Fool or Cecil.....You guys have an idea of what I do, in your opinion, if you had to pick 5 or so stocks with a lot of strikes, real nice liquidity, etc etc that would be good for a write and roll strategy like mine.....what ones would you think of ...

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If you're looking for the kind of liquidity that will allow you to put on really fat trades, though, you weed out the crowd of stock options pretty fast. I am glad to hear you say this....cause I was getting frustrated looking at option pricing ...

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I am getting it....my struggle is that I don't know that it would be smart for me to start concentrating on stocks when my attention is needed elsewhere. as much as I want to diversify, I think for the time being I will keep it on paper. I just have ...

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thank you crude. was getting nervous there about my calls..... made a nice double top on the 4 hour chart by the 100 ma.....that 95.40-95.50ish area I am hoping is a near term high like it has been for a bit here.... its amazing to me still how much ...

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if the 105 was worth writing for Jan I would....I would have to go to Feb.....Which I have considered. Jans are only $40 and Febs are $210....by tomorrow that will change. this morning I was looking at 103s for $350 on a roll out I may have to over ...

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had my stop hit in that futures short....took a 1.00 loss up to 94.79, still in everything else. starting to consider a roll of the call, but not yet. still have a lot of premium on puts, and just gonna wait it out for now. kind of a nutty little ...

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gotcha..... I am curious how that formula works, I have read it online, but I keep getting different explanations for it..... this probably sounds naïve but I am just assuming they are using some form of a span margin calculator like my exchanges ...

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so your max risk on that is $12 plus fees? not a bad deal when it works eh?? crude giving me some annoyance today.....thankful for the puts that I was worried about less than 24 hours ago...haha....what fun my job is!!! I figure I take a week off of ...

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wow things are really moving pre market today.....

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so for $12 (plus fees) you will own that? what is margin?

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Fool....just thinking out loud here after reading a previous post from ya. Talk me thru why not just sell these TNA calls naked around a $73 call and (after looking at it a bit) also a naked $66 put (roughly) I ask because when I do this, it doesn't ...

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could be....I just didn't like the 100s deteriorating so much compared to the 87.50s, so I wanted more calls on. I am getting close to the point where I just wont write any more and just sit and wait for deterioration. Don't know how long I will ...

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glad I didn't screw the pooch on that gold...... $31 down....crazy.....it looks like its in no mans land on the daily chart now.......could be a bigger drop...... hope my crude just keeps chillin I shorted futures at 93.79 for Jan.....trying to ...

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nice job on your trade.... I agree on FOMC.....ultimately this should all wash out and I wouldn't be surprised if market is in same spot next week.

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still sour about missing entry this morn by 2cents. didn't wanna miss twice, don't trust her tho. my puts are higher vol....but overall IV on crude is so low that it is hard to find work

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I just sold more crude calls. Jan 99s for $260 each. Did about 1 call for roughly every $10-12k or so I have in each account.....so for every 100k or so I wrote 8-10 lets see........

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trader's dynamic index. it is definitely on here for free I saw it some time ago

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I use very few indicators...but one I have used for years is this TDI. I think you can get it free on here somewhere. Don't know if you use it, but on the daily gold chart it kind of looks like there is more room down on it. it has always struck me ...

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nevermind, market vector gold miner ETF got it.

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So am I right to assume that GDX you speak of trade pretty much in unison with my gold?? what are the margins on it? a big reason why I shy away from gold/silver a lot is that the margins fluctuate a lot and are expensive. I have found that ...

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