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Building a Greek P&L attribution system for options portfolio
Hello everyone, I'm running a theta harvesting strategy on SPX/XSP and I've built a Python-based analytics platform connected to IBKR via TWS API that snapshots spot, IV per leg, time, and all Greeks (delta, gamma, theta, vega) for every leg, every minute. Current approach is per-leg Taylor approximation (delta/gamma/theta/vega buckets). …
Is this normal?
Hi I’m new to trading, options specifically, but I’m been I’ve trading for a few days and SPY has only moved three four dollars both was coming back to centralized price of $750. I’m trying figure out if the market is normally like this and how are people making money …
Dell call option for earnings report
I'm thinking about getting Dell 5/29 $310 Call for about $1400. I saw the dell started implementing ai servers the start of this year. What do yall think about the upcoming earnings and any estimates for expected price after the earnings meeting.
Pre Market trading for select options to begin in July
The CBOE announced they will offer option trading in a pre market session for select stocks beginning July 13. Trading will start at 730 am et to 925 am et. They will offer a 15 minute curb session from 4pm to 415et. This will be for the following tickers, AAPL, …
Leverage to scale my account. Good idea?
Hi all, I have been trading profitably over the last 4 years, making 3-6% per month on average (40% p.a avg.). My account size is roughly $100k, consisting of 50% equity and 50% profits compounded all these years. Would you take out a $100k loan on 6% annual effective rate …
Stuck in illiquid $14.5/$15 RDW call spread, both legs deep ITM — just let it expire?
Can’t close it, no liquidity, wide bid/ask, can’t get a fill. Stock is at $21.76 so both legs are deep ITM, expires 18 Jun. Do I just hold to expiry and let Robinhood settle it at max value ($0.50)? Does it happen automatically or do I need to do something?
Tips on tail hedging portfolio
I want to start thinking about early retirement but am terrified of sequence risk (which I just learned the name for on this sub so thanks guys). I've got about 1m in S&P ETFs across taxable and non taxable accounts. I've been looking at 500 strike on SPY (30% decline) …
Data Service for non-0DTE SPX
I’m beginning to see the potential usefulness of GEX, put walls, call walls, gamma flip. There’s a ton of services and a ton of threads about them, but I’m looking for opinions about their usefulness for somebody who primarily trades SPX and mostly 3-10 DTE. Since 60% or more of …
Covered Short Strangles under cost basis anyone ? Alternative to stock repair strategy ?
About 4 months ago, I got absolutely hammered on HOOD and RDDT, getting assigned at roughly 34% in-the-money. Instead of just sitting on dead money or selling boring, pennies-on-the-dollar calls at my original cost basis, I decided to play it aggressively. I’ve been consistently trading \*\*covered short strangles \*under\* my …
Seeing big call buys for TLT - Jan 2028
Anyone else noticing these? May 22: Jan 2028 $105 calls, 239,575 volume. May 22: Jan 2028 $120 calls, 188,024 volume. Someone positioning for lower rates?