I’ve been trading 0DTE SPX and SPY options for about 6 months, but I'm struggling with fear and cutting winning trades too early. I constantly exit at 2% gains out of fear, only to watch those same contracts run 100%+ …
Recent days I noticed more Calls in the market. Twice as many calls than puts in P/C volume among semiconductors and AI names. I downloaded 1 year data, asked ChatGPT to run some test. There were 24 events in last …
Financing at 3 months currently using SPX box spreads is around 4.45% (anualized) [https://www.boxtrades.com/SPX/18DEC26](https://www.boxtrades.com/SPX/18DEC26) However, the 3-month US treasuries trade at 4.087% [https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/u.s.-3-month-bond-yield](https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/u.s.-3-month-bond-yield) So if I want to borrow money at the best rate it seems a better deal to …
I've had 200 AMD shares for a while and started selling calls against them, usually 30 to 45 DTE around .20 delta and for the most part it was pretty uneventful. That changed when AMD started moving and one of …
What are some downsides to buying a long dated call spreads on a single name or ETF after a major pullback? For example if I buy a call spread on a single name with a $100 spread, my break even …
I saw another post that mentioned a trader being restricted by Etrade for being a source of toxic flow, linked above. Toxic flow is defined as trading activity that costs a market marker unusual losses in profit. When a trader …
I recently faced an automated account lockdown on E\*TRADE due to what their risk management team flagged as a "High volume of micro spread orders". After a phone call with compliance and verbally confirming an acknowledgement agreement, my account restrictions …
Hey everyone, Like many of you heading into earnings season, I kept running into options calculators that were either paywalled, bloated with ads, or didn't properly show post-earnings IV crush. I spent the weekend building a clean, lightweight web app: …
Say you have a 70/30 portfolio. If you think the market is over-priced right now and don’t think there’s too much upside left for the next year or so, sell a part of your stocks inside your IRA without triggering …
I have a problem: I simply don't like any of the screeners online. I have a solution: I'm a software engineer, so I can just design one myself and save myself the coding time and have AI implement it. I …