If using margin at 5% annual, I’m trying to see if selling a bear call spread makes sense. SELL DDOG 265 call BUY DDOG 280 call Premium say $700, margin requirement $1100. How would the thought process work?
**Thesis and Setup for Friday (Oct 2) contract** My profit source is IV crush. After earnings, implied volatility drops and the short option legs lose value, so I can close them for a profit. A change here is that I …
I was looking at some quotes for SPX on April 9th 2025. It seems spreads widened dramatically during the big almost 10% move up. It seemed asking prices looked correct based on option models but bidding prices were very low. …
I was reviewing the P&L on a paper-traded short strangle and noticed that my AI was calculating theta decay using trading hours. My understanding was that Black–Scholes runs in continuous time, so I searched this sub expecting a straightforward answer. …
I've been looking into GEX and options flow more lately and I'm still not convinced how useful either one actually is. I understand the idea behind GEX. Dealer positioning, positive vs negative gamma, potential support and resistance levels, etc. But …
not even about the money its the not being able to do anything about it. sold some puts that finished ITM, broker assigned me fine but then friday night a headline drops that sends everything sideways and Im sitting with …
Still learning the ropes here, and want to see if I’m thinking about this correctly. Say I have 100 shares of a stock I would like to hold onto long-term, while at the same time earning some extra money by …
I've been trading in ES options for a while now and have had no issues with it. For some reason I now find myself in a position to switch to SPX options\* and in my initial, shallow experiment I noticed …
We are looking to add support for another brokerage to the Optionsmith trading platform because we currently support Schwab accounts only -- and have many folks who want to use the platform but they are in countries where Schwab isn't …
My post was removed for low effort, which is ironic. The basic premise is that the underlying price movement is key in finding stocks as well as determining if the options are mispriced. Whoever reported it for low effort should …