The broker is not the one writing contracts that you buy. That would be a serious conflict of interest anyhow..
A little decline and everyone gets their panties in a bunch like usual :) Dont worry, the market will steadily continue it's incline as it has...
Because that's the entire premise of OPs post...he asked what would happen if he was assigned
Fair enough, but even if it's a debit spread that's in profit, I believe your margin would increase as you're assigned the shares. What if you're...
If your long hedge expires OTM and you're exercised on your short ITMs, you're left holding much more risk than you had with your option spread,...
You're screwed.
Pay attention. That wasn't the point at all. I feel like I'm replying to some robot posting randomized comments from zerohedge or the WSJ op ed.
Yeah, the mixed-market gift economies of absolutely all successful ancient civilizations are great examples of just that. Especially the huge...
Read my post in it's entirety again. As explained, even the free market prefers fractional banking. Where is your God now?
I've read about the The Wörgl Experiment before, and all it does is prove the gold bugs dead wrong. I mean, you have towns that issued their own...
You people still dont get that the purpose and behavior of money is completely different from that of goods. Yet you keep comparing the two......
Oh, the supermarket thing again? LOL. I'm sure bananas and tootsie rolls are great at hedging your USD exposure [img]
Way to move the goalpost. But even if you are being sarcastic, the above is generally correct. Look at the yield on 10-year TIPS, look at the...
You're confusing face value with purchasing power again. The fact that it's face value has decreased has no relevancy to it's purchasing power....
I'm not sure what you mean by "first to use". It's not like the fed is buying their groceries at Walmart, so how is that relevant? Also when the...
It doesn't matter because they function the exact same way as long as it's fractional. Pegging the entire world to gold sounds like a great idea...
Just because you want things to be priced in gold don't mean the world wants the same. Gold-bugs are not the center of the universe, nor do you...
Fiat has no intrinsic value so it makes no sense whatsoever to compare it to gold. The real value of fiat lies in the purchasing power it gives....
Again, the reference price for any currency is not "items", gold, oil, gas prices or anything else you can think of. The reference price of a...
The "free market" is a nonsense utopian dreamworld concept that will never come into existance anywhere anyways. The entire concept is based on a...
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