When I check MSFT it was at 25.60ish. The 26 straddle was around 0.50. Already lost around half its value of yesterday. Time decay in action.
Weekly Poll: Will Buyers Knocked Out By Expiration Put Up A Fight?
- Thread starter shortie
- Start date
Are they going to hit the stops of bears first or of bulls first?
Is there such as thing as the butterfly effect in markets?
Is there such as thing as the butterfly effect in markets?
"butterfly effect" 
Butterfly effect
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Point attractors in 2D phase space.
The butterfly effect is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. Although this may appear to be an esoteric and unusual behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position. The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with "what if" scenarios where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.
Butterfly (options)
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Payoff chart from buying a butterfly spread.
Profit from a long butterfly spread position. The spread is created by buying a call with a relatively low strike (x1), buying a call with a relatively high strike (x3), and shorting two calls with a strike in between (x2).
In finance, a butterfly is a limited risk, non-directional options strategy that is designed to have a large probability of earning a small limited profit when the future volatility of the underlying is expected to be different from the implied volatility.
Butterfly effect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Butterfly effect (disambiguation).
Point attractors in 2D phase space.
The butterfly effect is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. Although this may appear to be an esoteric and unusual behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position. The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with "what if" scenarios where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.
Butterfly (options)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Payoff chart from buying a butterfly spread.
Profit from a long butterfly spread position. The spread is created by buying a call with a relatively low strike (x1), buying a call with a relatively high strike (x3), and shorting two calls with a strike in between (x2).
In finance, a butterfly is a limited risk, non-directional options strategy that is designed to have a large probability of earning a small limited profit when the future volatility of the underlying is expected to be different from the implied volatility.
I wish it could reach 111 for SPY and 46.25 for QQQQ for today. I could almost hear the sellers talking at those levels--Listen, and you might hear them, one of them is discussing shortie short sale what he scratched. 
I might settle for selling slim calls.
I might settle for selling slim calls.
Were expecting a 100-meter dash?
2:47PM: the buyers in the last two hours upmove on EUR/USD are now about to face the sellers. Let us see what the clash will lead to.
3:04PM: sellers pushed buyers from 1.2930 to 1.2915. Is this reflected in stocks?
