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F Covered Calls - roll or leg them exercise?
I have a few hundred shares of Ford that I’ve been holding for the long term for a few months and selling covered calls to squeeze a little more income out of them (it’s not much, but it’s something). For most of the past few months it’s kinda bounced around …
SOFI Squeeze chance tomrrow/friday?
SOFI possible short/gamma squeeze setup for tomorrow? Looking for opinions. I’m looking at SOFI for a possible short squeeze / gamma squeeze setup into tomorrow and Friday expiration. Not saying this is guaranteed, just laying out what I see. Current setup: * SOFI is trading around $15.40 * Today’s range …
Trading Options From The Underlying’s Chart
I day trade SPX options and am looking for a trading platform that allows me to set entries, stop losses, and take profit lines directly on the SPX chart (not the chart of the option contract itself). Are there any platforms that can do this?
Trail stop oco stop loss?
Hi everyone, Does it make send to use trail stop oco stop loss on 0dtes spx credit verticals? Just in case to protect myself from trailing stop not functioning in case of a huge drop or it is not necessary? I don’t want to watch the credit spreads the whole …
Can someone help me understand this PL
When I went to close my position,it was showing me a total profit of around 1200. And thats for the 130 contracts. However, after doing the math I only recieved enough credit for 600 dollars in profit. I am seeing 2 different profits on different parts of the app as …
Futures Options CL, GC, SI, NG: European or American style?
Hi there all and thanks in advance. I'm posting only after searching extensively; it appears as if "AI search" and ChatGPT etc have in some cases lowered the quality of search answers as they are conflicting, and I couldn't find this on the CME site either with certainty (would appreciate …
0dte, never trade the open. Just wait for trash premiums and narrower widths instead. Right?!
Been trading 0dte SPX for the last year and everyone says “never trade the open” but when you wait, the premiums are trash later in the day and you have to get much narrower. True, volatility is a little higher in the morning but so are premiums and the width …
ThetaData rate limit?
They say they don't rate limit, but my download script was working and all of a sudden it just stopped and won't run any more. Was downloading SPY 0DTE NBBO data from 2023 and once I got to 6/27/2024 it stopped and now it won't download anything at all. It's …
VRT: Buying Puts On AI Infrastructure (Jan'27 340/260 Put Debit Spread)
TL;DR Macro cooked, inflation immortal, multiples pricing in the singularity = short. Vertiv ($VRT) is a \~90x trailing P/E electrical equipment company servicing AI capex build. Business is real (+30% YoY revenue, 42% ROE). The multiple is the trade. Consensus PT ($335) is already below spot ($367). Expressing the bear …
Am I missing something by not using order flow? (TOS + TopstepX user)
Hey everyone, I currently trade using **ThinkorSwim (for options)** and **TopstepX (for futures)**. My style is pretty simple: * I trade **index futures (mostly intraday)** * I usually take **2–3 trades per day max** * I also swing trade options in TOS Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot about **order …