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Eduamon I´m still not clear, but thanks for the reply. You mean buy another straddle? DO not do, like the explanation on the internet says, by buying just more puts?

Okay I got a reversal signal for the trend. For the Long Straddle. I closed the CALLS and kept the PUTS of the Long Straddle. Then I went out one strike cheaper, as in the CALL BACKSPREAD, volatility instructions and bought a replacement order of CALLS at a cheaper price. Be...

Eaudamon Don´t know quite where I went wrong on your spread trade advice. Maybe you can clear me up on a couple of things. I was re-reading your print out this morning in my hammock on the verandah, waiting for the sun to come over the ridge. Your item 3 You state to DOUBLE THE...

To the new contributors. Thankyou very much for your advice and interest. Okay! I got to look up the PUT backspread, volatility, explanation. The strategy is to have a long straddle, and if it trends, for the CALLS side, then drop the PUT and re-open, buy the PUT at a lower STRIKE...

Hmmmn! I had planned to do QQQ as you suggested just after lunch on Thursday in CASH. Apple as a paper trade would be okay on paper. Is there a reason you suggest Wednesday? I know you mentioned it before. I don´t show a reversal of trend yet though. Maybe tomorrow. I guess what...

Ha! Ha! King Gypo. Thankyou for chiming in. Bit of cheer in here. Actually, my long Calls with the new indicator I´m trying is up to $132 and seems to keep me in the trend ignoring the pauses. I´m pleased with that, was just trying it in a trading range and might get whipsawed there...

"Now...you are holding long puts...twice...in a rising market with potentially imploding volatility...THAT is not related in any way to anything I have posted. OK?. SIMPLE is better. But I know most like it more complicated. This is why I suggested papertrading for a few months. You are...

Ha! Ha! Ha! Good one that. Bigger circuss come to town and gone broke. Good question.

For the long straddle, volatility trade, almost reached BREAKEVEN counting in the commissions. Maybe the volatility will pick up whenever it starts a bear drop?

With my new hourly indicator reversal, I almost thought I had a signal for a reversal, but apparently not yet. For the being constantly in the market with either Calls or Puts.

Seems to be much the same, volatility picture and the volume picture? I wonder how you get this graph in real time for something you are trading? Does it come up on an option calculator? I was looking for position X.

i was looking up the put backspread on the internet, and the graph example said it was a put_backspread_volume increasing example. You may not have had it on your example graph. I´m currently running three trade methodologies. Straight buying but continuously in the market. When...

I like simple, but feel chagrined ( see I wrote that without a dictionary ) that I do not know enough. :)

I just looked up that PNL graph examples. What got me very interested is how X was at the intersection of the curving lines and the straight line graph. How you figure that I don´t know? I think I just got put back a grade from Options 102 trainee to Options 101 novice.

Eduamon Don´t know calculas. I like the graph of he Put_backspread-increasing volume though. Volatility and volume often going together. Where did you get that?

Interesting stuff this morning. 1) Overnight strangle lost - $102 2) Straight Call buying + 18 3) Eduamon method ahead + 58

Ha! I´m just an uneducated hick. Self taught character that works with his hands, normally. Except now I´m old and so forth. Whats a PNL graph? :( got the convex and concave, but what is the nonemclature in this reference. Was that the PNL graph in your jpg ?

Rarely a long premium, delta neutral position will provide profits untouched to expiration. When you put it on, is because you expect something to happen, i.e.: Price to move fast one way, or the other, or either, or volat to explode or implode. What will make or lose you money with this, or any...

Eudamon I´m thinking on it. I can do that of course. Did talk with HELP at TOS, but they were not helpful. So I have a query by email into CBOE for more info. If I trade two STRADDLES using TOS default prices, That is okay for two trades they tell me. But if I leg into a straddle to...

Eudamon Yup! I am getting the picture. Long Straddles/straddles are for a volatility POP, or temporary ballooning. Sort of like somebody blowing a kids soap bubble into the air, and it floats on the breeze for a bit, but busts, or deflates unexpectedly. Maybe not much difference in...