I want like 10 years history of all the EOD prices on all the strikes on all the expiration dates on all the stocks... quandl doesn't seem to have...
As warren buffett said, "I prefer a lumpy 15% to a smooth 12%". Sharpe ratio is meaningless unless you have a short term need to liquidate.
Modern portfolio management and the whole idea of being able to quantify risk-adjusted returns is bullshit. Volatility is not risk. Volatility...
I would also seriously consider just sitting around with cash until the sh*t hits the fan later this year...
The target is based on dollar amount but the trade increment should be 200 shares because that's the most shares you can trade for the $1 minimum...
That was just shorthand for saying you can't buy as many of them, so your max gain is lower when you buy ATM options. If you just think the...
So basically I want to simultaneously short two things and keep the dollar value of each of those two shorts as close as possible to $50k because...
ATM options are really expensive, so you never make 20x with ATM options.
Coal isn't going anywhere, because there are plenty of people in develping countries who don't give a shit about your beachfront property getting...
None of those leveraged ETFs should be held long for the long term. I'd dump TNA and buy ATW, AZO, BRK.B, DIS, JPM, LNKD, ORLY, TSM, WFC. Also...
Ya fuck it, just go 100% short UVXY
The idea is that on average the losses will cancel out the gains, if you were just buying calls randomly. But if you have any ability to predict...
nope, it's still asking for 2x the cost of the calls in margin to buy them. Something's buggy with their algo.
So I have a strategy that involves identifying great companies at a low implied volatility and low price relative to intrinsic value and then...
The housing bubble wasn't an unknown unknown. Lots of people knew and were talking about it before the bubble burst, but not enough of them.
* Real estate prices are back up to pre-crash levels. They could crash again given the right trigger....
I want to short sell venezuela government bonds... can IB even do that? Is there any better broker for that?
Which retail broker has the lowest portfolio margin requirement for writing long-dated index puts? Also, what's the best broker for a long-term...
Yellen said recently that if the shit hit the fan she would consider negative interest rates. Also they stopped talking about rate hikes because...
UVXY tracks the volatility index futures. So being long UVXY is being long volatility. UVXY has an insane decay rate of like 70% per year...
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