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Forum: Options March 16th, 2021, 05:03 AM
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Posted By Sagal
It is important to have understood them, but all...

It is important to have understood them, but all these Greek letters are not so important with spread futures, spread options or naked put/call options. I only use IV to check with a modified excel...
Forum: Options March 3rd, 2021, 05:30 AM
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Posted By Sagal
60 to 180 DTE is my working period. Short...

60 to 180 DTE is my working period. Short strangles are not part of my strategy for commodities and I don't think it will be any time soon.
I could enter a short strangle or a vertical short...
Forum: Options March 2nd, 2021, 04:46 PM
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Posted By Sagal
Are you shorting a strangle (a put and a call...

Are you shorting a strangle (a put and a call option) at the same time? So for NGK21 you would sell the put at 2.7 and sell the call at 3.0 collecting approx: 1.5K with 55 days to expiry? Or will you...
Forum: Options March 2nd, 2021, 03:07 AM
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Posted By Sagal
mosalem2003. you said in pm: I don't...

mosalem2003. you said in pm:



I don't have experience in that either.
Options for me is about OTM options on commodities (maybe on forex, as the rest is not paying enough to my taste). I tried...
Forum: Options February 5th, 2021, 09:57 AM
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Posted By Sagal
As we interacted on another topic, you know that...

As we interacted on another topic, you know that it is not to bother you...
Sticking to the title of this topic (I'm not talking about hedging)
Of course one has to read and has to understood the...
Forum: Options November 3rd, 2020, 09:04 AM
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Posted By Sagal
You are on the topic of selling options right? ...

You are on the topic of selling options right?
So it is only me of course and I wouldn't do it myself because gold volatility is low (implied volatility 20.7%), there is a lot at stake (100 dollars...
Forum: Options June 16th, 2019, 08:25 AM
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Posted By Sagal
I am with you at 100% and this is also my...

I am with you at 100% and this is also my strategy (after mixed results trying to get 4 spread contracts expiring each month and opening them 4 months in advance).
Forum: Options June 16th, 2019, 06:37 AM
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Posted By Sagal
Good to see some fresh thinking on this topic. ...

Good to see some fresh thinking on this topic.
My impression for commodities with regards to Cordier's recommendation is that a lot has changed since he wrote his books:
- of course he went...
Forum: Options May 5th, 2019, 07:20 AM
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Posted By Sagal
Thanks I understand that most of the selling...

Thanks I understand that most of the selling options sellers are stopping quickly the trade if the price of the underlying goes against them and take profits sooner (at the latest at 50%). Finally as...
Forum: Options May 5th, 2019, 04:49 AM
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Posted By Sagal
Thanks for your reply. I took the habit in...

Thanks for your reply.
I took the habit in French forum to only mention failure as otherwise people get angry...
Things are quite different in US forum.

For Copper I had at that time one short...
Forum: Options April 28th, 2019, 09:53 AM
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Posted By Sagal
Not helpful guys...I will more rarely come and...

Not helpful guys...I will more rarely come and intervene as there are not enough exchanges on the topics I am interested in (I am talking as well of exchange of ideas or information on commodities on...
Forum: Options April 22nd, 2019, 10:48 AM
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Posted By Sagal
I am almost coming to the conclusion that selling...

I am almost coming to the conclusion that selling spread options on a diversified way on commodities is hardly profitable for me.
Is there anyone trading the collateral to protect the naked options...
Forum: Options April 8th, 2019, 01:53 PM
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Posted By Sagal
No problem ron99. Take it as you want....:violin:...

No problem ron99. Take it as you want....:violin:
As I mentioned before I read around 200 pages on this file, therefore I have had as well the opportunity to notice that you do not always accept...
Forum: Options April 8th, 2019, 04:22 AM
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Posted By Sagal
Maybe for a naked option or a short strangle but...

Maybe for a naked option or a short strangle but acknowledge (as you cannot prove otherwise see my previous post and I am still waiting...) that short vertical spreads are another story. In this case...
Forum: Options April 6th, 2019, 03:33 AM
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Posted By Sagal
SMCJB I would be interested knowing what model do...

SMCJB I would be interested knowing what model do you use and if you know a not too expensive one for commodities.

From what I can see the BS model availabe there is quite sufficient for me to...
Forum: Options April 6th, 2019, 03:22 AM
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Posted By Sagal
For me commodities are quite different than index...

For me commodities are quite different than index and Forex (as Cordier said a trend is lasting longer with commodities and certain levels are more rarely broken of if broken only for a short period...
Forum: Options April 5th, 2019, 02:56 PM
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Posted By Sagal
Of course it depends on how far we are from the...

Of course it depends on how far we are from the strike price.
But I give you one example. I have a vertical put spread on cotton expiring next Friday 75/70. At one point of time it turned in the...
Forum: Options April 5th, 2019, 04:09 AM
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Posted By Sagal
You have of course, both of you (ron99 and...

You have of course, both of you (ron99 and myrrdin), undisputed long experience in selling options on futures and I understand that from time to time (or more often than one thinks) you can get burn...
Forum: Options April 3rd, 2019, 03:37 PM
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Posted By Sagal
My broker (the first one I listed) is proposing...

My broker (the first one I listed) is proposing options on platinum (it is on palladium that he is not offering or oats, lumber USD ICE index and others).

To answer you ron99 on why my objectives...
Forum: Options April 1st, 2019, 03:29 AM
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Posted By Sagal
Thanks for the welcome words ron99 I have to...

Thanks for the welcome words ron99

I have to say after reading approx. 200 pages of this file (beginning – middle and last ones) that my way of selling options (only 5 months of experience there)...
Forum: Options March 31st, 2019, 05:46 AM
Replies: 7,370
Views: 1,999,036
Posted By Sagal
Hello

Hi guys, I have posted my introduction message in the dedicated topic and just to let you know that you can count on a new member very interested in this topic and indeed very active in it since...
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