Posts Tagged ‘rimm’

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  How Option Expiration Turned Out for My Subscribers
  stevenplace, December 21st, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Comments: 0

  I love opex. Equity options have very interesting characteristics like discontinuities in gamma and very fast theta (time decay).
  So when opex comes around, I provide my subscribers with a list of ideas for trading that day– this month we focused strictly on option selling with 1 day left. I also provided a video explaining the [...]

• December Trade Review
  stevenplace, December 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Comments: 0

  A couple things to note:

  This doesn’t take into account commissions. So if you have some absurd commission structure with your broker (2.50/contract + 8/trade) then your return is significantly diminished.
  These fills are not necessarily the fills that the market gave to subscribers. Sometimes there was a much better fill 30 minutes after I put the [...]

• My AMZN Trade and What to Do When You’re Short Gamma
  stevenplace, October 26th, 2009 at 11:31 am, Comments: 0

  AMZN beat. Or something like that. Sheesh.
  In the context of this declining volatility, I feel that the current strategy for most earnings trades would be to sell volatility prior, with the expectation that the move will not be greater than what the options are pricing in. When you sell volatility, you’re looking to make money [...]

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  IWO Video: Short Straddles and Other Strategies
  stevenplace, December 3rd, 2008 at 6:56 am, Comments: 0