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Have you ever heard of a negative sum game?

Did you study the fundamentals of the stock? Do you see the red bar on the day when it gapped down? What is the high of that bar?

short covering/stops being hit?

Which option series has the best volume and bid/ask spreads?

I noticed that at end of day IWM behaved differently compared to earlier in the session and to recent days: IWM lost more than QQQ, which lost more than SPY.

Models showed me a short side signal at around 20.80. Is the high of few days ago good enough? Where do you think it would go to if it goes down?

Is that guy the younger you?

I am not in argument neither with you nor with anyone else. The market respects facts only. If you really learned something, I would be interested to know what it is. I believe that learning that someone is making trades as they happen is not learning as the market tells that all day long. In...

What have you learned so far?

To get a sense of NUS behavior, I bought (market) yesterday at 32.83 when models gave me a signal and sold it today at 34.39. I could have gotten 20 cents more but I was not fast enough. +1.56. (+4.75%).

Chop keeps you even: why then not replace the chop trades with doing nothing as the latter saves you commissions and time?

Which were the best and the worst? How did you choose your strikes and expirations?

Why would a spike in IV work against a short ITM call? Shouldn't it be the opposite?

How to quantify " its current 10% safety cushion" in absolute measures and numbers?

NUS at 32.50. Where are those jan 30 puts trading now? $2.00 or more? In only two days, the buyers of those puts may have made 500%. A huge number if annualized! So the implied volty was high for a real reason. The market does not discuss with someone it just hits where it hurts the most: the...

Very interesting! Thanks. Do you have a link/etc to the math mentioned below. I think you are right, and my curiosity for the math is mainly to see what is hidden that may not be suitable to all people.

Then this does not seem to be correct.

Do those numbers correspond to fixed holding periods or to stops? If stops, what are the holding times?

Do you mean supply and demand of the options, or supply and demand of the stock?