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Last seen: May 10, 2022
@earlyretirementnowcom How are you choosing your strikes? Delta, %OTM, half the 2 day price?Do you anticipate 5 expirations a week reducing sequence ...
Misery loves company. I had the 4310, 4300, and 4295 strikes. Rough day. Gave back the year's gains.
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The link for his S1 signal service?
I just saw your latest article (Nov) on the put selling strategy and a backtest by Spintwig.Are you familiar with his S1 signal service? Seems like t...
@navypack I sold the 4435s for an avg of 1.20
Has anyone put on any Friday 8/27 trades? It is hard to mechanically put on the trade at all time highs with a dropping VIX. I like to be at least 1...
@figuy1 You only need the margin to hold the trade. 1 ES put requires $12,650 in margin. But, just because you have the margin to enter a position d...
@figuy1 TD requires 12650 margin per /ES put. They are half the size of SPX puts so you have to sell 2 for every 1 SPX put you would sell.Even though...
I'm back! and trading the /ES puts until my account gets re-funded and my portfolio margin status is reactivated.I got the /ES 4255, 4265, and 4300 st...
Yes! I think this is only true if the IVs are the same (and assuming deltas and DTE are the same). Here is an interesting piece expanding on th...
Yeah, time marches on and premiums decay quickly when there is only 2 or 3 days.
@navypack Glad you ended up OTM. Thank goodness for the bounce in the last 15 minutes. I ended up losing about 26 pts per option sold. Stings a lit...
I sold the 3920, 3940 and 3955s for Wed. Avg price 1.72