Quiet times

[stockoptionstrader]

Hi all,

Markets seem boring the last couple of months, just going up.

Who else is waiting for some volatility and spikes up?

When do you think we'll see some decent down days?

 

[SteveM]

When do you think we'll see some decent down days?

Once a headline crosses that the tax-bill doesn't have enough votes to pass.

 

[lawrence-lugar]

Markets seem boring the last couple of months

Who else is waiting for some volatility
When do you think we'll see some decent down

If you're bored and impatient waiting and doing swing trading and/or investing...try to apply those same principles to Day or intraday trading.
Do that not on plain vanilla stock, but with leverage/options. I guarantee you you won't be bored.

'Merry New Year'...'Turn those machines back on,'

 

[TradingDemystified]

When do you think we'll see some decent down days?

Once a headline crosses that the tax-bill doesn't have enough votes to pass.

Who knows ! People said the same after the failed Obamacare repeal and it happened 3-4 times already (lost count) and here we are at all time highs.

 

[Chris Mac]

Remember Oct '14
Same story
No vol, no clouds
All time highs
S&P -10% in less than 3 weeks

CM

 

[STD Deviant]

Not too quiet today.

I got long this morning and longer even still at the bottom of the mini-crash. What an impressive rally. Lots of hope left. My Nov,17 short strike is 50 points away after that bounce.

The big drop is coming - sooner rather than later I think. I'm trying to figure out a strategy to capture a nice portion of it when it happens but I just keep coming back to buying a ton of SPX puts - like 50 days out. I certainly don't want to be selling anything as Vol expands to the moon.

Any ideas?

 

[drcha]

No credit spreads, no VIX spike, no flat yield curve