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Index
Disclaimer
About Volcube
About the author
About the Volcube Advanced Options Trading Guides series
Introduction
Directional trading
Ignoring implied volatility
Ignoring time decay
Failing to speak Greek
Ignoring option-specific risks
Exercise and expiration
Exercising in-the-money options before expiration (with a caveat for stock options)
Exercising out-of-the-money options at expiration
Not exercising in-the-money options
Ignoring pin risk
Delta mis-management
Showing too tight a market when the spot is insufficiently liquid
Texan delta hedging
Running a delta hedge over an announcement
Gamma Trading
Not working a long gamma hedge
Working a gamma hedge (after the gamma has been sold)
Working a gamma hedge without checking the position Speed
Ignoring large technical support/resistance with gamma hedges
Putting all the gamma hedge eggs in a single basket
Switch Gamma
Not gamma hedging after selling the gamma
Volatility trading
Judging the price of volatility in differing units
Leaving a resting offer/using the wrong delta in a vol trade when spot has moved
Showing too high a bid in long dated options after a shock
Auto-quoting/leaving resting orders over a scheduled announcement
Miscellaneous Option Landmines
Trading stock option conversions when something has happened
Trading when a dividend announcement has been made
Trading when a stock has gone ex-dividend
Trading over a special situation
Creating a vega neutral calendar when the fronts go bid
Ignoring the calendar
Order entry
Buying instead of selling
Wrong expiration
Selling a deep in the money option at 1 tick where the exchange has no mistrade rule
Trading against the wrong underlying price
Preventing losses : an action plan
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