my guess is because AAPL weekly OI has highest at 450$. hence they would not make it run more than 450$ to take the calls premiums. now that earnings week Op ex has happened AAPL will run.probably tuesday is the day i am thinking.
that is why you, roy and others who trade intra day is the only one which works out in these markets. any ways these high beta stocks move at least 10$ in a day.every day is its own day.
my 2 cents.

its not the evil MM's legend. its them who are writing calls and puts.its in their interest to make maximum out of their money. why option traders look at max pain theory in that case. look at this page and see how OI plays a lot these days.
http://aaplpain.com/?page_id=32

market makers know how to make the stocks trade in a range until all the calls and puts go worthless.then they will run them.if u see the site aaplpain.com he explains in what range aapl stock will trade every week.

zecco,optionshouse do not allow after 12pm to buy options the same expiry day.looks like we need to have an account where it allows just in case.

Jenna your goog call is more than double now.11.50.wow...sick calls.u r amazing...the tips u gave me on technicals are amazing.i did not make on goog call as i bought weeklies and took loss yesterday.will be following ur tips.

even GOOG touched 580.i could have got out with minimum loss.this shows us holding over nite is waste and we should keep money for friday to trade. those hedgies know when to run which is last 4 to 5 hours of expiration. every friday there are some huge runners.

the people who are having 10 baggers might had same 20%,40%,100% initially. success makes one more successful. once they have those small gains consistently then it means the strategy and technicals they are following are working. that is when you get confident and hold a couple of them for 10 baggers....
walking before running is very important.
just my 2c....

sometimes i wish i had sell trigger like yours.i am so reluctant to take loss with the hope of profit.that is killing me....

take a look at aaplpain.com. he is very good in predicting how apple trades in a range because of options.apple is the most manipulated stock on the street because of options.it always trades in a range to make both calls and puts worthless.that is why lot of good option traders write the calls or puts instead of buying naked calls or puts.for that we should have level 3 access.

lessons from NFLX POS and AAPL earnings.AAPL had lot of the people in calls and that is why it jumped at the open and fell so as to kill the calls premiums.
NFLX POS had lot of people betting on puts and it jumped at the open and kept at that top range.
i did not play any of those as i stopped playing earnings because of this s**T.
lesson here is house always wins unless we are nimble to reverse our positions. but how do we do that with small trading accounts and no day trading ability is the big part of the puzzle.

Out GOOG 580 W C @0.10.i could have exited several times at several prices.i held it and paid the price.

so pissed on my goog calls.i could have sold at 0.90 for a small profit and now i am stuck.

i found out holding options overnite is completely losing strategy.play what runs every day either on calls side or puts side and take gains whenever you have.
of course its easier said than to follow.i wanted to do that every day and some how end up holding overnite.

In GOOG 580 W C @0.70

your plays are very good.your selection of plays is especially good.how r u doing that, if i may ask.

i should have bought some SLV 33's as well.lod is 0.03 same as where u bought. i was looking for a kind of options trader like you.your strategy is very good.

bunch of idiots and bunch of stupid ideas from behind.spending trillions of dollars to boost economy and yet there lies the simple idea.
any way spending trillions to give to corporations just give a freaking 1 million$ to every family and ask them to pay off the loans including mortgage.i do not know exact number of adults in the country but will be less than 300 million.so lets assume 200 million.so, spend 200 mill dollars and get back more than 100 million dollars in loan repayments.everything will be fixed for 100 million dollars. duh..isn't that simple....lol

yep...i got the 35$ weeklies at 0.02.just 15 calls worth 45$ with commissions.hope it works out for us...

Is QE2.5 sure now.i followed your alert and bought some SLV 35 calls other day.

everything is ramping up.QE2.5?

Out QQQ W 60$ C @0.44..need a winning trade.

yep.keeping in tight range until all premiums are screwed.wow this is insane.we retail people need to figure out this s*** and avoid getting screwed like this.
i wonder what would have happened if all the retail tried to play today.

IN QQQ W 60$ C @0.34

looks like its better to play QQQ rather than AAPL.

AAPL plan for tomorrow.from where ever it opens it might have a chance of +10$ move.need to grab those calls whose premium is less than 2$.

earnings always huge luck.look at AAPL.calls premiums were like so high for less than 450.now its trading at 452. who knows at what price will open.then since its the weeklies we have to see where the calls open.and on top of that AAPL is the most manipulated stock for options premiums.

with AAPL huge i am thinking u should be fine.

AMD looks like not good.

AAPL will beat huge.that is because even after knowing that i am not playing.that itself will make the wish come true.lol.

nice bud.i wanted to buy those but i did not.i knew it would do good as the tech industry did good in holiday season.

CNBC another low for them.do not know how low those idiots would go to.bunch of crap and BS.

wow. your SLV calls are already 0.14.if you could post real time it will be awesome.finally i am seeing someone who picks little longer plays.i was looking for this from long time. thanks for posting...

me too.this week sucks for me as well.

you guys following jimmy's picks in first 10 mins.insane.there has to be some way to figure this out.they r moving so fast i am unable to get in those.by the time i wanted its too late.

so true. previously all the stocks which are over bought and at least 3 continuous daily green candles will definitely have 1 red candle.look at most of them.5,6,7,8,9 daily green candles.insane.stocks have to decouple from the market trend.then only daily charts mean a squat.otherwise watch 5 min chart and take a pick.lol.

i thought only etf options are traded between 4pm to 4.15 pm. not the stocks.

this is why guessing in the future is futile.every day is its own day.

Out of my LVS puts for a loss at 0.10.again over nite holdings did not work for me. i am in a bad slump.

On CME 250 is too far away.initially it appears it is moving but after a while it does not.i did the same on tuesday and lost.

Out AMZN $190 M P @ .52.. tired of it going back and forth.