Post #2181 by TGMark on the Mechanical Investing board

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When I buy calls I place an order for the full number of contracts I want.

Thanks. What if there have been no option trades at your given strike price in some time?
I suppose as long as there is some bid and ask volume, the bid and ask should be meaningful and you go off of those?
Could you potentially offer a price outside the spread?

What I have been contemplating is picking up these long dated calls at say four or five different strikes, with more weighting on the lower ones.
The whole premise is that the underlying is going to recover, at least somewhat, which is if course a big risk.

Mark

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