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Absolutely correct unless it's a pre-existing equity position that one wants to protect.

You might have to think this out a bit more. Assuming you're collaring with adjacent strikes, how do you get out of one strike range and into the next w/o going ITM (call) and having to pay dearly for the roll? And if you're not ITM, would you roll??? An automated trading strategy? Might...

Golly, what makes you think that I found your nosy prying questions to be insulting ??

Does that have something to do with Coach's choice D ???

I'm an inmate at the Spiro T. Agnew Minimum Security Memorial Facility. After we finish our license plate quota, we get internet privileges.

Varima Barf and Hidden Agenda are asking the identical question across different ET chains and sucking up to Mark. How cute! "What is your education and professional background?"

I don't disagree with the statistic since I have no stats to support or refute it. If one aspires to being the "average retail trader" then one should accept w/o question what the books and studies say. I'm just suggesting that one needs to figure out what works for you... not what someone...

I served that up to you on a silver platter WITHOUT the apostrophe :)

You live in Dallas? You're my biggest FAN TEX !

>> That's a delicate balance I have to learn. Since it's hard to sit there and watch the price go down, but I believe (when I've been long the call) that it'll come back, and it has. But had I reacted I would have put myself in a more complicated position. << There are times when acting is...

I'm just a poor factory worker trying to make enough money to bring my family over here. It just broke my heart leaving my brothers behind.

>> I have a fairly decent understanding of reading charts through my futures trading so i see decent spots for option trades. Im able to analyze the option trade my broker suggests and learn from that. It's probably a good idea to get a broker that specializes in options as it can be confusing...

You can turn it into a lot of things and it's important to know what those things are. Or maybe you just tweak the position a bit in order to shift the risk graph bit. But don't wait for a tanking to act/react. One of the things that Mark W posts and that I seriously agree with is that risk...

If the stock no longer exists the option will be adjusted to make the underlying the same thing the person who owned 100 shares received for the stock. So if the shares are worthless, a put will be worth its intrinsic value. It would be helpful to be short shares, short calls or long puts if...

Actually, you're dead wrong. He has a lot to say... just not much of anything worthwhile :)

He's around but he's not available much because he's consumed with the paper work of the patent application for his new invention, The Putz Zapper.

Interesting article. Who's Mark Wolfinger? :->)

Yep, weewilly's replies were well thought out and covered a number of possibilities. There isn't a cookie cutter answer to your question. What one does going forward depends on your outlook for the underlying as well as your reward objective versus risk tolerance (fear and greed)...

Speaking in generalities, the success of a strategy is usually dependent on selecting the appropriate one for your outlook as well as the environment you're in plus managing the position whether it gets ahead or behind. There's nothing wrong with your parameters as long as you're finding...

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