How they deal with small share price stocks in some markets is forced board lot trading sizes.
People make too much noise about trading volume. BTW, trading volume has no correlation to liquidity (or potential liquidity) in the market....
Interesting. I find a lot of traders implement automated strategies for day trades only. Few create algos for swing trading positions. Any reason...
What you're describing is an edge. Professionals have edge over retail. This is true. But that doesn't explore whether or not trading is zero sum....
Deep in the money emini put with a delta of -1.00.
I'd like to hear your stories about how you got into automated trading? I'm particularly interested in people who are not software engineers or...
Maybe he means law of large numbers and the asymmetry between payout of wins vs losses. Lottery tickets are losers for the most parts but you part...
LoL. Ya sure. And if you log the log of the log, eventually the line will be more and more horizontal.
But he is right. The returns if you really count since inception of a Standard & Poor's total market index is not as spectacular whether it was...
There are stocks that can be positive sum provided the company has returned more money to shareholders via dividends than its total market...
Tell me that doesn't look parabolic.
LOL so true. Jack Hershey is doing an amazing troll job. I just laugh about the stuff he posts. Its like he is playing the role of this savant...
No offense. But you're clueless and confused. I'm only running with the examples you're providing. And you've been going off topic. I'm not saying...
I think you're getting confused here. And I'm not forgetting anything. You are simplifying things too much. Where do you think this "upside bias"...
Trouble with comprehension? I never said that. I'm only running with your example, since you're saying the stock market is a Koolaid drinking...
What you're describing in your example actually would be considered zero sum if true. Thats why you have to look at it from the lifetime of the...
I agree. The conventional wisdom is derivatives trading are zero sum, but many will then stress equities are not zero sum because 'companies...
Her strategy, and I'm not defending it, is she likes to do strangles because it maximizes profit taking of premium provided her range is set...
Haven't found this discussion. Mostly fragmented whenever it comes up. A zero sum game is where one's gain is another's loss. There are many...
I don't know specifics of what karen does but doesn't she sell the SPX index options instead of the SPY options? In any case, not sure how far OTM...
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