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#11,601
#11,601
Thunder Good-Oil said:
I’m still trading the options at Fidelity while getting the real time options quotes on the Ameritrade app. Fidelity is only giving quotes that are delayed about 15 minutes. I really dislike them for that - but I just realized that they are giving me free streaming of Bloomberg TV.
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Where? Is it on Active Trader Pro? I've just been using the website, and haven't seen it.
 
#11,602
#11,602
A few things to discuss from videos. Brad Finn says to avoid selling calls options of longer than 30-45 days out. Does that jive with experience here?
 
#11,603
#11,603
Velo Vol said:
Where? Is it on Active Trader Pro? I've just been using the website, and haven't seen it.
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Regular Fidelity iPhone app. Clicked on MARKETS at the bottom of the home screen. Scrolled down to Top News. Clicked on View News and Videos. Clicked PLAY on Bloomberg TV. It defaulted just above the Bloomberg TV screen to News. Viewpoints is the other option. It won’t let me minimize it though. With CNBC on Ameritrade I can minimize it and go to other windows while it continues to broadcast.
 
#11,604
#11,604
Velo Vol said:
A few things to discuss from videos. Brad Finn says to avoid selling calls options of longer than 30-45 days out. Does that jive with experience here?
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I’m a newbie. But I tend to agree. I’m currently shopping the current week, next week, and the week after that to sell. If I was buying though, I’d want to go well out into future periods.
 
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#11,605
#11,605
Large pull back on Friday. After hours down another half or 2/3rd of a percent. So I’m thinking about selling a couple of 8/26 puts. NVDA has been my favorite - but their earnings are on the Tuesday calendar. That makes it pretty much a coin flip.

AMAT and ISRG are other short 8/26 put candidates. I’d rather not have to buy AMAT shares. I wouldn’t mind buying NVDA or ISRG shares. Difficult decision whether to sell after the drop at the opening bell in 8 hours (assuming the futures don’t reverse) or wait for another drop on Tuesday (and maybe even wait until Wednesday with the NVDA earnings announcement on Tuesday). Actually I don’t know if NVDA reports before or after the Tuesday close.

Thinking about selling ISRG 220826 PUT 217.5
1.40/1.80/1.58 bid/ask/last

ISRG: $224.78 close (-$4.81) $223/$224.77 bid/ask
52 week range: $187-$370
 
#11,606
#11,606
Bitcoin is back under $21,500. If it drops another 8-10% I think that I’ll be trying to sell the MicroStrategy puts again. I missed the chance when MSTR was recently around $200 (actually it was around $150 a few weeks before I started watching it). Dang MSTR stock shot up to over $350 in just a couple of weeks. $283 close (12.76% fall on Friday). $283 is in between the current bid/ask.
 
#11,607
#11,607
Velo Vol said:
What do you usually see?

People who follow technical stuff say it's still kind of bullish, but there's been negative sentiment all along . . . so rather confusing.
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It's usually the opposite with Calls being the main position compared to puts. 64% is really high and indicates that we could go to 4400. We'll see. Market definitely down the last two days so maybe the shorts are just coming in with too many funds while volume is slowly increasing.
 
#11,608
#11,608
Thunder Good-Oil said:
Regular Fidelity iPhone app. Clicked on MARKETS at the bottom of the home screen. Scrolled down to Top News. Clicked on View News and Videos. Clicked PLAY on Bloomberg TV. It defaulted just above the Bloomberg TV screen to News. Viewpoints is the other option. It won’t let me minimize it though. With CNBC on Ameritrade I can minimize it and go to other windows while it continues to broadcast.
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I don't want to watch on a phone. I saw a post from 2021 that you can access Windows desktop through ATP, but I haven't installed that.
 
#11,609
#11,609
mrorange211 said:
It's usually the opposite with Calls being the main position compared to puts. 64% is really high and indicates that we could go to 4400. We'll see. Market definitely down the last two days so maybe the shorts are just coming in with too many funds while volume is slowly increasing.
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Not today.

My theory, based on nothing other than hearing other people talk, is that we're going to be in a 3800-4200ish range through November.

I may regret posting this.
 
