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I'm amazed that you have gotten the charts to actually work. I haven't. Can you see all the data that you want to bring down into the .csv?

The curve on the (call) upper end (long side) is cheaper. I also take a few DITM calls, cover them and break them into closer to the money calls each week. For instance, I may take a 60pt call, cover it and sell (5) 12 pt calls that have little intrinsic value. That way, with a small drop near...

I'm pushing up some DITM sold calls and buying OTM calls (a few weeks ahead) to limit losses as we continue to grind up. I have that feeling that we are going to fall off a cliff at some point - if only temporarily. I think the selling will be panicky when it finally starts and I want to be...

Every day, we stay "glued to the ceiling" in terms of being at the high of the day and just pushing and pushing and pushing. It's actually my fault because I have been mostly short this thing from around 1500. I have this power. When I give up, we will turn.

It was probably a BUYER trying to drum up some volume to pick up. Based on the slow upward march since the open, it seems this market is just surrounded by buyers. Inventory is low on the sell side...that's why we keep doing this upside slog.

You are already more diversified than I am! I trade the SPX and RUT and that's about it. The OP was considering individual equities but worried about specific name event risk - dividends, etc... That takes more work and knowledge to track all of it, and I've found that I don't watch the...

I trade exclusively index options. The lies told by corporations and book cooking just got to be too much for me about 10 years ago.

Cocaine is a very powerful drug. Rick James - 2009

This is a joke, right? Is this an actual movie?

I use IB but whatever broker you are comfortable with will work as long as they can effectively trade spreads. Weeklies give you so much more flexibility and granularity in terms of offsetting positions, rolling out and tapping volatility in precisely the way you like given your vision for...

I thought they were trying to knock down these knee jerk drops and sudden swoons in the indexes by computers? I hope there's more to this in the details.

CME seemed to be up the whole time. SPX contracts coulda laid off some risk over in ES.

I do them on ES options quite a bit. I think it's the best game in town.

Noble prizes are much easier to get than Nobel prizes.

I had money disappear with IB too. I wrote a bunch of naked S&P puts in 2008 and 2009 and watch TWS every day. I don't know what happen but I watch TWS every day and each day some of my money disappear. It mystery to me why only naked put cause all my money to disappear when market only...

I often take an "80% approach", although you should substitute any percentage that you are comfortable with. Since the market feels a bit capped here, I like to buy an SPX call and sell 2 more (15-20 points higher) for a small debit or maybe free if there's enough time left. Let's say we do...

We are indeed witnessing entertainment here these days. Between your jackwagon stalker and the apparently futile attempted education of PM over in the Options forum, we've clearly devolved. I think it's great that you put yourself "out there" and subject yourself to these invasions and insults...

Actually no reason is required...and they are incapable of logic.

There's also April 5th, which is EW1 for April.

It will crash.