Hi all, sorry for being late replying I was busy for a while making money :thumb:
Thank you all for paying attention to my words, proceeding with my post let's first talk credit spread:
since time decay is your enemy so if you decide to take it on your side you need to write options; but writing options contains immense risk so buying a protective call/put against your short position creates a credit spread for you. For both markets trending/nontrending you always have a credit spread as Bullish Put Spread, Bearish Call Spread, Long Condor etc. Having a credit spread rewards you even if market moves to your anticipation, hangs around there and protects your position if it's against your opinion.
So far OTM call/put are concerned the problem is within delta if you are on long position; but I consider spot and 2 nearing position as ATM so if you are trading them it's not a problem. Trading ITM will also not rewards you well since delta will never become 100% so ATM pays you the best.
Spreads are only advised if you keep overnight position since not a lots of broker allow multi leg order so spread are not good for intra day trade.
Hope I am contributing to as per expectation
regards
virendra rao
Thank you all for paying attention to my words, proceeding with my post let's first talk credit spread:
since time decay is your enemy so if you decide to take it on your side you need to write options; but writing options contains immense risk so buying a protective call/put against your short position creates a credit spread for you. For both markets trending/nontrending you always have a credit spread as Bullish Put Spread, Bearish Call Spread, Long Condor etc. Having a credit spread rewards you even if market moves to your anticipation, hangs around there and protects your position if it's against your opinion.
So far OTM call/put are concerned the problem is within delta if you are on long position; but I consider spot and 2 nearing position as ATM so if you are trading them it's not a problem. Trading ITM will also not rewards you well since delta will never become 100% so ATM pays you the best.
Spreads are only advised if you keep overnight position since not a lots of broker allow multi leg order so spread are not good for intra day trade.
Hope I am contributing to as per expectation
regards
virendra rao