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  • #4,761
  • Sep 10, 2014 12:46am Sep 10, 2014 12:46am
Quoting The Fool
BABA shares start trading 9/19 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/alibab...170002324.html
Cramer said the momo stock selloff was necessary so that the everyone could have free cash to buy BABA shares with...
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  • #4,762
  • Sep 10, 2014 11:24am Sep 10, 2014 11:24am
Quoting Cecil Gee
{quote} ok my new trade on AAPLE again for 26 SEP expiration long 98 put write 96 put debit paid was 70c. I'm expecting to hold till expiration. current price is below when I entered it was 98.44 Apple Inc. (AAPL) -NasdaqGS 98.03 {image} 0.33(0.34%) 20:56 - Nasdaq Real Time Price AAPL Sep 2014 98.000 put (AAPL140926P00098000) -OPR 1.94 {image} 0.73(27.34%) 8:35PM GMT+01:00 AAPL Sep 2014 96.000 put (AAPL140926P00096000) -OPR 1.21 {image} 0.60(33.15%) 20:35
cut the above trade with a loss of 18c per contract, with look to trade long call spread later on aaple
  • #4,763
  • Sep 10, 2014 11:56am Sep 10, 2014 11:56am
Quoting The Fool
I have only occasionally traded cable or sterling in any way & I am generally ignorant about British economic issues. But the impending Scottish secession (?) vote (and steep drop in cable) is impossible to ignore. If Scotland doesn't go, the pound will bounce, no? - how to trade that (likely) possibility?
What about GBP futures options?

About BABA IPO, I find strange that the first day of trading is Friday. For some reason I would expect it to be Monday.

Anyways... here is the Option Update from Bloomberg TV... It is a 4 min vid, talk is about VIX, EBAY and YHOO, by that Agrawal guy... He wants to do bull call spread on YHOO, 45/50 for October monthly expiry...
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  • #4,764
  • Sep 10, 2014 12:09pm Sep 10, 2014 12:09pm
Quoting StrayDog
{quote} Anyways... here is the Option Update from Bloomberg TV... It is a 4 min vid, talk is about VIX, EBAY and YHOO, by that Agrawal guy... He wants to do bull call spread on YHOO, 45/50 for October monthly expiry...
YUP, just watched that, Agarwal pretty good guy.
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  • #4,765
  • Sep 10, 2014 12:25pm Sep 10, 2014 12:25pm
gamma scalp trade entered for Fridays expiration IWM short while ago

long $116.50 call for 16c. IWM is trading fat 115.82

iShares Russell 2000 (IWM)
-NYSEArca
115.82 https://s.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/ba...nt-1093278.png 0.64(0.56%) 18:20 - Nasdaq Real Time Price


IWM Sep 2014 116.500 call (IWM140912C00116500) -OPR
0.16 Down 0.05(23.81%) 17:58
  • #4,766
  • Sep 10, 2014 12:25pm Sep 10, 2014 12:25pm
Quoting StrayDog
{quote} About BABA IPO, I find strange that the first day of trading is Friday. For some reason I would expect it to be Monday....
Boy there are some heavy chickens could come home to roost: FOMC and Scottish vote both on 9/18. Both could sink equities in a big way....could really spoil BABA's party....
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  • #4,767
  • Sep 10, 2014 12:30pm Sep 10, 2014 12:30pm
Quoting The Fool
{quote} Yep, that EUO is not so great but it's ok for a directional play I suppose. I paid $0.18 & it's up $0.30/$0.35 now. EUO Jan $20 call will be approx. EUR/USD $1.2800.
hangin' in, got til January, E/U trying to dip below $1.29 again....
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  • #4,768
  • Sep 10, 2014 12:35pm Sep 10, 2014 12:35pm
after closing the vertical put spread on apple for a small loss, I'm considering entering the reversal long call spread providing it can close above 100.60

long the 101 call for around $2 and write the $104 for around $1 for a net debit of a $1 and for 26 SEP expiration. Current APPL stock price is $100.59

Apple Inc. (AAPL)
-NasdaqGS
100.59 https://s.yimg.com/lq/i/us/fi/03rd/up_g.gif 2.60(2.65%) 18:34 - Nasdaq Real Time Price

AAPL Sep 2014 101.000 call (AAPL7140926C00101000)
-OPR
2.00 0.00(0.00%) 18:05

AAPL Sep 2014 104.000 call (AAPL140926C00104000)
-OPR
1.03 https://s.yimg.com/lq/i/us/fi/03rd/up_g.gif 0.47(83.93%) 18:15
  • #4,769
  • Sep 10, 2014 12:38pm Sep 10, 2014 12:38pm
LULU earnings tomorrow BMO. That is one crazy stock. Usually going down on ER's... but now the bar is set real low.

Wanna dance with LULU?

