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i think i had your opinion on another threat-(and that of riskarb and other experienced traders too)-that's i want to discuss it more in debth.statistics is an interesting science!in average every american eats meat with pasta-but some have a lot of meat,other only pasta:)) if all the...

how many years of experience do you have? and what's between earnings?

no opinions on volatility?i expected a long and hot threat:)

does anybody have data/experience/opinion how acurate is IV?is the market often right predicting the following moves of stocks?is predicting vol.(reversing to the mean)easier than predicting stock direction as often stated?

thank you riskarb!it seems you understood my question and gave me an exelent theoretical answer! with strangle vs. straddle comissions(i mean combined-comissions + spread) i mean that in the case of strangle often you don't have to buy back the one leg to close.

it seems many don't understand that i'm not looking for a winning strategy.i'm was working good with market and stock predictions for over 8 years.i look to leverage a little my trading-thats why i try to learn the option strategies! so -i rewrite my 1 question again: assumung i think the...

if the dispersion looks like a camelback the premium is unwarented only regarding indexes

what's your point?earnings release is not important?

it's simple-my time is not infinite-thats why i want to concentrate on knowing well strategies that work often.a handfull of stocks and handfull of srtategies is better than miriads of choises you don't understand well! reading mcmillan i had the impression that selling premium is not a good...

thank's for the extensive answer!i agree with you on many things-but not all:) first i need to clarify my pozition,because it seems most here don't understand my intention. i'm relative new to options,but not to investing and how markets work.i'm not looking for a winning strategy(i agree...

what's your opinion-is an iron condor better than a butterfly?it seems that the condors are preffered on this board

is it a good idea to make the iron condors diagonal(buy the hedge long term) if you intend to trade this underlying for longer time?this should increase the profitability!

that's my intention too-small profits often.but everything lower than 20-25% per year is not enough-i made 15% only with stocks the last 5 years! by how much have you beaten the market these 3 years?

hi was reffering to his previous post-see p.2

i just finished reading mcmillan for 2 time:)its mcmillans advice to use indexes for selling premium-because of lower risk.if i have understand him correctly IV on indexes is most of the time higher than the following actual volatility.so there should be profit-not much-if you ignore costs.but...

:) you are right,english is my 4 language-but i hope what i write is understandable:) but i readed that thread:)i don't understand the mathematics,but the idea conforms to the dispersion of stock prices described by mcmillan-overpriced index options and fat tails.and of course hedging:)do i...

your strategy seems clever to me.what exactly do you mean with large cash reserve?how much?did you roll up(down)?

i started my studying some monts ago(not counting some years amateur directional trading besides stock picking).your answer is close to my opinion,but in the books i read i didn't find a lot of anwers-so i aks them here:) so:IV on indexes is almost higher than actual.doesn't that mean that...

of course i have to control the risk!i don't look for just one strategy-my intention is to choose them(starddles vs. strangles and risk managment) depending from the situation and underlying,but i have to know the odds generaly.unfortunately i lake long term experience:(

i don't like to much follow up action-i hate paying comissions! but with strangles you have much bigger loss if things go wrong(because of smaller premium received).i'm not sure what's better(matematicaly)-ignoring psyhology.what's you experience?how long time you traded that way?