RobinHood traders making industry luminaries like Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, and Stanley Druckenmiller look like amateurs. Maybe my teenage son...
Nice Asian stereotype. I agree that markets should trade around the clock with no break and no settlement prices. Max liquidity and continuous...
I need to drink more H2o.
Why only 3 years? I see a 3 decade bull run for gold. Wouldn't suprise me if gold went to 4000 before the S&P 500 did.
The answer is simple. The same strike calls are being priced from different underlying futures. VIX Dec futures are trading approx 1.50 lower than...
Heightened volatility sucks for buy-and-hold investment performance...but it makes for a great trading environment with plenty of opportunity.
Looks like the Saudis and Russians are about to ramp up production in August...probably too soon for oil bulls. I think their strategy is to keep...
We were in the mid-20's less than 2 months ago. The turning point was the OPEC+ cuts finally taking effect on May 1, and the lifting of the...
WTI is going to struggle to get to $50 by Q4.... it can barely stay above $40 and the market keeps rejecting the $41 level (4 days in a row and...
Obviously we all don't mind making steady gradual money in our permanent long-only retirement/equity portfolios, but a purge would be welcome. It...
Nasdaq (QQQs) rally is almost being entirely driven by just 5 stocks which make up almost 50% of the index. Same 5 stocks make up 20% of the S&P...
The market is in neither a bull or bear market. It's stuck in crappy range 3000 - 3200...for over a month now. Everytime we approach 3200, a wave...
I would recommend using a 3rd party data provider if you aren't tracking/recording the IV data yourself. A vendor like ORATS, a sponsor on here,...
I meant it to be more of as a complement, but obviously it didn't come off that way. So I apologize. What I really meant to say is that I would...
In my opinion, always a good idea to delta hedge, unless you have a strong directional bias.
Sometimes being stupid and lucky isn't a bad way to go through life.
"The trades are negative theta, but the options models are incorrect on the negative theta calculations on far out of the money options." The...
Good stuff Bobby. Maybe this is something you should automate and sell for millions to clueless wealth advisors who have no concept of hedging...
In general you want a low vol regime...like a sub-12% VIX environment, and where the upside call IVs are trading in the single digits...
A sphincter says what?
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