This guy was doing synthetic short naked options. He traded too big for his account size. The small Delta he was short became large Delta with...
All of these leveraged ETFs have a prospectus that's hundreds of pages long. In there you find How they hedge these products with OTC derivative's...
Warren would never trade on margin. Even when he sold naked puts on the stock market in 2008, the agreement with Goldman Sachs was that they...
He was referring to the local menu. Chickens feet for breakfast and pigeons brain for lunch. And for Westerners, you can find pancakes only for...
You can bet the multi million dollar annual bonuses are not clawback! But the guy in the mail room would've been sacked and ......the whistleblower.
The other issue google has is stock options to employees. They gave away $1.8 billion in stock options just in Q4. They are changing the way that...
Her strategy is equivalent of selling premium and effectively being directional until the market comes back. But if she decides to sell premium...
Suggestions are most welcome. To be successful in trading you need an edge. My suggestion is take advantage of your current situation which...
I would be highly suspicious about firms offering to hire you with no capital required. You need to talk to people in the market to find out who...
Those guys are dealt with by liquidity providers who are connected to all the different exchanges across the globe. They can try to move the...
Get a TD account and use their "Ondemand" platform which is only one click away from the trading screen and replay the option markets from the...
If you are clever enough to know how to manage money in a Casino and walk away with too much cash, they put you on the black list and you cant go...
Just to be clear, Karen was not trading that portfolio during 2008 meltdown. If she had, the fund would have blown up sooner. When the markets...
I would think there is a congruence of forces which change the risk profile for these type of trades. A summary would be: 1. The asset management...
I'm an individual so can give advice without company influence but take it for what it costs you which is nothing... Its the Theta decay that is...
The part of these reorgs which is more common than people think is the amount that management get as part of the restructuring. They typically are...
The poor mans covered call with ATM long vs ITM long should give you a positive Ultima and achieve your goal. Buy longer dated ATM call and sell...
This depends on what was your original intent. Did you short futures and buy a bunch of cheap calls to hedge the risk of the market going up? OK -...
They go back to March 2012 for the stock and options for a penny stock $MEMP which was 18.50 on that date with 6 option strikes publishing bid/ask...
This is an interesting approach and I have had some luck doing them. I guess you have to look at the risk vs reward. What happens with a single...
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