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Buy a lower strike call, sell a higher strike call. It only diminishes the vol of vol exposure, not eliminate it. Selling the put spread might be the better way to go, since you might see VIX pop, but implied vol of vol can come down, most likely on the first pull back. One way to play might be sell the Nov VIX putspread, wait for VIX to go up, then sell VIX futures against the putspread and watch vol of vol come down. a bit complicated, but think it's possible. or just buy the bull call spread, wait for the vol pop, then dump the spread. Also, if you want to trade the Nov calls, you need to pay attention to the Nov Vix future, as the call will be priced off of that future, not off of VIX.EFA wrote:You mean a bull call spread or a bull put spread? Thankspablorynx wrote:I would think that a view on vol going up, probably better off with just being long vix (or VXX/VXZ). the problem is that even if vol goes up, the vol of vol might get hammered, making it hard to make money on the vix move. Call spreads might be the way to go on this one.EFA wrote:Hello,BullBear52x wrote:Congrats! you are on the nose again. what's in the plate today?stocksage wrote:We are getting a little stretched to the upside but like I said months ago buy goog, aapl, and short oil and get rich! Now the oil trade is over.
What would you think about VIX Nov. calls? Any idea? It seems to be at the lower BB, could it be a nice ride up from here to November?
Thanks guys
I had problem to get you a EUR/USD chart, here is the FXE one. Check the BB. I guess it's time to short euro again.waverider wrote:I don't trade forex, but Petsamo says you can watch here: http://www.livecharts.co.uk/ForexCharts/eurusd.phpUnique wrote:For people talking about EUR/USD, wanna post some charts?
Not everyone have forex charts...
It's interesting how the current SPY chart looks a lot like mid-Sptember, with two island-like tops then. Now it looks like we are making the same formation.99er wrote:Update
SPX http://99ercharts.blogspot.com/2011/10/spx_5376.html
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Weekly Option expiry day today. Did not look good for financial stocks today. Just don't understand financial stocks' downgrade always happe99er wrote:Update
SPX http://99ercharts.blogspot.com/2011/10/spx_5376.html
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i love it. but pbars have been crap all week. HAHA...hoping for some pbar follow through...BullTart wrote:Looky Looky what I saw on the TVIX... the mother of all PBARs?![]()
Still fully deployed with TVIX at the moment.
I see no p-bar on TOS for this, so no p-bar I guessjarbo456 wrote:i love it. but pbars have been crap all week. HAHA...hoping for some pbar follow through...BullTart wrote:Looky Looky what I saw on the TVIX... the mother of all PBARs?![]()
Still fully deployed with TVIX at the moment.
Thanks bro, I'm still holding.BullTart wrote:Looky Looky what I saw on the TVIX... the mother of all PBARs?![]()
Still fully deployed with TVIX at the moment.
Nice chart, unfortunately I don't know of any website I can use to draw gann lines... Hopefully stockcharts will add the feature eventually. Do you trade forex?jarbo456 wrote:you'll see that EUR/USD sliced through a fan and retracement level this morning, but formed a doji hourly with some follow through on the next hour. we need to drop back into the fan channel it sliced through this morning for a confirmation to short eur, but it's looking ok so far.
fx was my background when i worked in an office.waverider wrote:Nice chart, unfortunately I don't know of any website I can use to draw gann lines... Hopefully stockcharts will add the feature eventually. Do you trade forex?jarbo456 wrote:you'll see that EUR/USD sliced through a fan and retracement level this morning, but formed a doji hourly with some follow through on the next hour. we need to drop back into the fan channel it sliced through this morning for a confirmation to short eur, but it's looking ok so far.
Very interestingBullTart wrote:Looky Looky what I saw on the TVIX... the mother of all PBARs?![]()
Still fully deployed with TVIX at the moment.