Options Order Flow Summary

Not all conventional commodity trading folklore is correct. Most of it is designed to make you feel "comfortable" in a trade. Feeling "comfortable" is the fastest way to the poorhouse in commodity trading. We are paid to provide liquidity and take on risk. Read on to see if you adhere to this basic and important market law…

Options Order Flow Summary

Not all conventional commodity trading folklore is correct. Most of it is designed to make you feel "comfortable" in a trade. Feeling "comfortable" is the fastest way to the poorhouse in commodity trading. We are paid to provide liquidity and take on risk. Read on to see if you adhere to this basic and important market law…

Options Order Flow Summary

Not all conventional commodity trading folklore is correct. Most of it is designed to make you feel "comfortable" in a trade. Feeling "comfortable" is the fastest way to the poorhouse in commodity trading. We are paid to provide liquidity and take on risk. Read on to see if you adhere to this basic and important market law…

Options Order Flow Summary

Mid-day Options Order Flow

A bull call spread tends to be profitable when the underlying stock increases in price. It can be established in one transaction, but always at a debit (net cash outflow). The call with the lower strike price will always be purchased at a price greater than the offsetting premium received from writing the call with the higher strike price.

Options Order Flow Summary

A bull call spread tends to be profitable when the underlying stock increases in price. It can be established in one transaction, but always at a debit (net cash outflow). The call with the lower strike price will always be purchased at a price greater than the offsetting premium received from writing the call with the higher strike price.

Establishing a bull call spread (a.k.a. vertical spread) involves the purchase of a call option on a particular underlying stock, while simultaneously writing a call option on the same underlying stock with the same expiration month, at a higher strike price.