Following up on Enis’s recent posts on spot VIX and VIX futures, I wanted to start an occasional series where we discuss these types of things with other experts in the industry. My former colleague …
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We wanted to take the time to go over two trades, the DELL we just closed and the INTC that we continue to look at. In DELL, we put on the trade for a net …
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We received a few questions on the workings of a calendar spread like the one we just closed in MNST. I wanted to take the time to explain how this structure works as it’s a …
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One of the things we enjoy most here at Risk Reversal is the frequent one on one assistance we are able to provide to subscribers as it relates to options strategy and trading in general. …
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The worst kept secret of the day is officially out after hours as Moody’s downgraded a host of banks. Here’s a roundup of the downgrades from Business Insider: For Wall Street, it could’ve been worse. …
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Mon, Jun 4 – How do you guys decide to leg into a spread as opposed to buying the spread all at once? – C A couple of reasons including conviction, and timing, but the …
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May 19: I’m looking for a move in gold and I am thinking about a 160/170 or a 170/180 call spead. I was wondering if you could look at the option chain and see if …
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Introducing our Calculators The idea behind the Implied Event Move Calculator was introduced in our post on Discussing Implied Event Move Calculations. We used the math discussed in that post to build the calculators but …
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Enis mentioned something about stocks being pinned on Quick Hits a little earlier. We got a few questions asking how exactly this works. I’ll give a little primer. Pinning is not some big conspiracy, it …
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We have had much debate here at Risk Reversal over the best way to present this topic. Implied Moves of events, usually earnings, are something we frequently mention and use, but they are at best …
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