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    Newbie question on premium

    That's a lot of good info to digest, I am not too good with options terminology so some of it went over my head but I get the gist of what you are saying, that $9 is not so strong a barrier that it cannot be broken with impunity as the slow and steady price decay creeps up into the high $8 zone...
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    first option trade a winner.

    Unless of course you plan your entry and exit so as to make very good use of the premium in as short a time period as possible. In other words if you can sense volatility coming before the holders and the writers of options there is an opportunity to jump in and lock down the premiums as they...
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    Newbie question on premium

    Well I'm not speaking about options in general here but specifically UNG options. From what I gather, UNG stock is basically backed up in large part by professionally placed futures contracts on natural gas itself. This means that all the stock that goes into UNG is collateralized by a share in...
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    Newbie question on premium

    First of all, the historic price low for UNG is $9.01. It has never ever gone lower than that, ever. Now the $9 strike might be closer to ATM but I was thinking more towards the chances of the price of UNG stock itself dropping $ 0.20 further and causing immense pain to the writer of the $10 put...
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    Newbie question on premium

    I was looking at UNG puts today when it was trading at $9.25 a share and I noticed something odd about the $9 and $10 strikes. The implied premium of the $9 put seems to be more than the premium of the $10 put. How could this be? I understand that the $10 strike is in the money by 75 cents but...
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    The oil thread

    Err no. More like 20 days supply.
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    == crude oil daytrading blog ==

    So how does profit on crude daytrading compare to stocks and forex when it comes to risk-reward ratios and the number of hours invested in learning the ropes?
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    Where can i access real time data for free?

    Straight from the horse's mouth: () Pre-Market Trading :clap:
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