What is your preference option strategy?

Quote from commiebat:

Long calls are probably the hardest way to make money trading options.

It took me 8 years of experience, but there is surely NO EASY WAY to make money trading options.

You have to be an excellent stock picker,

You have to be an excellent risk controller.

The only way they're "simple" is that they're a one-leg position, but you can get that simplicity in three other ways.

Can't recommend those three other ways.
 
Quote from atticus:

Dual replication -- intermarket [index1/index2] vanilla fly deltas into exotic NTs with switch-hedge [futures time spreads]. Short lookbacks; lookback strangles.

I am proud of myself, as, I actually understand about 40% of that.

:)
 
Quote from PretzelPiece:

You have to be an excellent risk controller.

You have to control risk no matter how you trade options.

The tricky part about buying calls isn't the risk, it's the reward. Specifically, you have to be a good enough stock picker that there is some.
 
Quote from RichardRimes:

MTE
I'm very interested in your IC monthly...do you "set and forget"? do you adjust? Is there a specific delta that you generally sell? thanks!

I may adjust occasionally, however, I'm not a big fan of adjusting losing trades so it is a "set and forget" type of system. I'm not looking for any particular delta, my approach is based on estimating future volatility and then selling 1 st. dev. away from the current spot price.
 
Quote from MTE:

I may adjust occasionally, however, I'm not a big fan of adjusting losing trades so it is a "set and forget" type of system. I'm not looking for any particular delta, my approach is based on estimating future volatility and then selling 1 st. dev. away from the current spot price.

TY :)
 
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