"Those guys(sob) on the trading floor with last names ending in vowels are so secular(weeping) and divisive". I'm going to die laughing tonight.
Not my glory days , Snowflake... Let me educate you a bit, I was the first of my crew to jump to Globex in `98 .. when most liquidity was still in the big pits... A place where a sensitive fella like yourself would have been flambeed, shown the door and not made it through a single trading session... but please go on & educate us all on Globex while ignoring the facts of the past, slugger.
You continue to ignore my question, which is in and of itself an answer I guess. So for the third time: What do you consider unsafe about Monday expiry options? BTW, while you were being a tough guy in the pit I was out being a military pilot. You may or may not have had the fortitude to do that, but given that I put my life on the line on a number of occasions I'm pretty confident in my ability to deal with a bunch of jackasses like you on a trading floor where the most danger you had to deal with was getting hit in the face by some guy waving his arms. Nice try to redirect from answering the question you seem to be unable to answer though.
You`re barking up the wrong tree... Never uttered anything about option settlement being unsafe... You may want to wipe off your glasses & reread the posts. Family member , fathers father was a test fighter pilot for Lockheed Martin in N. Hollywood CA. in `60`s... No one ever discussed him & when I did , things got quiet.... did some digging recently & just discovered his death was classified by Gov`t... found the grave stone in N. Hollywood cemetery.. He gave the ultimate commitment. Anyhoo, carry on...
"Family member , fathers father was a test fighter pilot for Lockheed Martin in N. Hollywood CA. in `60`s... No one ever discussed him & when I did , things got quiet.... did some digging recently & just discovered his death was classified by Gov`t... found the grave stone in N. Hollywood cemetery"...To steal a quote from Apocalypse Now-"the bulls@@t piles up so high here, you need wings to stay above it".
My bad, Stocktracker had the unsafe comment. One would think with that background you'd be a little more respectful about who you accuse of being so sensitive they couldn't last a day on the trading floor. You obviously have an overly high opinion of floor traders as some kind of tough guys, I'd maintain that most of them wouldn't last a day in a number of jobs in America from garbage collector to fruit picker let alone pilot.