Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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The Importance of IV
Here’s an interesting options anecdote. Last week, I decided to “buy” a $300 March put on MSTR. I use quotes because I am not insane enough to actually buy it. I was just curious what the price would do.
I sort of forgot about it until just now, but since the stock has gone up literally three figures since last week, I figure the put would be down 95% or something. In fact, it was down just a FEW percent, even though it is massively out of the money now. The reason? A soaring IV, as our cool new options charts shows.
Fading Light
It isn’t often that one can find a stock that manages to fall every day, especially in the face of a corrupt government that has thrown tens of trillions of dollars at debt at a system to try to make it seem prosperous, but Lumen Technologies (LUMN) is comporting itself nicely. My March $20 puts on this are up 50%, and I’m holding on.
Turning Bullish On Supermicro
Options Charts Progress
The move to the new servers a couple of weekends ago went rather well. I’d give it a B+, and we’ve been spending the time since then tidying up here and there.
The only major lingering issue is the fact that folks cannot stack to Socialtrade anymore. We are working on a new solution to that – – perhaps getting away from the notion of a bookmarklet altogether – – and I’ll be sure to make quite a fuss once it’s ready to use again.
Let’s talk about Options Charts, though, which is the newest feature for Slope’s awesome Platinum members. We’ve made some important improvements here as well.