#11,610
#11,610
Down we go! Even bonds are down now. Looks like the APE debut is making everybody depressed.
Is this a buy day?
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#11,620
#11,620
Velo Vol said:
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I had looked into getting some more international exposure, but nothing was looking attractive.

Ireland was doing fantastic about 10-20 years ago. Not so sure now.

I almost invested in the Norway ETFs a couple years ago - they might be a good idea now with their heavily oil dependent economy and oil becoming more attractive (Buffett’s in the process of buying 50% of Occidental)

France embraced nuclear, has good geography, and isn’t as bad with demographics.

Japan has a huge economy, but their aging population is a problem.

Emerging markets are risky but might have opportunities with supply chains needing to be reconfigured.

Israel - there are some excellent companies that are/were based in Israel. They are in a frightening neighborhood.

China is a better value today, but I don’t like the idea of the CCP. They are evil.

Brazil - ??? (Nice sized economy).

Canada - might be a good option. Too bad that the highly populated areas lean Socialist. It would be sweet if the resource rich western provinces would defect and become US states. Maybe we can trade California for them.

Mexico - I don’t like the corruption and the lawlessness.

Australia - ???

Italy - ???

South Korea - might be a reasonable bet. Their population is younger than many.

UK - not sure if there’s a compelling reason to invest there instead of the USA.

Germany - was a solid economy not long ago. But they’re a mess right now after hitching their wagon to Russia energy.

$Euro - recently worth less than $1.00. Maybe that will translate to US based companies with a lot of international revenue being beneficiaries. Caterpillar is what I think of first. Maybe some defense contractors as well.

Yes. Non-USA has kind of been dead money for a while.
 
#11,622
#11,622
Thunder Good-Oil said:
I had looked into getting some more international exposure, but nothing was looking attractive.

Ireland was doing fantastic about 10-20 years ago. Not so sure now.

I almost invested in the Norway ETFs a couple years ago - they might be a good idea now with their heavily oil dependent economy and oil becoming more attractive (Buffett’s in the process of buying 50% of Occidental)

France embraced nuclear, has good geography, and isn’t as bad with demographics.

Japan has a huge economy, but their aging population is a problem.

Emerging markets are risky but might have opportunities with supply chains needing to be reconfigured.

Israel - there are some excellent companies that are/were based in Israel. They are in a frightening neighborhood.

China is a better value today, but I don’t like the idea of the CCP. They are evil.

Brazil - ??? (Nice sized economy).

Canada - might be a good option. Too bad that the highly populated areas lean Socialist. It would be sweet if the resource rich western provinces would defect and become US states. Maybe we can trade California for them.

Mexico - I don’t like the corruption and the lawlessness.

Australia - ???

Italy - ???

South Korea - might be a reasonable bet. Their population is younger than many.

UK - not sure if there’s a compelling reason to invest there instead of the USA.

Germany - was a solid economy not long ago. But they’re a mess right now after hitching their wagon to Russia energy.

$Euro - recently worth less than $1.00. Maybe that will translate to US based companies with a lot of international revenue being beneficiaries. Caterpillar is what I think of first. Maybe some defense contractors as well.

Yes. Non-USA has kind of been dead money for a while.
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I’ve had DODFX for at least a decade. I diversify, and I keep thinking at some point it’ll get moving, but basically meh.
 
#11,623
#11,623
Thunder Good-Oil said:
I had looked into getting some more international exposure, but nothing was looking attractive.
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India? South America?

It would be nice to have a foreign hedge, at least when the US slows down. But there's the US sneezing/world catching a cold problem.

Also, the dollar being high right now is no bueno for emerging markets.
 
#11,624
#11,624
It's hard to tell. People kick these ideas around all the time, do you want to exclude China, or include it, what's really an emerging market. The end is nobody really knows what's going up. I think all-india funds would be an okay hold. I was concerned about how they would do with Covid, but that is basically over for investing purposes. I have VALE stock still, HQ in Brazil. A Brazil fund might be pretty good long term. Brazil is a big important country with a pretty stable government, but economic forecasts are recession right now. I think of them as a country with all the problems they had 30 years ago, but they really don't deserve that. Apparently, those are the problems of Argentina today.
 
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