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Worst that can happen is a big move in either direction losing the debit cost of the position.

Anyone know of a source for an Excel spreadsheet (free) that calcualtes IV given all other inputs? TIA

Thanks for the info but that still involves looking at each EA one by one. I'll play with it and see if I can generate a comprehensive list.

Volatoiletry is when IV goes into the crapper. VoilaToiletry is when you happily find the crapper! :)

Is there a way to get the output list to show the earnings date? TIA

Summer doldrums? The past 2 weeks were my best of the year. But bring on the crash! More is better !!!

With stocks like BIDU, pre EA IV usually expands significantly and ATM money straddles don't perform anywhere near as well as you expect due to the double sided IV crush. For example, in February it moved 47 pts and the straddle made less than 10 pts. Apr was a better story since the move was...

As an investor, one of the hardest things to do is to buy good companies when you feel the worst about them. An extreme example would be DJIA under 7,000 a year+ ago. I'm glad that I'm no longer an investor :D

It's not stupid if it makes money for you :)

LOL. There's no easy way with anything.

There are many sites that list EA's but most tend to be daily/weekly lists and you have to pull down a day/week at a time (Earnings Whispers, Briefing,com, TheStreet.com, etc.). Tho not as accurate as most, Rightline provides EA's for the next few weeks. You and get a list of all optionable...

Is it really important to you whether I read the question?

The ones whose stock price moves around the most intraday (percentagewise).

The technicals are saying: Buy sheep, sell deer!

It was a wonderful week for trading and if Greece's finances were to slide into the Aegean Sea, I'd be eternally grateful! :)

The ideal time to close a position is when it has the greatest gain - only newsletters know that (g). The problem is that you only know that in hindsight. So the only thing you can do is draw a line in the sand and run a real or mental trailing stop to protect a gain and that's no guarantee...

It's linear ATM

If you trade clean and don't need a lot of hand holding, IB's low commission schedule is a winner. OTOH, if you need a lot of customer service, you might be better off elsewhere. For me, a big bonus at IB is the ability to scale in and out of positons w/o that pesky flat fee per trade penalty...

If you ignore B/A slippage and commissions, assume that all moves happen the day that you execute the position and pretend that a long put or call can have a delta of 1.3 or so, then there's absolutely nothing wrong with that graph! :D