a friend of mine has an interview at Capstone Co. tomorrow. just wondering if any of you have background on the company for him to review...
re-reading your posts, i would like to add, i am fully aware that 'past performance is no guarantee of future performance'. i.e. i know that just...
i fully understand the risks. i am a derivatives marketer. i'm just asking if anyone knows of a broker that will let me do it. pls don't...
here is my situation. i would like to short index options with <10 days to expiry. they will be way out of the money. i just want to collect...
Depends what you want to do. if you want to trade from home then you need neither. end of story. if you want to consult or be a banker, do the...
I'm looking for traders at hedge funds or IBanks who trade volatility. I market OTC EqDerivatives and figured I would turn here for potential...
here's a follow up to the original post: how do you learn to trade in practice, not theory? i've read every options book out there, and i know...
we have a 2 person team, with a 3rd guy hedging the vol of all the options. i can see how you'd be worried he doesn't do a good job. from...
the theory is easy, but how is it done in practice? i ask because from everything i read about it you buy an option with a low vol, and...
you can trade equities via CFD to avoid the fee. CFD is a swap where we agree to pay each other the return of the equity (depending on if you...
Easton, CT. can't do it if we're going to be named after the smelliest, most rundown, overpriced, never on-time company in the world....
high/low tick is the highest/lowest actual traded price for a particular contract on a given day. for example, if i say september crude had a...
was the test to see how many times people would make the same mistake over and over again? that link kept asking me for a password over and...
maestro, what happened to the 70 call you wrote?
maestro, do you think IV is high compared to HV, or what else makes you think vol is too hig? sep65P trading 41 IV. 50d HV = 36. i'm...
the standard deviation of the movement of the stock historically. excel has a function to calculate this.
depends what you mean by your "system". if it is truly a system, then i would disagree. systems have defined entry and exit points which should...
that's what i thought. i guess most speculators would just take their view, execute the swap and let it ride, maybe put on a few straddles if...
Any variance swap traders out there? what is 'shadow delta' vs plain delta on a variance swap. i assume it has something to do with the way...
well i guess i'm one of those people who didn't get to start at the top... anyway, i came to this desk from another one, and have quickly come...
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