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I like all the ideas. especially the fundamental options and the swing trade options

Hi Frank your send to red works like charm. Do you know how to chart calendars / straddles on tradestation or tradehawk, too? thank you for your help. Dirk

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Hi Kim I saw you using sjoptions as reference for some topics and suscribing their youtube-channel. Do you have any more detailed information on what they are actually doing in their trading with their near 100% winning rates? Thank you for your feedback

Do you have experienc how (tradier, tradestation, IB) they handle assigned calendar or diagonal spreads? From the risk side nothing has changed to before assignment but now you are short on buying power. I had a long diagonal on uvxy on xmas with a positive spread of 10 hedging my short position and so far succesfully saclping the theta decay but tradestation liquidated my short stock despite the hedge long calls. Being short in buing power I could not buy back the stock and sell another call even though I knew it would just bei a short lived spike. I did not get assigned on tradier so I do not know how they would have handled it. If you have to just buy back the options you might miss out on the underlying moving back to your long position. Do the let you buy back the short stock and sell the same strike with e.g. further expiration even if you are short in buying power due to the assigned short stock? Thank you for your experience and advice

Hi rasar If I understand your message correctly, this would give me the RV of the 26 Oct 87 straddle at this time. I am looking for a comparison of RV ATM straddle pricing over a time period for a good entry point (ETF / Index, I am not looking for earnings at this point). E.g. change of RV ATM Straddle for SPY or TQQQ current to maybe a couple of weeks ago. How would that work? Thank you for your help

Hi Yowster Can you tell me how to find this feature "ou can use your broker's charting software to plot the price of the straddle over a few day/weeks to see how the current price compares to the recent past"? Do Tradier, ThinkOrSwim, Tradestation or IB have it? Do you know where I can find a IV chart for an option (ATM straddle) especially for ETF / index comparing it to previous weeks or months? Thank you for your help

I prepare my trading of SO multilegs on tradehawk with an desired gtc. If on the move something changes, I can edit the gtc price on my mobile / ipad in the browser to close the multileg. Trading multilegs on the web browser (mobile, pad, computer) is possible but bothersome.

Tradier account (and Tradehawk as platform) as a German in Germany was no problem. IB and Tradestation work, too. No such luck with Think or Swim of Ameritrade - they will not let me do credit spreads with reduced margin (bull put spread 95 / 90 would be the full margin as a 95 STO put instead of the 5 in spread-distance.

The VXX is supposedly being replaced by the vxx.b. Does it make sense to move to the vxx.b now already or is there not enough volume? What is the reason for the vxx to vxx.b change? Did they change the way vxx.b behaves like in the svxy? thank you for clarifying

With vxx trading lower, when is there a point where we have to move on because not enough premium on the short put and gain on the long put is earned? Or would you just scale the trade up to do more of them? Thank you for your advice

Have you done / tested DITM double diagonals on indexes? What is the advantage against the ATM double diagonals since they are cheaper and the real income is generated by the short near term options? If you by a second ATM straddle you even profit from large moves of the underlying making up for the debit loss on the ITM diagonal and are able to adjust your center from time to time at a profit and cover yourself for a changing market direction!? As I understand your rules for the SPY ratio diagonals are now in the anchor forum or can I find them anywhere else on SO? Thank you for your advice and clarifying

It seems to me that tradier is now accepting non us customers? Is the steadyoptions offer still valid and do any of you use the 40 $ flatrate? SBatch mentioned he is using a different platform for tradier. How do the platforms differ and to what benefit. I still do not like the IB Interface and love TOS and Tradestation‘s Optionspro. With that in mind what platform would you recommend? Thanks