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November 12th, 2016, 05:49 AM
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What's happening with Crude Oil? Down 18% in less...
What's happening with Crude Oil? Down 18% in less than 20 days.
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October 20th, 2016, 08:06 PM
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Is it because of the volatility expansion risk...
Is it because of the volatility expansion risk during flash crashs?
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October 18th, 2016, 11:51 PM
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That's my biggest concern when I'm selling naked...
That's my biggest concern when I'm selling naked options. Most of the traders tend to worry about directional exposure but they forget about volatility expension.
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October 15th, 2016, 04:43 PM
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What's the correlation of futures/commodities...
What's the correlation of futures/commodities during big market crashes?
I disagree with allocating 50% margin in stocks/indexes because they are almost perfectly correlated when markets are down.
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October 14th, 2016, 05:51 PM
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50% of margin used/credit collected in options...
50% of margin used/credit collected in options selling is definitely not a viable strategy in the long term.
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October 12th, 2016, 06:13 PM
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The worst span margin increase in large sell off...
The worst span margin increase in large sell off depends on how much is your span and the credit that you receive. Since OTM puts did atleast 10x on 24/8/15, it would be hard to believe that the max...
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October 9th, 2016, 03:48 AM
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Holy shit. How could you protect yourself in that...
Holy shit. How could you protect yourself in that case?
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October 7th, 2016, 08:00 PM
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That's interesting. How did they react to that...
That's interesting. How did they react to that huge move? Did they have the same drawdown?
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October 5th, 2016, 02:59 PM
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30-45 DTE options decay a lot faster.
30-45 DTE options decay a lot faster.
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October 5th, 2016, 02:47 AM
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I put on both sides at once. I doubled my...
I put on both sides at once.
I doubled my account twice, in 2013 and 2014. 2015 was flat. I was up +70% but lost it all in 2-3 trades. Now I'm around 65% YTD. I'm trading a relatively small account...
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October 3rd, 2016, 03:55 PM
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The implied volatility is pretty low right now, I...
The implied volatility is pretty low right now, I closed most of my positions in the past days. I still have a CL 40/58 strangle on, 10 deltas so that's about 90% otm. Opened it at 0.76$ 5 days ago...
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October 3rd, 2016, 01:49 AM
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Hey, that's a nice thread you got there. I'm...
Hey, that's a nice thread you got there. I'm trading a similar strategy.
I sell 85%-95% otm strangles on CL (1.5 to 2SD). I take profit at 50% credit and have a stop loss of 2x the credit...
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