Tuesday, October 18, 2011

trading options without worrying about time decay!


options are blessings for the traders who want to trade with controlled risk.
unlike futures, options have limited risk.

but they have a serious problem
- time decay!

their premium value decays as expiry comes closer!

i always wondered if there was any way to bypass this severe limitation.

hedging a bought option with writing another was, somehow,
not a very lucrative and convincing way.

but recently i came out with a simple but effective way
to over this disadvantage.

i noticed
that 80% of the price movement
happens in 20% of the time.

the operators use the rest of time
to accumulate or distribute
within a range
thus "wasting precious time of traders"!

how about if could take a position in options
just when the price "aeroplane" is about to take off?

why take the seat while it may keep standing
at the tarmac for a few hours or even days?

this way one can use options till the last day of expiry!!!

with this idea under my belt
all i had to do was
search for probable signals
when the price is about to move big
besides the signals
when the meat of the price movement has happened
and it may enter the phase of consolidation.

i did it with rsi and william%r.
one can do this
with any indicators of choice.

what do we do for the rest of the time?

well,
we remain in the departure lounge
watch tv, read magazine, eat popcorn and sip a cola
imported from the nation of the operators!

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