Soon and very soon.
Some people can afford to self-insure their homes. But most people can't.
I'm losing track of this... is dratsum a Surf alias?
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Cash-settled would be too easy to manipulate. Big players could run the stock way up or down right at expiry to collect on their options.
That's silly -- it's like saying "When your house doesn't burn down, are you going to be happy about the cost you paid for insurance?"
I think you meant to write 'long in [put] options,' in which case the answer is yes.
The present market structure is imperfect, agreed, but think back to the treatment retail orders got before ~2001 when options were pit-traded......
Not sure what you mean, because 7-10% annualized is definitely HTB. In any case, Wall St is uneager to let the lucrative stock-loan biz become...
I think OneChicago is talking about GC names. With respect to tight HTB pricing, I wouldn't get my hopes up.
You can "doubt" all you want, but those are the facts on the ground, as perceived by the managers themselves.[IMG]
Is the errata as long as the original book?
To avoid confusion or concern, you might want to clarify how your P/A trading is firewalled off from your customer flows.
And emerging managers without super-compelling track records sometimes take 0&0 these days just to get some AUM points on the board to establish...
The levered-ETF "headwind" is an urban legend. Not for those without futures accounts, either by choice or by mandate. What "options contracts"?...
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