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Yes you're right about buying 2 e-minis instead. but however if you bought 2 standard gold and 1 e-mini making 167 it'd be cheaper than buying 5 e-minis True, trading call options outright may be more preferable though it would take considerable money to buy one that's moving 60-70% of the...

This isn't really a metals question as much as it's a futures question but I'll use metals to illustrate the point. Alright so if I want to limit my leverage by simultaneously buying 1 Gold contract and shorting 1 E-mini contract in the same month effectively bringing my Leverage to 67 will my...

I tend to agree, I've had positions where I sold and then the underlying would turn against me for a day or two heavily and the premium would get close or double but I would still be very far away from the probability of being ITM. Reluctantly taking losses even if I still felt good about the...

I'm guessing that you're both saying concentrating on BE makes no sense because of all of the other factors priced into the option throughout it's life and you have to manage that risk day to day rather than trying to figure out where the the underlying will expire at.

Yeah you're right about about the option premium doubling happening much longer before I was trying to use it as a theoretical but I guess it doesn't work and I'm not asking the right question at all... so let me put it this way instead... I sell a naked call for $5.00 at a strike of 20.00...

If I sell a put for 5.00 at a $20.00 strike and the underlying is at 15.00... overtime it gets to 20.00 and eventually getting to $25.00 (my pain threshold -5.00) Now I know that an option buyer can exercise whenever they want but that it makes less sense when there's still time left on the...