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Whole bunch of call buyers here in this thread suddenly. I am noticing today a jump in IV. Good for my long calls (I got more yesterday - the...
If you haven't already, I encourage you to read page 1 (at least) of this thread. There are some important assumptions about what and why, at...
No grass growing under their feet - seems like they are doing something monthly or faster.
This is how I see things evolving as well, with most of the same motivators and actors. Two additions: the first is that I've seen posts where...
There isn't anything to stop it, and I think that the May oil contract going negative, plus the TSLA addition to SP 500 index, is going to cause...
I know I would appreciate it you'd post your observations and thinking as we're going along. I think that for many of us in this thread, buying...
I'd believe this. I think of the 2 tranches as providing a bigger window to make the purchases. This is what would really help - let some funds...
This is also my historical problem with buying options. My long term, buy and hold mentality, that works so well with high conviction stock, and...
This is aging well (from yesterday). In addition to the positions listed, I have also purchased Dec 18 600 calls and Jan 500 calls. That has me...
Or they just turn around and position themselves for a big and long run up. Great thing for market makers - they have the tools to make money in...
Keep in mind that different investors have different needs as well. One example I'm still wrapping my brain around is that I am personally...
My understanding is that for the funds that have licensed the S&P 500 index and provide a passive investment option which tracks the index, they...
I wonder how close to charcoal grey it's getting with all that up and down work it's doing.
If they buy the shares in an actively managed fund, and xfer them to the index fund and don't sell them to the index fund for a profit, then the...
I started Jan 500s and 700s. I like the late December options better for these, but I'm also hoping for a good sale opportunity right after the...
First time I've seen this idea in print: From my Fidelity news feed (I don't know if this link will work for others): Unavailable - Fidelity...
First up - not advice; we all make our own decisions and live with the consequences (good and bad). Thinking more about the inclusion and the...
I figure anything is possible. BUT it seems like it takes a few weeks for good news to get priced in with TSLA, and more importantly to me - it...
Short answer, yes. I would rather not have sold those calls yesterday, but hind sight is 20/20. Given what I knew then and why I acted, then...
Heh - not aging well :). Up $53 / 13% in the after market with the S&P 500 announcement. those new puts though! rock on :)
I rolled my final Nov 20 position, 385 puts, out to December 370s. The closing position netted ~80% and the new position is around $12. These...
The last couple of posts are particularly outstanding examples of the sort of stuff I was hoping to get exposed to in this thread. And I...
Good info, but I had to choose between Funny and Informative. You get Funny :D
I did some digging at Fidelity. As best I can tell you don't apply for Portfolio Margin - rather your margin account is managed using Portfolio...
Thank you for this detail. It's helpful and adds to my knowledge. I also understand that you're new to this - are there resources that you...
I'm actually responding to an earlier post, but this works as well. Do you have a resource you can point me to, for learning more about how...
This is a short strangle, and is functionally the position I try to stay in. As other posters, I try to stay far enough OTM that I consider...
I consider these entirely on topic. I'm of the belief that we can use the coal progression as an early indicator of what the other fossil fuels...
My own view on things. #1 - if you haven't already, read at least the first page of the thread. As the thread starter, I laid out a bunch of...
What was your thinking with that change? Did that represent a net credit (I assume yes), but what are you seeing in the market / how are you...
I've found max pain helpful. However, I consider the weekly contract max pain information to be useless until the week of expiration. And...
Remember that the monthly expirations have a LOT more volume associated with them. They've been accumulating contracts for months (or years in...
On the commission free close of a sold contract, Fidelity will do this at .65 and under. Pretty sure that eTrade is also .65 and lower. A pretty...
It turns out that this is a pretty big understatement :) I sold some 200 puts with shares a little over 400. That trade is still in my top few...
I typically don't try to sell options during off hours for fill the next day. It would actually be a good idea for me as I'm west coast and I'm...
My guess on the cash secured put is that your account isn't taking margin into account - it wants all of the cash to be available. That's a guess...
I like to actively close positions like that very near the end of the trading day. Being out of the money, it should be closable for .01 or .10...
I've wondered about that. It would certainly encourage being in on Friday, because 2 days of market closed with time decay ticking away sounds...
My understanding is that no, there is no reason. And if anybody can pull off the Trump campaign, messaging, and agenda then it has to be Trump....
I believe that for these short dated puts, option premiums will be higher the lower the share price is. For me, I use lower share prices...
I realize I misspoke, or at least implied something not quite right. In my close./ open scenario today, the "immediately" actually took more like...
I had a Nov 365 put that I closed today near $2 for an 85% profit on the position. there was still another couple of weeks, but only $2 left to...
#216384 @Artful Dodger posted this graph over in the main thread. What I get from it is that the Bollinger bands have been steadily shrinking...
I'll give it a shot. Read the prospectus carefully, and make sure SCO is actually going to do what you want it to do. When the oil market...
Cars produced, or units, also ignores the economic value. This is a pretty easy thing to miss, where we think and talk about units as a...
This is why I come here, and keep coming back. New ideas, new education; I learn stuff constantly from y'all, and I do appreciate it.
That's very good stuff. Consider your post to be the gory details, weighing in at 50 pages. My post is the sound bite version, saying...
I found a brief storage basics on hydrogen. Hydrogen Basics - Storage Brief as in a page. It doesn't really get into high volume and long term...
Another explanation is that we're around $2100 pre-split vs $400 earlier this year. We had a low of $80 ($400 pre split) as recently as March 18...
I haven't explicitly modeled the relationship but my view on solar, for most of the world, is the same - over build the solar, add some storage,...