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$DELL and $COST EA Trades - Post Mortem
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. Yesterday I posted about two EA trades, long gamma on …
SpaceX IPO
Does anyone know if options will be available to trade on day 1 of the SpaceX IPO?
Selling Covered calls on AI related stocks and throws my call deep ITM
Need advise from pro traders if you have ever been on this situation before. I am a swing trader and have been buying stocks of some distressed tech like SMCI and ONDS, Nokia recently. I short 10-20 delta Weekly/Bi-weekly covered calls and till now has been decent income. Suddenly these …
Help managing my BB Bull Call Spread
Hey all, So last September I opened a large number of BB $7 calls expiring Jan 2027. Since the stock fell a bit and traded pretty flat for the first third of the year, I started to sell off some of my calls, and later converted the remaining calls into …
CBOE to list Binary options on June 15th
The CBOE announced they will start listing Binary options on the XSP (mini SPX) starting June 15th. They offered binary options on the SPX some time ago, but discontinued it due to lack of interest. Looks like they will give it another try. Link to details, [Update - Cboe Options …
Rolling deep red CC(or CSP's) way out and up.
I am far from a pro, so do get in trouble, writing CC or CSP's on volatile stocks like LUNR, RKLB, IREN, and not watching them closely, as they get redder than Sydney Sweeney's blood when she's in heat.... Anyhow, my most recent roll was 3 Sep $40 LUNR that …
$DELL and $COST Earnings Today ATC - IV Rich for One, Cheap For the Other!
https://preview.redd.it/gp9g85pclx3h1.png?width=1345&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e428771dec7cd57f7e971265f0fb4f7a1e529f9 https://preview.redd.it/xh5ptrtelx3h1.png?width=1345&format=png&auto=webp&s=434cb16955195cd47578f027f9da3dd9862c53b2 Earnings season is winding down, but I have identified two high EV trades for today. Both Dell ($DELL) and Costco ($COST) are reporting after the bell. Looking at my standard metrics of historical moves, standard deviation of moves, vol crush, and several other vol surface metrics, I've come …
Is it smart to sell strangles on MU?
I started selling strangles on MU. I’m sticking to <30 DTE with Delta below .2 and -.2 on both legs. Made 20% on one I opened up before market close yesterday and just opened a new one.
Mechanism hedging
Since GEX, Delta, and Vanna levels represent mechanism hedging exposure rather than real directional buying or selling, is the idea that on the first touch of a major level like a put wall, call wall, vol trigger, or pivot algos and market makers react aggressively to rebalance hedges, that creating …
Rate my strategy
Hi folks, This is what I do \- IVP on the higher side (50+) \- No events like earnings, major macro events etc \- Minimal movement (<2% on either side) I sell a strangle in liquid stock options under this criteria 40 mins post market open and close it around …