How people are making money doing this is beyond me. The market unrelentingly just moves and moves and moves. Doing a short credit spread or condor is basically saying “I’m betting the market won’t move.” The stock market is equal …
**EDIT: the level of AI bots commenting is unreal, so just ignore them and report them.** The timing is from a complicated algo which contains fundamental, technical and descriptive as well as ownership components, but the trade formulation might be …
Hi everyone, I'm starting to trade seriously. I used to invest, but I never watched the news. I started looking at Yahoo Finance and Google News, but I get lost in too much news. Really, for example, there are 100 …
Quick search revealed some discussions in day trading subreddits, but didn’t see much of anything in options. Looking for some information on how people are using VWAP, Anchored VWAP and VIX to inform their trades. I usually collect premiums on …
Hi everyone. I just sold an IBM call Option strike at 265 which I bought after the announcement that US would invest in quantum computing stocks. I come from stocks and rarely trade options (and only with very small amounts), …
I've never held index options until expiration so all my knowledge about how settlement works is strictly academic. I'd like to find out from those who have first hand experience what happens if a vertical spread expires partially or fully …
https://preview.redd.it/eqytp9swv64h1.png?width=885&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed8405f15c9639636bc62ce8545f0f630e573573 Sharing with primarily for the "sell premium for income" family. The SP500 (using SPY here) often has risk premium, but often it's not a ton. 68% of trading days show an average of 0.98pts of vrp. this doesn't make …
i studied options for three months before starting trading them November last year, and am obviously still learning, with a \~8k margin account, over 100 trades in that time, almost all selling/rolling CSPs for premium trying to avoid assignment, wheeling …
Absolutely did so bad, though I did get 30$ off of corsair. Lost 40 % percent on tsla never trading options agian only shares
Quick question: If you have a trading strategy that wins 50% of the time and loses 50% of the time, can you still make money over time? I have two trades as an example that will help answer that question. …