Bloomberg flagged a single put spread on Brent yesterday I can't stop thinking about. Someone bought the $91/$90 July puts for May 26 expiry — 134 million barrels notional. Pays out roughly $129M if Brent drops about 19% in a …
I saw a video a while back that explained a general rule: price up + volume up = buyers & price down + volume up = sellers. The video didn’t mention IV, which I suppose could better estimate buys/sells of …
Me - gonna play but it's close. Gonna be long defined risk IC 2DTE. Reasons 1. IV 3 pts cheap vs current IV less Vol crush 2. VRP is -1.9%, 25th percentile 3. Risky part - NVDA doesn't have a …
BOXX is basically a fund that shifts STCG -> LTCG for the risk free rate. It kind of behaves similarly to a money market fund, but technically it's an ETF so can't directly use it as collateral for selling CSP's. …
The stop losses I know on an options trade would be pnl%, delta, time. Are there others that could be used as a stop loss? I have been primarily using pnl% at 200% though find that many trades get shaken …
Hi I’ve been doing option trading for a year and all I do is watch important news that Trump post on his page Truth, for example he post “We agreed on a ceasefire of 3 weeks with Iran… blah blah” …
$INTC. $RKLB. $AMD. These tickers have been on a tear recently, with nary a call to be sold. I think the sellers are back in the game. We're back to the point where selling premium makes sense again. It was …
I’m looking for feedback from futures/options traders who understand CME Globex execution mechanics, ES futures options, Market Protect orders (perhaps Rule 588 if done in 8 minutes time frame required?). I am a very experienced trader, a licenced fiduciary wealth …
Can someone make sure this gets to the right people who actually have the influence to change it? The "Rule of 390" (which designates you as a "Professional Customer" if you average more than 390 orders a day in a …
I'm adding more data about trades at opening and daily to my query and analysis tool so I can get better insights from my trading history. Thoughts on what I should be collecting? I'm thinking the IVR and greeks, bid/ask …