I had a few options positions in uvxy pre reverse split. All those options are not tradeable. cannot close. Saying invalid. Not sure what to do. I will open ameritrade case for this. Anyone experienced this before ..read more

There is a definitive correlation between crude oil prices and the 10 year Treasury yield, led slightly by crude. That's the edge. The option trades around this are endless. It makes sense, higher crude price, higher inflation, higher yields. 1 year chart:     Sure looks like the 10 year yield is about to move higher very soon.   5 year chart: Absolutely remarkable. Directional trades can be huge winners here. Crude leads the 10 year yield (therefore their prices are inversely correlated ..read more

I have a bear call spread on Nvdia that expires today. Typically I've rolled the spread for a credit at 21 DTE or later, but I can't do that as the roll has always resulted in a large net debit due to the extreme  price move. Worst cast scenario I buy the spread back before expiration near the max loss aka width of the spread. The bid/ask on this spread is extremely wide with the ask being around being nearly $9 on a $5 spread. I really don't want to buy back a $5 spread for $ 7-9. I don't see how I can allow the options to expire together without having the short call assi ..read more

Hi, I did closer looks at stocks ex dividend dates last week and ones for 02/12. Want to understand your perspective on entering collar with expiration dates like 6 to 8 months out vs next month? There seems many close to zero entry(or cheap) sell of call and buy put available that allows to harvest dividend with hold period of days vs months. Made some money on TFC and PZZA w/o leverage but due to SCCO price going up could not get profit on it. Help me get perspective on what I am missing here doing near term trades and exiting quickly vs waiting for months and paying margin interest on trans ..read more

Hello, I understand rates will go up for SteadyVol March 1st.  I also understand that if you are already subscribed, you maintain your original rate and do not see an increase if you remain subscribed.  What if you subscribe to monthly or quarterly and want to upgrade to yearly after the rate increase?  Does your upgraded membership get charged to new rate price for yearly or the old one?  Thanks ..read more

As has become my end of year tradition, I’ve broken down the Steady Options 2023 trade performance by trade type.  Numbers were taken directly from the data in the Performance screen.  Here’s are this year’s stats along with some comments from my perspective.  Where applicable, I added totals from prior years for comparison.   2023 was a year where market volatility was declining for most of the year (as opposed to 2022 where the VIX stayed above 20 for almost the entire year).   There were a couple of periods where VIX got into the 20’s, but for mo ..read more

The stock im looking at is GLD a company in the making and selling of Gold, they have been super steady in the upper 186-189$ but today they are going up again and I wonder is a option for a call buy, worth it ..read more

I frequently get questions on, if I can manage, or help manage, investments for non-US clients -- and the short answer is yes, but it depends on where investors are located and what they want to invest in.   If an investor wanted to invest in Texas Residential Lending (Texas Residential Lending Update - General Board - SteadyOptions), which is currently yielding 11% a year and is an extremely safe investment, we are setup to accept offshore investors in any amount of $50,000 or more.  Off shore clients do not have to worry about US taxes, as our offshore arm is through BVI and is reg ..read more

Hi Everyone, This is the second time I have signed up and paper trading, however I am located in Australia and the markets are open for us in the middle of the night.  So when I wake up the trade is mostly not the same. Its just not possible to make the same trades. Does anyone know of companies/services that will fulfill these trades? Its sad as I really want to trade it though I have to cancel my membership if this cant happen. I am sure someone in the amount of people and time that this has been going for has a solution? TYIA ..read more

Is there any risk in selling a call and buying a put with the same strike while holding the underlying shares? For example: lets say I bought 100 spy stocks for 443.37$ each and then sold a 443$ strike call for 8.15$ in expiration date Oct 20. I also bought a 443$ put for 5.29$ in expatriation date Oct 20. Is there a scenario where i lose money in the above example? Thanks ..read more