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I don’t follow the nuance between your two paragraphs. No one has a winning strategy. but if you do, options are more lucrative?
I do not know what do you mean by "nuances". The two paragraphs are my comments on two different issues/concepts respectively in your comments. For equivalent strategies, ceteris paribus, yes.
there must be a nuance that makes your two seemingly contradictory paragraphs true. 1. no one can have an edge in options because you can’t predict volatility. 2. Options give better payouts than stocks because you can have a volatility and delta view.
Your perception of the two paragraphs being contradictory is wrong. There is no nuances. Like I said, they are just responses to your two totally different comments respectively. Again, how are they contradictory? You still have not explained how they are contradictory. And to clarify, I never said that no one can have an edge. What I said was no one can predict with certainty the richness and cheapness of the volatility of an instrument. You implied that somehow people need to be able to predict richness and cheapness of volatility in order to have an edge
you statement that “No one can predict with certainty” is a truism and doesn’t discount the ability to predict volatility or direction. I’m not sure why you stated. So you are saying, that some people can predict volatility with enough predictive power that they can develop alpha that can earn, and if they also can predict direction, they can earn a lot more with options than with stocks?
That's a direct response to your statement that being able to determine the richness and cheapness of vol. is the only way to have a winning strategy. My response was: well, no one can determine the richness and cheapness of vol. because that determination is based on the ability to predict future volatility which no one can, not with certainty. Without the ability to predict future volatility, one would never be able to determine the relative richness and cheapness of vol. My statement is made to point out that your criteria of someone having a winning strategy based on his/her ability to determine richness and cheapness of vol. is an unfeasible one. Do I really have to spell out the meaning of every single of my sentence in English? I thought your first language is English given that you are born in the United States? What??!! This sentence does not make sentence.
I didn’t mean that someone had to predict volatility with 100percent accuracy. In colloquial trading parlance, “predicting” means “taking a view.” Perhaps I should have been clearer.