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Last seen: Mar 10, 2023
This year was a humbling experience, no doubt. I'm also up on the year (referring to the option portfolio, of course), after finally managing to crawl...
@navypack You guys are increasing your Delta? I'm sitting at d~0.01/$0.5 per contract for the foreseeable future.
FOMC on Wednesday... The market has been pricing in a lower terminal FED rate lately. Sure, it's 0.75% this meeting, but everything revolves around ho...
@navypack There was, and it wasn't big enough (:Most vol sellers got trainwrecked today.
@earlyretirementnowcom oh boy people lost their marbles again! Just goes to show, bond traders are smarter than equity traders. Got the 3550p(!) for t...
I had two close-calls this week. The first one, on Monday, I had the 4125 strike for that day. The SPX was $5 from the money at some point. Luckily, I...
A friend added that you could also go straight to the 2Y treasury bond future contracts (ZT). These also have future options listed on them that shoul...
What an interesting post. Thank you. I never attempted to trade the FFR, so I don't have any personal experience with it, but I'll give it a shot. ...
I think I sold at the worst possible time today. Exactly 30 minutes before AAPL decided to tank the market. Got the 3775p for tomorrow's expiration....
@muse_ee From looking at the different studies at Spintwig.com, there's no question that in the long run, higher Delta equals higher CAGR. This is ...
Sold the 3650p 7/13 @0.55 Please god let this one expire OTM.
I'm right there with you. Sold the 3715p for tomorrow @0.5. Can't get too greedy in this market. Sold some OTM covered calls since I ain't buying ...
BTW, what deltas are you guys (and gals?) selling right now? I'm still a bit traumatized from April and May's moves. Made me lose all my gains YTD....
@navypack I love selling those AM settled options right around the close. That way I'm basically providing only overnight insurance, and this is ve...