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Agreed, but as to the last point, my now 2year-old trend triggers are a week into a short position, with no ability to trigger a buy-to-exit *or* a buy-to-enter order before EOD today (without popping a ridiculous amount, which I don't see happening). My hand is on the mouse though, and the...

3400 on froth (but good earnings/fundamentals) was the time to get out. 3000 on fear (but good earnings/fundamentals, albeit with *some* *inkling* of hurt on earnings/fundamentals for a quarter or two...) is NOT the time to get out. It is the buying opportunity of 2020.

Is this Jeopardy? Do we have to respond in the form of a question? Okay, I'll play: "Alex, what is a 71¢ max profit on a $22.40 purchase and a $7.11 call premium?" The rest of the numbers are irrelevant and will distract you. The only things that matter are the current price of the underlying...

Way off: what if the stock goes to $20? To $10.87? To $0.00? What happens to your covered call investment, for each dollar it falls below [$32.58 - $6.40 = ] $26.18? Uh-ohhhhh. :confused: [stock purchase - call premium] Returning to QQQQ example, the website is wrong w/r/t a loss starting at...

Holy COW! flummoxed! Joisey better'n we know! :wtf:

HEADLINE!!! "Market-wide risk mitigation by central banks diminishes returns of hedge fund risk mitigation strategies! and in other news... "Gravity pulls things down!" Jeez. Headline whores. :confused:

Argh! I did not recognize Gilead Sciences GILD -- too much index time -- I was thinking GLD. :confused: Anyway, nice call on viru-sciences. :thumbsup::thumbsup: (Still, I might have my hand on the mouse, would the headline drop and GILD not be mentioned...!) ;)

If the headline hit tomorrow, and gold fell 5% in a day, you'd certainly have made friends among all the shorts -- if that was your goal. :wtf::confused::(

You don't remember non-convex (flat) side-view mirrors?? And then, all the accidents with the "wide angle!" convex mirrors?? And then,..... "Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear." :D Jeeez. That aged me a few years just writing that.:rolleyes:

1) yes 2) there are 2-3 available online, including from IB. 3) IMO, shoot for trade *triggers* first. These don't depend on option market liquidity, allowing (demanding) you to respond with actual review/brainpower first. RPA/algo-trading with trends is nearly trivial. RPA/algo-trading...

The surprise winner of the Richest Places per square mile? New Jersey. :wtf::wtf::wtf::confused::wtf::wtf::wtf:

Doctors in The Vienna Institute For Viruletic Researches have announced their intention to release..... What are you going to do with that headline? Are your stops in place? There is way more right in world markets right now, than is wrong. This virus scare -- *worthy* as it is!! -- just...

:thumbsup: My reduction of "Let your winners run; cut your losers short." is "IN with a SHOUT; OUT with a WHISPER." This leads to lost (un-earned) profits in trend-continuation paths, but then it also invites further investigation for secondary trades (on completely unrelated triggers)...

Another angle, then... Notice that as value of the option increases, the proportion of extrinsic value to intrinsic value shrinks in comparison, to the point where, deep-ITM, your analysis should include simply buying the underlying. (It then boils down to a leverage/risk question.)

"Errrrrrm....!" :confused:

Sweet! Nice job. Nice {skeptical} approach to things. Looking forward to future reports. Just a guess, btw, but I'll bet your pick/algo is tremendously simple? Heh!

"Timing is everything." (Well, maybe not everything, but in Option-land, it is certainly a goodly third of everything. So, whether you're buying a single call or are spreading it off [to lessen the cost], your profit will be a product of the market move *and* the days-to-expiration *and* the...

Informative: https://khn.org/morning-breakout/covid-19-is-more-contagious-than-its-coronavirus-brethren-but-its-not-as-fatal-on-a-case-by-case-basis/ Informative and funny...

Very fair observation, until you consider the really scary part of CoVID-19: it's incubation includes a period of transmissability. Thus, you can transmit the virus without actually showing ANY symptoms. That skews the eventual impact away from just "How deadly is this?" -- it's...

Tufte rocks. It's now a goodly 40 years since his political economy work, and it not only remains as required reading, it's but one facet of Tufte's output. A personal hero of mine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte OH YEAH! THE TOPIC... Ehhhhh. (Thinking thinking thinking) In the...