honestly, I think that most people here have no idea whats going to happen next. I need to stop reading these threads about what our fellow "pundits" predict will happen next.

the worry about spooking is because of my previous put spreads that went from being 80 OTM to 20 OTM in one day and no way to exit @ a sane price.

yeah, impossible to get a realistic exit position. But i feel like someone made huge bags of money from selling off the VIX from yesterday to now I'm tentatively starting to relax the sphincter...but I dont want to spook the market...btw, i put on a RUT 830/850 spread

geez...looked for some good deals but it is impossible to see where a good price pt is...the bid/ask spreads are so friggin huge!

yeah, its pretty crazy, they had some economist on saying that this is just the beginning of a 5% drop within the next few weeks anyways, I'm doin my happy dance right now...if it does actually go 5% before March expir....wont be so happy

yeah...I hear ya the dangers. Any put calendar from Sept to now would have been destroyed (especially if opened @ debit). I guess this strategy with the long month really banks on a huge drop by May or so. In another scenario, imagine if Nov. and Dec. were relatively flat or slightly up and...

so....I'm thinking the bull run can't last much longer, it's gotta drop, at least by May right? I'm thinking of selling a March/June SPX or RUT put diagonal spread pretty far OTM and sell Apr and May too, with the expectation that it's gonna drop like crazy sometime around May at the latest...

NVM....found it

Hello. I was wondering how to find a value for Dow's TICKI in real time. Is it something that can be accessed on retail brokerage websites in real time or is it something that requires a more complex trading platform

problem with SPY is that you can't get even remotely close to the OTM position as you should be able to on SPX and get the same % return. The RUT looks tempting tho...it seems that the last monthor so has been really tough for index spread trading.