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Recent bull market [April 1 - April 27 2026]
I am happy with recent bull market. However, my calls (SPY) I sold are very deep in the money now and will be expiring in 3 weeks. If it gets called away I will make profit. Long term capital gain (in the 37% tax bracket, no state income tax). I …
Bull Call Spreads (German Tax), need help
"Over the last year, I started buying many long-term spreads. I had done my research, and everything I read suggested that taxes are only due after realizing gains—which is true for spreads, unlike covered calls. However, I recently received the interactive tax report from IBKR, which claims I owe €60,000 …
IV changes
Anyone know if theres a way to check the daily close for IV on specific contracts? Trying to check know how elevated the IV is for august AMD puts
Anyone exclusively playing strangles?
I started experimenting with SPY 0dt strangles a couple weeks ago. consistently made profits until last week when I lost all profits plus change on one bad day. wondering if anyone here plays strangles and what are your favorite tickers and strategy to play these
Anyone else get wrecked by a legislative bill they didn’t see coming?
Had a position in a pharma stock and a drug pricing bill moved through committee faster than anyone expected. Found out when the underlying already dropped 8%. Did some digging after and realized I had no real system for tracking this stuff. I was basically relying on news alerts after …
Rate my strategy
So iv been trying a new strategy and would like some opinions. Its a conservative play on Bull put Credit Spreads. I use an AI to do most of the research, and I'll manually check numbers and data after to confirm if they're right or not, and update the ai …
hedged wheel strategy
what are the best practices to perform a hedged version of wheel strategy by selling weekly ATM puts, and buy protective puts ?
Low price stocks
Hey, everyone, I’m pretty novice to options trading. I’ve made a couple of trades throughout the past several years, but never consistently. However, I’m looking for low-priced stocks for cash-secured puts since I don’t have much capital to start with. Any advice on which ones I should keep an eye …
How do you predict or simulate fills for Options Backtesting especially on 2-4 legged strategies?
I'm currently backtesting a new strategy on Double Diagonals using data from [Polygon.io](http://Polygon.io) (now rebranded as Massive). I'm not running my strategy on indexes like SPX, QQQ, etc. but rather on stocks so unfortunately I run into the issue of execution and slippage. My current backtest assumes mid/mark pricing for …
A good portfolio integration through Optios
Hello community, Here the thing: I have 90% of my portfolio full of ETF and good quality (maybe, I hope so) stocks. Now, I want to dedicate 10% of my total budget to optios. I started, like everyone, with OTM options, then I studied “Option ad strategic investment” by McMillan …