Optionsellers.com goes bust and the apology video is painful to watch

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by Sweet Bobby, Nov 17, 2018.

  1. JSOP

    JSOP

    Well when they are unhedged, anything is scary because anything can happen no matter how "tailed" they are especially when they are combined with high leverage.
     
    #271     Nov 21, 2018
  2. JSOP

    JSOP

    If he wants to work on the jury, he needs to take that watch and those cufflinks off. Apparently they are not popular with the masses. LOL
     
    #272     Nov 21, 2018
  3. Daal

    Daal

    Thats why perma options selling sucks, you are forced to stay super small in size so the profitability (when it exists) is not that significant. The alternative, like this guy did, is to lever up and sell more options than its prudent. It might work for a while but one day that will bite you in the ass.
     
    #273     Nov 21, 2018
  4. tsznecki

    tsznecki

    Saw the excel. If they simply sold the puts, they would be just fine. Don't ever recall NG crashing downwards.
     
    #274     Nov 21, 2018
  5. ZBZB

    ZBZB

    When shale gas came online NG had a massive downtrend. Look at the monthly chart on tradingview for 2008/2009. Went from 13.5 to 2.5. The winter/summer spread April/May led to a hedgefund wipeout on several Billion dollar losses. It is called the widowmaker spread.
     
    #275     Nov 21, 2018
  6. Disagree. Same. Suicide, death penalty or life long sentence. There are things a human being especially adults, need to be cognicent about which is that certain violations can kill people. The end result is the same, whether you speed and kill people or whether you are drunk driving or are in other ways grossly negligent which costs peoples' lives. Speeding a train just above the limit is a different thing than racing at double the speed limit. A driver who races at 50 miles per hours through a 25 miles per hour speed limit zone and kills a child should in my opinion be seated on the electric chair. Judgment "not fit to live among the rest of society"

     
    #276     Nov 21, 2018
  7. Exactly and if he indeed loaded up on those tail shorts he should be held liable even with his personal assets down to the last gold crown in his wive's mouth. But his watch must go first :)

     
    #277     Nov 21, 2018
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  8. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    My point exactly. Clients with managed accounts get daily and monthly statements of all trades, did anyone look at them?
     
    #278     Nov 21, 2018
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  9. Not those who consider those investments fuck-you money.

     
    #279     Nov 21, 2018
  10. ZBZB

    ZBZB

    March April spread is the widowmaker. Went from 30c to $1.50 last week
     
    #280     Nov 21, 2018