Quote from opt789:
Well since you can't seem to see that I am trying to keep you from throwing money away, I will say that if you just want tight bid/ask then try the QQQQ or NDX. SPY is liquid and relatively tight bid/ask also, but when you multiply it by 10 to compare to the SPX you will soon see there are no good spreads with options. $1 bid at $1.01 is exactly like trading a stock that is $100 bid at $101. Would you trade AAPL or IBM if it were a dollar wide? So the huge bid/ask compared to stocks and futures and the added component that you don't seem to understand theoretical value, theta, gamma, delta, etc. should make you think twice.
If AAPL or IBM had 1$ spread, I'd be making a mint sitting on both sides... Seriously, that would be a dream.
Nothing that has good volume has a giant spread. It's impossible, otherwise everybody would be shaving each other by a penny until there is no more spread...
- mnx