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No different then any other straddle, any underlying that trades in AH can be traded vs the regular straddle too.

We all know implied will pop a bit more heading into the number. The question is always how much will they get pummeled and how quickly after the numer. The problem is there's a lot more vega in the options when they have a full month left on them

Actually the straddle in GOOG was a better set up not the strangle. Since there was only one day till expiration the straddle was, in a relative basis to other earnings plays that have more time left on the options, a better play. I think you'll find historically buying strangles or...

Open 1320 on Monday ? ROTFLMAO

Nice job you bought the dead low of the day and sold a couple pennies off the dead top. If you could post a few like that then I think people might raise a few eyebrows

Sorry the "no one has any losses comment" was a general statement. I always wonder why people preface thier posts here with stuff about their own accounts or wealth. In reality I was just saying there is no need to post about your profits or losses since none of us can open our perosnal...

I am not even disagreeing with you. I thinkn the near term future is fairly nasty. I would not be putting long term capital into the US equity markets at this level. Just my opinion but you're making a lot of asumptions about me that are off the market. In all honesty it sounds like we agree...

Why assume I was posting directly about you and not posting about ET'ers in general?

Who is saying the near term future is bright? Why are the gov’t actions a con job? They are using the tools available to smooth the peaks and valley’s of the economic cycle. This economy is not and has never been a pure capitalistic economy. The gov’t has its hand in the economy all the...

I don’t believe these days are all that extraordinary. Extraordinary days would be accompanied by VIX levels 75 to 100% higher then the current ones in my book. Then again I don’t subscribe to the manipulation theories which are all over ET. Pure free markets, aka pure capitalism does not...

BY definition if you’re a technical trader then the fundamentals are not part of your equation, and vice versa. Looking at technical’s and/or fundamentals is usually a good idea depending on your strategy. Either way looking at those wont tell you who is in what trade and when. I was...

everything is a fact on ET

its ET no one has an y losses in anything

So basically you want to buy when things look good and sell or short when they look bad. Have you broken any new ground here?

They're on every floor. Contact IB, I am not an IB client but I know they provide that service.

we'll see ... the markets starting to sell off here. i am not looking to get long the spy at these levels. good luck

10k is not huge

I think most the rational people with experience agree with you Austin. IMO its not worth debating since it does not happen. The najarian thing is silly. He's a CBOE member do you think he's going to publish DVD's that say the CBOE is rigged?

If you have access to IB's floor brokerage you can just quote the straddle and they'll make you a much tighter price live. Or quote the put or call with the future at the same time and they'll make you essentially a volatility market. You can agree on exact number of futures for the delta you...

Just going to chime in here... In case 1 you site, The offer would have to drop to 1.90 and then the stop would be triggered by hitting the next bid. If the offer dropped to 1.90, then they filled you and then they took the market back to where it was before that would be a violation and...