have experience with both of them. no difference imo. there may be a different treatment of customers' funds if IB goes bankrupt but even that i...
i have to give it to you. this seems to be surprisingly weak. let's hear the CC. if we go below 20.90 i may even lose some money which i...
at least i know to who i sold the puts... btw for proceeds i bough more OTM calls...
well, i do not remember what exactly was the max-pain for each individual stock on the list as of 9dec. after all that's why the tool discussed...
max pain was actually ~10.80 for quite some time. so here you go - stock price from 12.8 to 10.80 as of now. the reason is exactly the same as the...
good. note that some of the criticism from skeptics in this thread is warranted and needs to be taken into consideration when the max pain...
if you don't like it then don't use it. that's all one can say. every trader has his own tools... e.g. i do not believe in quite a few technical...
nice job indeed! some suggestions. 1. graph: use less similar colors for puts' pain and calls' pain. 2. calculations: each option is...
well i do not have time to do the work for others. but we could have a look at these 25 stocks - they should be more inclined to max pain...
spindr0, with all due respect your analysis is completely useless for this particular problem. max pain "manipulation" is NOT about pinning a...
i did not say that max pain is a measure of illiquidity. rather the illiquidity is a prerequisite for being able to use max pain to your...
option pain is very important but only in specific circumstances. in general the stock should be relatively illiquid so that it does not cost...
not everybody has a base currency in USD...
i did not try anything. if you want to pick up on few words from the OP post so be it - I could not care less. The important is the message -...
good post OP. with respect to Chinese losing if Ben takes rates down that's very true - in a material sense. A. China does not MtM...
+1 made my day...:D :D :D
just another bubble created by a central bank that is about to pop. if people do not get the pattern by now the this planet gets better ruled by...
and of course we can have a 3 agent economy by adding the government. the government can issue more money and hand it to the borrower (e.g....
he does not. he goes BK and bank does a write-down. to quote you "That is exactly what is happening with mortgage foreclosures, credit card...
read my post again - this was a thought experiment for you... if the guy borrowed for consumption (difficult when he is only alone in the...
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