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Strategies & Market Trends
Options 201: Beyond Obi-Wan-Kenobe
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Emcee:  Dan Duchardt Type:  Moderated
This subject is intended for options traders who have mastered the basics of buying and selling calls and puts, and are interested in discussing more advanced topics. There are already a couple of next-level subjects dealing with the topic of covered calls, and at least one for discussing spreads. This one is for anything else you have ever heard of, or can conceive- straddles, strangles, butterflies, condors, backspreads, collars, combos. Bring your favorites to the table and let's look carefully at the risks and rewards. The goal is to understand how best to match the strategy to the market behavior of the instruments being traded.

The subject will be moderated. This is not intended to limit or restrict ideas from being presented, but to encourage adherence to the basic rules:

1) No hyping stocks. Using specific examples to illustrate a concept is welcome, but if all you have to say is buy this or sell that, take it elsewhere.

2) Be polite. I expect differences of opinion, and hopefully considerable debate, but let's leave personal comments, barbs, slings and arrows out of it and focus on the merits of the strategies.

Dan
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1064I usually sell DITM Puts, a strike or 2 below the Delta = 100 point, but if the Ira Player-10/22/2004
1063<PS: I'm interested because I often sell DITM Puts when I'm bullish aLLCF-10/21/2004
1062You cannot tell by open interest what happened. Example: Open interest 100, 20Ira Player-10/21/2004
1061<I'm more interested in the early exercise, specifically DITM Puts.> LLCF-10/21/2004
1060< My "Bid" never effects the published "Bid". I get a filLLCF-10/21/2004
1059I have had this happen to me many times. I submit a bid, splitting the spread, Ira Player-10/21/2004
1058I'm more interested in the early exercise, specifically DITM Puts. They havIra Player-10/21/2004
1057<For options it may be. But my point was that compared to purchasing the undeLLCF-10/20/2004
1056<i>.. if they make markets much better than those above they'll just gEsteban-10/20/2004
1055Yes, those are index options. .01 because they are cash exercise? I presume. WLLCF-10/20/2004
1054<Does this "specialist bidding below intrinsic value" happen every LLCF-10/20/2004
1053<Why can't the OCC publish exercise counts?> All "in the money&qLLCF-10/20/2004
1052<Are we to assume that the remaining 8000 contracts representing about 800,00LLCF-10/20/2004
1051<Right now, with a bid/ask of 4.2/4.4, you can send in a sell ar 4.3 and it cLLCF-10/20/2004
1050<Yhoo: 53.68 bid 53.69 ask May04 50 calls bid 4.3 ask 4.4 May04 55 calls bid LLCF-10/20/2004
1049If you have access to a Bloomberg you can do lot's of great stuff! DAKLLCF-10/20/2004
1048I did a search for commodities warrants and got this: search.netscape.comDominick-8/24/2004
1047HI ! Re Options. Rightly or wrongly, I believe that long term US options may tyc:>-8/24/2004
1046Okay. Thanks, RWSRWS-8/7/2004
1045Should I have sold out of the money calls instead? Goodness gracious, yes. If alanrs-8/6/2004
1044I'm kind of confused here. You said you want to hold the stock. So why diDominick-8/6/2004
1043Hi, I think I need some help with options. The results of my last trade lead meRWS-8/6/2004
1042Hi, Sometimes I wonder, which of the following two strategies is better. To mejt101-7/16/2004
1041I received below email and wonder if QQQ puts are considered "index optionsSteve168-7/13/2004
1040"I've been in the same situation on the afternoon of options expirationSteve168-7/13/2004
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