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I can't get the same bid/ask/median from dough, probably because it has delay, because it is a demo... I can get $0.59 credit at median for this, OR $0.70 for the same IC but Sep19 expiry IF get filled at median... Hmmm.... Sep12 options have 120%+ IV, and Sep19 60%+ IV.
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  • #4,770
  • Sep 10, 2014 12:57pm Sep 10, 2014 12:57pm
THAT was hilarious... if I just knew that founder would say something like that... ah those puts would made loads of cash

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  • #4,771
  • Sep 10, 2014 1:20pm Sep 10, 2014 1:20pm
good luck on LULU, Stray, if you go there. I'm looking at YHOO still and hoping for a dip under $41 b4 the close, I might do another bull put spread. iv is nudging up on the 9/26 puts.....
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  • #4,772
  • Sep 10, 2014 1:51pm Sep 10, 2014 1:51pm
Quoting The Fool
good luck on LULU, Stray, if you go there. ...
Too tired to try to buy/sell each option to get more credit on IC, won't do it for fill at median, and I will skip this, take my dog for a walk, and go to bed early.
Anyways I never traded LULU before, so maybe next time... my gut feeling saying nothing now.

I closed all naked puts on YHOO, Sep26 37 puts for 50% win, and Oct17 37 puts for 40% win, I am leaving the 35/37 Oct17 bullish put spreads and 40/43/46 Oct17 call butterfly. Reason - I will probably not trade at all starting from tomorrow up to Sep22, so taking the "undefined" risk from the table. In selling premium business you have to be patient, know your odds, and that is something I will work on in the future. I want to combine selling premium tactics with debit spreads, and simple long puts or calls positions, adapt to the market. Trade mostly what I learned so far, and slowly learn other stuff, like diagonals, calendars, and so on... So much more is here than trading stocks, IMO... Really exciting.
Hope is dangerous in this game.
  • #4,773
  • Sep 10, 2014 2:07pm Sep 10, 2014 2:07pm
Quoting StrayDog
{quote} I want to combine selling premium tactics with debit spreads, and simple long puts or calls positions, adapt to the market. Trade mostly what I learned so far, and slowly learn other stuff, like diagonals, calendars, and so on... So much more is here than trading stocks, IMO... Really exciting.
you seem to be coming along very well, I bet you'll probably be a rich options trader before I will. Boy a getaway sounds like a capital idea. I am taking the whole month of December off, maybe more. Been thinking about going to Australia...summer down under....

I'm feeling more than a mite wary about what next week may bring. Lot's of looming fundie risks. re: YHOO, I'd bet they are trying to hold it down prior to the BABA ipo. I've been looking for another put spread but in nothing yet....
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  • #4,774
  • Sep 10, 2014 2:59pm Sep 10, 2014 2:59pm
did another $38/$36 9/26 put spread on YHOO. $0.45 credit...watching the QQQ push up over $100, may look to set up for a drop there...
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  • #4,775
  • Sep 10, 2014 7:17pm Sep 10, 2014 7:17pm
http://finance.yahoo.com/video/most-...210642813.html

Seems like the new trading year (it begins after Jackson Hole, yo) began with a dominant theme: sell UST's & buy the USD. TLT has made a steady drop since last week $119.43 on 8/29 to $114.83 close today. I'm in a 9/20 $111/$113.5 bear put credit spread, wondering if I will get out ok.

One idea from the vid clip there is that UST rates are going up, and that the equities with strong dividends that have been serving as proxies for UST's may be hurt by the rise in UST rates. MMMMaybe. What are those names, anyway?
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  • #4,776
  • Sep 10, 2014 7:21pm Sep 10, 2014 7:21pm
Quoting The Fool
Draghi whacked gold, sub $1,250 opens the chute to $1,100. That's my fantasy. Oct $116/$115 debit spread goes $0.50/$0.37, $0.13 net debit....need to work a diagonal and leave an opening to the downside....
Gold sitting at $1,250.00 dead nuts right now. FOMC next week might help it bounce.
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  • #4,777
  • Sep 10, 2014 7:44pm Sep 10, 2014 7:44pm
I'll be getting into some positions on the US indices, ready for a drop.

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  • #4,778
  • Edited 12:52am Sep 11, 2014 12:31am | Edited 12:52am
Quoting The Fool
One idea from the vid clip there is that UST rates are going up, and that the equities with strong dividends that have been serving as proxies for UST's may be hurt by the rise in UST rates. MMMMaybe. What are those names, anyway?
JNJ (ER 10/13 week); INTC (ER 10/14); PG (ER 10/24); MRK (ER 10/27 week); T (ER 10/21 week); MO (ER 10/22 week); KO (ER 10/13 week); PM; KRFT; POT; CB; TRV; JPM; IBM; GSK; BP; BHP; RTN; MSFT....
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  • #4,779
  • Sep 11, 2014 1:19am Sep 11, 2014 1:19am
the next big thing

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/feds-r...050242365.html

"Investors will parse the central bank's words closely for any clues on the timing of the first U.S. rate hike in more than eight years. Any major tweaks to its policy statement could cause ructions in financial markets as investors recalibrate bets on benchmark rates in the world's biggest economy."

I had to look up "ruction." Its like a brouhaha.
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  • #4,780
  • Sep 11, 2014 12:31pm Sep 11, 2014 12:31pm
GDX 24 call is the trade I'm eyeing up for tomorrows expiration. I'd like the option price to fall to around 6c near closing day, at the moment its trading for 12c

GDX Sep 2014 24.000 call (GDX140912C00024000)
-OPR
0.12 https://s.yimg.com/lq/i/us/fi/03rd/down_r.gif 0.18(60.00%) 18:06

GDX is trading at 23.83 as of now
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