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Options Questions Safe Haven periodic megathread | July 15 2026
We *call* this the weekly Safe Haven thread, but it might stay up for more than a week. For the options questions you wanted to ask, but were afraid to. **There are no stupid questions.** **Fire away.** This project succeeds via thoughtful sharing of knowledge. **You, too, are invited …
MSTR Short Strangle -I hope it should work for me!
https://preview.redd.it/5wjun7xvg7dh1.png?width=948&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f8a7eaa2d68b1e814608e398d8f0b66592fd26f https://preview.redd.it/boem6izxg7dh1.png?width=976&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0ca506f6e62759bac94767e73ab85420f789ffc SHort Strangle #MSTR with BE of 79-110
IBIT Update: Big money is actively adding to the July 31st 39.5C position. Tape breakdown inside.
Following up on the IBIT position I established yesterday on the **7/31 39.5 Calls**. I’ve been monitoring the tape closely this morning, and we just had a massive indicator that institutional players aren't just sitting on this strike; they are actively stacking more chips. Take a look at the attached …
A SPY 0DTE averaging-down mistake that cost me $1,514
Old trade, but still one of the clearest lessons I’ve had from trading 0DTE options. I’m sharing it because the chart and P&L explain the mistake better than I can. I had a bullish read on SPY and bought 737 calls at the 9/21 EMA. This was a 0DTE trade …
Wall Street has had this view of the market for years. Now it’s coming to retail…
Retail operates with almost half the information that institutions do, institutions MINIMALLY spend over $32,000 annually on data alone. It would cost most people’s retirement account to access their lowest tier of data. A critical piece of this data is being able to see market information in the form of …
Unusual options activity analysis: massive institutional call volume clustering in crypto surrogates
I’ve been monitoring institutional flow using a customized Option Hacker setup in TOS designed to track short-dated momentum (filtering for high intraday volume relative to low OI on OTM strikes). Today, the scanner flagged some concentrated, non-index institutional volume clustering in major crypto-proxies; specifically the **iShares Bitcoin Trust ($IBIT)** and …
monthly fully time trader ama
Hey everyone, setting up this month's AMA to catch up with everyone and chat about trading! It's set for 15Jul @ 3pm PT. I've been focusing some of my recent posts on research to try and encourage traders to begin doing more of their own. For this to work well …
Global Option Hours Brokers
Other than IBKR/Robinhood, are there any other brokerages or platforms you can trade SPX on from 8:15p-9:25a? CBOE article starting on July 13th was to offer even more tickers including Mag7 to trade extended hours but can’t do this with many brokers currently.
Your close out percentage
What’s up, I was curious if you guys have a percentage that you look to hit when closing out your options.. Asking for both in the green and red, is there a fixed % you stick to when closing out for profit or setting a stop loss?
selling spx spreads based on volatility expectations
Curious to hear if anyone else has a similar strategy that works. I havent tested this enough to confidently say its profitable, but I believe it should be. Basically built a tool that looks at 0dte greeks on SPX chain to estimate dealer positioning and analyze the relative compensation for …