This friend had trouble making money in options though he was directionally right. Let us see how a basic understanding of greeks would have helped him, This thread will be about two attributes of option pricing, extrinsic value and theta
Sir, today #niftybank was continue making new high, but 31700 CE was struggling to go up. I bought at 140, some how managed to sell it at 200. I m ok, in identifying directional edge but options behave differently.
— Vikash Shrivastava\U0001f1ee\U0001f1f3 (@VikashS28) May 27, 2019
1. He was playing pure extrinsic value
2. He has a high theta burn rate so close to expiry, the highest
THIS IS HOW GREEKS HELP YOU !
1. https://t.co/LpbzrgqvaH ( web based)
2. https://t.co/5AHY0EmfH9 ( software)
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Study this thread and then check the VIX charts and Nifty charts from 1st Oct 2018. There is a reason I am retweeting this now :)
1. IV > HV
— Subhadip Nandy (@SubhadipNandy16) October 5, 2018
2. High IVR
3. Sell strangles 2SD away
This is the crux of all complicated option selling strategies . Nothing so simple can work across all market conditions .
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A thread on getting intraday (any timeframe) data to excel without any coding. Limited to only last 60 days. Fetches from zerodha chart.
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1. Open the chart on zerodha web in chrome. Right click and select 'Inspect'. Click 'Network' as shown in this pic.
2. Right click on the last entry on the table you see and click 'copy as cURL (bash)'
3. Go to website https://t.co/f8rhwoGLUc and paste on the left box and click 'Run'
4. The output below candles written on right of box is the ohlc, volume and oi data. Copy and paste to excel.
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1. Open the chart on zerodha web in chrome. Right click and select 'Inspect'. Click 'Network' as shown in this pic.
2. Right click on the last entry on the table you see and click 'copy as cURL (bash)'
3. Go to website https://t.co/f8rhwoGLUc and paste on the left box and click 'Run'
4. The output below candles written on right of box is the ohlc, volume and oi data. Copy and paste to excel.
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The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
If everyone was holding bitcoin on the old x86 in their parents basement, we would be finding a price bottom. The problem is the risk is all pooled at a few brokerages and a network of rotten exchanges with counter party risk that makes AIG circa 2008 look like a good credit.
— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
