Monday, November 14, 2011

Advanced Strategies for Option Trading Success - James Bittman

Implied volatility

3-part forecast: underlining price, time, implied volatility

Put, call: put higher than fair value because big institution buys portfolio insurance; call lower than fair price because writing covered call.

Gamma: highest for near-term, at-the-money options.

time decay: only concern with time horizon of 2 weeks and lower; for 1~2 day trading, volatility plays bigger role.

time-spread: good % return, but exit partial as soon as you make good profit. 

Vega is pretty linear for volatility

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