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Last seen: Jul 18, 2023
@earlyretirementnowcom Just saw this update from Cboe giving specific dates in April/May for first listing of Tues/Thurs SPXW "pending regulatory appr...
@twentysomething LOL I guess I jinxed us with that post and had a 20 point ITM finish to show for it.
@earlyretirementnowcom 100% agree - hopefully this actually comes to fruition. Selling Thursday expirations rather than Friday would have allowed me t...
@nobatmanjokes I've never tried to set orders on any of those new long-dated SPX options but if you do, I'd be very interested to hear what you get th...
@norciom ah I see. Yes our tech stocks are certainly swooning right now. The pattern is definitely more like 1 loss worth a lot of premium rather than...
@norciom 6 months of premia collected seems like a lot considering the market movements over the past week, which are actually quite mild compared to ...
I realize this post makes me sound defensive! Just trying to talk through my justifications for modest leverage since most of my friends are either bu...
It's not just you - IBKR announced a doubling of margin loan balance from last year in their recent Q2 earnings. Always hard to call a bubble as it ...
@figuy1 This is the thesis of the "Lifecycle Investing" book from Ayres and Nalebuff and is the subject of much discussion at Bogleheads - e.g./p> I...
Don't really know about that but the author suggests they are correlative with market vol but not causative. I'm not actual changing anything I do, si...
@earlyretirementnowcom Makes sense! My comments are definitely coming from an early career, 50%+ savings rate perspective. I'm pursuing this higher be...
Still no ITM expirations for me with 4-6 DTE, 8-10 delta options in 2021 so far! The last loss I posted was in late October last year. Of course the...
Makes sense. I think I'm still going to moderately ramp up new contributions to like 10-20% outside the US. Working for a Bay Area (bio)tech company i...