akito
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Indeed, @Yowster is the #1 most patient person in this community by far. No one comes close.
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Thanks for the heads up. I also see 2 duplicate July charges on my activity page that happened on July 2nd. However, I also see a deposit to cancel out the duplicated that happened on July 3rd. It's labeled "REV FR SO SUBSCRIPTION". I guess the REV stands for reverse. I'll need to setup a reminder to check for duplicate charges every month now...
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More tools to analyze the earnings trades: www.art-of.trading
akito replied to Christof+'s topic in General Board
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Interesting. Looks like Tradier will now support pre-market and post-market trading. I don't, and won't, be making such trades, but cool nonetheless. Just received the following email:
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That is exciting news! I finally have access to option spreads on robinhood now (Apparently, if you just remove access for options and then just re-request it, the app will ask you the trading experience questions again and by choosing the most aggressive answers, they give you option spread access), but am not seeing any way to construct spreads right now. I'm already on the latest version, unless they're slowly rolling out an update on google play.
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Thanks for providing a detailed summary. It's very insightful. Agreed, I would be cautious about these results continuing without a strong and consistent bull market. The fact that you hardly did any trades in February (underlined above) further reinforces the idea that caution needs to be had with the results. (although, I would imagine any straddles/strangles would have benefited in February) Based on your results, it appears the best performing trades were the pre-earning calls and strangles, and the post earning short put spreads. It's good to see further support about these particular trade ideas.
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Thanks for the follow up. It doesn't help the issue, but just adding more info. Apart from a cash account and a gold account with margin, Robinhood also has "robinhood instant", a "limited margin account". https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/207677966-Robinhood-Instant So you can have a quote-on-quote "margin" account without gold.
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I think I got on the web interface waitlist pretty early, so that's probably why. Yea, I think with the most aggressive answers, you'll get level 3 access. When possible, can you post back with what a quick review of the spread interface and what you can/cannot do? Looking forward to it.
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I've also been allowed access to options on Robinhood, but apparently did not answer their questions aggressively enough so I wasn't allowed access to spreads. Only stock/cash covered calls/puts. When you answer their questions about experience and risk thresholds, etc, I think you have to choose the most aggressive answers. As things are currently, robinhood does not support upgrading accounts to level 3, spread access, so I'm stuck at the moment. Just a heads up so you and others don't get stuck as well. Also, I've just recently been given access to the web version of robinhood and it works pretty well. A bit more info than on the phone app. Very slick looking. Still very simplistic though.
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Whoops. Sorry about that. Multi-tasking at work again (sigh, I need to stop doing this, because it never works out well). I mixed up my positions when typing my comment. I entered the mar16, 39.5 call sometime around 1pm for -1.28 debit. not end of day. Closed for 0.57 credit. It's now at 0.65 credit. I admit my decision was a rash one. (multi-tasking...)
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Closed my NAV call that I opened end of day yesterday. 55% loss. Luckily, super tiny allocation.
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NAV now has a confirmed earning date. March 8, BO. Anybody looking to enter? Unfortunately too late for a hedged straddle like last cycle. Straddle RV alone is kinda high. Outsized move last cycle though. Anyways, can still do a long call. Last cycle in December was good even though the cmlviz link doesn't show it. Hm.
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Interesting. Where exactly do you include the note/comment? I've filed taxes with a few different tax software and I don't remember having seen any notes/comment fields. (there were a lot of fields though, so I definitely could have missed/forgot it)
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Still seasick from all the volatility over the past couple of weeks, but I think I'm ready to dip my toes back into a few cmlviz long call trades. The W one does look nice. Opened same position as everyone else.
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Same. I don't think it's wise to be opening any of these cmlviz long calls or iron condor trades in this current environment. The after earning straddle does look interesting, but I'm also confused how it holds up so well without any earnings holding theta back.
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Closed my TEVA strangle today for 2.52 credit around 10am ET, I think it was. 12.5% gain. I think there was around 20% gain near open, but I was busy trying to figure out what was going to happen with SVXY and working with the SPX trade. Also forgot to mention that I closed my NVDA long call last Friday for around 30% loss.
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Entered NVDA feb16, 257.5 call at 5.80 debit and TEVA feb16, 21/21.5 strangle for 2.24 debit. For NVDA, went with a longer expiration to be a bit more conservative and a higher strike to get a cheaper option that was more in line with what I am willing to risk on a single long call trade. (alternatively, could have also gone with a spread to lower costs)
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Just a heads up, I don't think you are comparing apples to apples in your post. The RV chart is for the closest expiration to ER, which would be feb9 while you are looking at the feb16 expiration. Naturally, the later expiration will be more expensive. The feb9 21.5 straddle is already at 2.18, so if you want a price of around 2.2, you can already have it.
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NVDA 7-1 PE long call (link is old and does not include previous cycle in november, but looking at the price charts, it was a winner as well) http://www.cmlviz.com/cmld3b/index.php?number=11768&app=news&cml_article_id=20171022_the-one-week-pre-earnings-momentum-trade-in-nvidia&source=TM_insights Earnings confirmed for Feb8, AC, so entry would be tomorrow.
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Thanks for the heads up on this price pop! Was just about to head into a meeting. Edit: Got a chance to look at my numbers. Entered one at 2.3 debit and one at 2.44 debit and exited both at 3.3 credit. 39.2% gain. (I bought the feb16, 70 strike expiration to be more conservative)
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Closed 2nd iteration of MSFT calls for average of 2.24 credit. 19.7% gain. ~48% gain total gain this cycle for the MSFT long call. It's probably going to continue upwards, but I just made a personal call to close seeing how the stock is temporarily plateaued and get the 40% gains that others had achieved in the previous cycle.
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MSFT long call worked again this cycle. Closed my MSFT calls for 28.5% gain. I mostly used longer expirations to be more conservative. (would have been over 30% gain if just using the closest expiration) Will re-open if stock pulls back a good amount. Also accidentally held my OSK long calls through expiration...Fortunately, the stock jumped at market open allowing 45% gain. (was supposed to be a ~15% loss yesterday) Edit: Reopened MSFT calls near end of day. Mix of expirations. Average of 1.87 debit.
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Closed EA calls for -36% loss...
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It's now working for me again.
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wow...Tradier is down again for order processing...what on earth is going on over there
