Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
Quote Originally Posted by GambleBotsChafedPenis View Post

commissions...if you're paying a flat fee per trade plus per options contract it saves you on the flat fee part...
god that totally makes sense, thank you.


but who the fuck would trade the flexibility of holding onto a leg worth literally 0 with a potentially infinite upside for like 60 cents a contract?
all depends on your position size...if you are trading around in 1 lots then that $6-7 flat fee takes a huge bite outta your ass since your take profit target on your trade is probably gonna be like $50-200 a trade (huge range, obv, but gonna guess it's about right)...if you're trading like 50 lots that flat fee ain't gonna mean a ton in the grand scheme of things...

EDIT: trading is just like any other business...the more units you can spread your fixed cost over the better...if you're a BSD then yeah legging in is probably the right way to go...if you are just bobbing and weaving with a few contracts here and there, probably best to do it all at once...