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These are fair points. All I'm saying is if the fellow here feels uncomfortable buying into this 10+ year rally, there are other alternatives....
Wording is a bit confusing. Ok, using more, MORE simpler terms. Red line goes up, SPX goes down immediately. Blue line goes down, SPX goes up one...
elaborated a bit more for your convenience.
I would not be surprised if you said for a 65 year old. But for a 28 year old??? Damn, what's with this hostility about NOT FOMOing in at the top?...
dozu, First of all, this is kind of interesting. Thanks for sharing. Now the most obvious conclusion here is to just bash retail: "went net short...
NASDAQ (w/ annualized div yield) has been on fire lately. :strong:
I unironically saw you make this same statement before October of last year. ;)
The most prudent thing to do is to go long bonds (treasuries) or short the market. A buy and hold via a long fund sounds logical (here we go with...
when trading shares, look at the IV on the ATM options. Low IV = everyone knows what the fair value of the stock is, likely to move in consistent...
HFTs front running bid/ask to scalp pennies.
The mother of all pigs here is Sallie Mae.
Tesla is a company where market participants can derive polarizing yet rational conclusions from the same set of information. Which means vol is...
Selling OTM puts on the index is synthetically equivalent to buying a junk bond with AAA coupon rate; Not only is the return abysmal but the trash...
....probably not. haha
Yea I agree with regards to speculation. For these events, it's really hard to get an estimate of how big the gap will be without looking at...
What do you guys think some of the advantages are for both institutional and retail traders? Here's my two cents: Institutional - 1....
Let's say you have a small biotech company XYZ trading at $50, expecting to report pivotal phase III results in September. The one month out ATM...
Hmm, yea, this is in line with what I'm thinking too. There's still quite of a bit risk premia left on VIX calls since Feb and it's probably...
Sorry should've spelled that out. It's Near The Money. ~45 deltas in my case.
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