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What is the typical longest expiration period for which you have been able to find trades that satisfy your minimum return requirement? Could the ATM puts serve as a good benchmark for the OTM short put returns? Were the annualized returns of short ATM puts (when successful) in the range of...

I thought there was a chatroom somewhere in this forum.

How do you decide on the value of your OTM safety cushion (for instance, does it vary as a function of the time left to expiration?)?

I believe we are talking about two different volties: You seem to be addressing the realized volty, and I was discussing the implied volty (the one priced in the options)?

The purpose of the questions/posts are different from what you may have understood. It is not a math test/etc. Let me now comment on your above quoted piece, as it may be useful to explain that the numbers maybe useful. The fact that you impose a credit range (assuming a given OTM safety say...

What is the volty of the stocks, viewed as a group/index, on which you have active short put positions? Also what is the range of implied volty of the stocks. My guess would be that your stocks might have an implied volty (at your strike) of around 40% when you initiate your trades?

What was the IV on the stock and at the strike when you initiated this? Is the OTM safety wrt BE or wrt the 25 strike? Was the stock at 29.79 when you initiated this? Do you use an option screener? If yes, which one?

Once the zits are gone and the head a bit clearer, why would the zitters buy the 5?

I never understood why those who bought it at 700 did it.

SPY at 143.82. How much could a short trade lose and how much could it gain and what are the probs of each?

SPY at 143.82: Are smart money bears around the corner?

12/12/12 @ 23:30PM: EUR/USD at 1.3090. Are short sellers/profit takers around the corner?

That is propaganda. The chinese were brought so that Singapore be sloten from the Malays who are the original people's of singapore. When the Japanese defeated the British in Singapore, Lee Kwan Yew worked for his Japanese masters, while it was a Malay who stood to fight the Japanese until the...

On Gfinance, all jan option volume today is in one strike and in put options only. Why?

USO is not a stock in usual sense -- it is oil?

What is the time value left in your short put?

The call did not rise much. Stock at 38.30, but the call rose only 0.30, volty must be declining significantly.

Your approach is flawed.

How do you handle V bottoms?

If the bottom of this down leg were to be somewhere between 37 to say 35.5, and would happen in next 0 to 2 days, how would the dec 39 calls do? They were trading around 0.40 at close today, and today's stock price bottom was around 37.