Message from @Zyzz
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I see
I'm talking about them because I researched them, but i don't actually use them. I use Schwab
quoting through pleb-tier finance sites is almost real-time now, so that's a decent trade-off
Schwab is like 8 dollars an option trade plus .65 per contract, and they only allow two legs per trade, so building something like an iron condor costs quite a lot which is why I don't bother most of the time
On the Iron Condor I sold there, I think I paid like 30 bucks in fees
Ouch
Ameritrade would be about the same though
Here's a trade I've starting thing about
I was thinking about @Zyzz 's thesis about the S&P500 going up this year
and I was thinking to research it a bit more, but here's my idea
Buy a long term (Maybe a LEAP) OTM call option, but sell a near term call at the same strike
that way trying to save on the time premium
I would need to research more to try to figure out a good window of time
thats an interesting thought
buying the dec 2018 295 strike is ~$2.60. that implies 10% appreciation over 2018
@Zyzz Yeah maybe we can put our heads together and crowdsource this together. (Since this isn't happening right away I think, then I think we have time). Here's the three questions I would like to figure out: 1. What is a reasonable price target that can be achieved this year? 2. When is a reasonable window in which it might reach that target? 3. Are there any reasonable near-term windows where we might think it *won't* hit the target? For example maybe the answers are 4%, September, and March, respectively
Hmm now we're cooking, let me pull those chains up
@ThisIsChris so heres my thought as to how we will figure out a price target. we need forward earnings predictions and then apply a reasonable multiple to it. that will allow us to back into our price target.
we are essentially taking earnings predictions and applying a multiple to it. the trick with the multiple is we need to assess if it could compress or expand
which is very rich.. historically the S&P trades at ~15x
@Zyzz @Deleted User phew, chains:
"according to that the S&P is trading at 21x P/E
which is very rich.. historically the S&P trades at ~15x" @Zyzz what do you think? Is that necessarily bad news? Or should we try to see if earnings might go up?
@ThisIsChris its really about reversion to the mean and from this vantage point it means go down
Doing it this way, I wonder if we should be looking at an ETF with fewer holdings so that we can look into each major holding individually, though if there is another way I would love to know
individual stock research is a lot of work and even with all the research there could be something you just miss or never thought about that tanks the stock.. it could be bad or greedy management.. which for us would be tough for us to be privy to
Hey that's OK then, maybe SPY going up isn't the thing, maybe we should be looking at SPY to go down over the year then. That's actually kind of more interesting because we might expect a slight boost at the beginning thanks to the tax cuts, and then a reversion later in the year
i used to pick stocks and i did not do very well and it was mostly due to stock specific issues so i changed to pick sectors or invest in income producing securities like preferred stock
yeah my issue with that is i have no idea when the market will tank. i know we are in a bubble but it seems like trump and everyone else in congress is deadset on blowing it until it pops on its own. i am not about to be short this market it just seems like their is too much momentum with the tax bill etc. it'd be like shorting the market in 2005/2006 imo
I'm back, catching up to the thread...
I agree with @Zyzz The aggregate P/E of the S&P is too high for me to be comfortable making large bets on upwards moves
If I were to do that, I would want to hedge for a big crash
I think it's going to go up 10% on the year or nosedive hard.
but that and $4 will get you a coffee at (((Starbucks)))
@Zyzz here's a question, do you think we could say that even if the market goes up possibily, can we be confident saying it *won't* go up 10%? Maybe selling those OTM calls is a way to go on this
@Deleted User what catalyst do you see for a nose dive?
War is the most obvious thing, but a general bubble-popping correction seems overdue.
Nose dive not sure, but we could get interest rate hikes from the fed
@ThisIsChris i am seeing dec 2018 295 strike calls sell at ~2.6. i dont think thats enough premium for me to hold for a year with unlimited loss potential
I don't see things staying static is all I'm sayin'