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How would you hedge (with stock or with other options)? If you hedge with stock, what would you do with your eventual gains in volatility if the option is not deep in the money?

What is the probability that SPY visits the 172 area before the end of this week? Back to the theme of the thread, would it be useful in one were to think in terms of types of demand such as discretionary buying vs. forced/mandatory buying?

3. Yen rising tonight. If it is used in the finance of long positions, what does this suggest?

How did you find the action at netflix?

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:-) You are right! I noticed from the tone of your past posts that you were sensing the downfall.

It is 2:12P now. SPY at 175.50. This is an example where I look at the price, and I do not understand why anyone would buy at this price (if it were discretionary buying). From my perspective (and I could be wrong) I see it more likely to visit 175.25 and below (before it would go higher if it...

It took it only 25 minutes to fall from 390 to 365. One dollar per minute!

I would not be surprised if it gets back down to the 365 area tomorrow or later this week.

If you understand why people buy at a top, could you share it?

Is he an ex-market maker? market makers aim to capture bid-ask spreads, so I do not see how it can help a trader who want to grow an account?

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Are you sure the analogy is complete? In the gym case you have all the necessary but also SUFFICIENT ingredients to make it. In the options case, a market maker could be flat (to even losing to some extent) but make it from the bid ask spread. So one can learn to be flat from discipline and...

Do you have the historical ratios of move/straddle?

It is his money and I do not bash people whether they win or lose. I think that the trade he made was good not because he won it, but because I think that the option he bought was really cheap (again not because he won, but because I think it was cheaper premium than what it could be/should be)...

Congrats! You deserve it. Do you plan to start a permanent thread dedicated to trades like the one you posted here? I just became aware of your thread now, but if I knew about it I would have definitely followed it.

Good comment!

Do you know if there is an online calculator of touch probs for VXX. I want to know the touch probabilities of strikes 13 and 13.50 before the end of this coming week (Monday Open to Friday Close). Close price was 12.87.

Do you trade it? What is the prob that it would touch 13.50 this week?

Colossal returns may mean different things to different people. Let us maybe refine the definition to 5 arbitrary R:R categories: 5:1 , 10:1, 25:1, 50:1 and 100:1. Such returns take place in the options market, such as in near term option chains of underlyings after gap or a big/fast one...