Dislikedmight be a silly question, but what are some good ways to get some oil exposure through options? not from the futures/future options..Ignored
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Dislikedmight be a silly question, but what are some good ways to get some oil exposure through options? not from the futures/future options..Ignored
Disliked. Nick put on a Nov 20th SPY 163/178/201/217 IC for a 3.74 credit. You read that right: basically 15 strikes wideIgnored
Dislikedmight be a silly question, but what are some good ways to get some oil exposure through options? not from the futures/future options..Ignored
Dislikedfor a weekly I did SPY vert calls, $196.5/$197, for 10c. I also did a SPY calls diag, Oct/Oct4, $206/$207 for a 5c debitIgnored
DislikedI have gotten to where all I really need to look at (when I am very busy like these days) is SPY and VXX. Boring? Yes. (Boring is good.) (....if it pays....)Ignored
Disliked{quote} Yeah, man.... boring is good. It is very hard to be a good stock-picker on this market, IMO... but there are good instruments, like the one you mentioned. I didn't trade Crude for a while... that too can be very nice. Always lots of premium there (in /CL options). Basically you can do very well on indices and VIX products, once you learn how they behave.Ignored
Disliked{quote} Boring is exactly what I need ... . This quarter, the vast majority of my $ was made in IWM, followed by SPY, QQQ, DIA, and TLT/TBT. I probs coulda stuck to just the SPY, quite frankly, but sometimes those strikes aren't where you want them to be in one index ETF, but they're there in the other ... . Have no clue what to make out of today's price action beyond this: that .50 Fib from the 4/14 low to the 2015 high (197) appears to be an area of interest, along with the .382 (around 194), which price kind of responded to into the close ......Ignored
Disliked{quote} I will match the calls diag with puts down under $185 if SPY will pull back. Puts are skewed higher, need them to blow off some iv to get in a $1 time spread as cheap as the calls....Ignored
Dislikeda range between 1920 and 2000 appears to be taking shape. Given the way this market's been, though, I'm steering far wider of the 192 and 200 strikes in SPY (still thinking north of 204, south of 185) for options setups ... .Ignored
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Disliked{quote} you get good cell service all over Norweg? Lots of places I have to travel in the mountainous PacNW are pretty remote & cell signals can be hard to find, so I just save that expense and take my chances at Starbucks, which is everywhere here....if I were a daytrader I'd probably want to have the cell phone w/ trading app on the phone, etc...Ignored