What Is DTE (Days to Expiration)?
DTE is the variable that turns an option from a position into a deadline — and whether a contract expiring today counts as 0 or 1 sounds trivial until it gates an exit rule.
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DTE is the variable that turns an option from a position into a deadline — and whether a contract expiring today counts as 0 or 1 sounds trivial until it gates an exit rule.
Copying same-day contracts compresses every weakness in the replication pipeline into a few hours. Delay that is a rounding error on a swing trade is decisive here, and the cost of that delay grows through the session.
Most trailing stop guidance is written for equities and applied to options unchanged. The three places it breaks are specific: gamma, theta, and a bid-ask spread that can widen tenfold between your entry and your exit.