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Last seen: Jan 25, 2022
Looks like my recent luck selling ~250 points OTM for good premium has run dry today. 4150 at $0.95.
@navypack 3920 at 1.1 right at open.
@mpaziran Another route is to trade 2 ES contracts for a while until you’re up at $150k or so with portfolio margin. Requires you to hold a bit more c...
The E-mini options that expire in the AM on the expiration day are the American Options listed on the contract specs page./p> Per that page they sho...
@navypack to me it looks like normal price fluctuation that happens to be about equal in size to the dividend. NMZ also opened higher on Monday despit...
I feel those volatility spikes from macro indicator reports are a big part of why this works in the long run so I carried on. It’s the unexpected spik...
I’d gladly take sideways while I’m short vol and still accumulating long assets. Short 4135 for Wednesday
@navypack post retirement decisions are way harder since you can’t paper them over with income and you only get to be in one retirement cohort!
@navypack I sold a same day today so waiting for end of day, but these IVs around 10-11 through Tuesday are not enticing! I also feel subjectively lik...
Holiday weekends are always bad for premium with not much happening domestically. How does everyone manage these? I usually take a haircut on my weeke...
Likewise for anyone in the national capital region!
@chris-b I think most of us are selling on SPX which is cash settled so no assignment to worry about. With /ES you want to get in there at the last mi...
Hm. Maybe the way forward will be to spend some time at happy hours post pandemic then 🙂
I was unlucky on timing Monday so that was a 20 point loss which would have been clear if I’d sold at end of day. Oh well, just 6 weeks or so not a hu...
@membar my thesis was that generally single stock risk is uncompensated in markets as it can be easily diversified away. If the goal is to preserve th...