With casinos down, are problem gamblers moving to the stock market??

Discussion in 'Options' started by Cabin111, Apr 29, 2020.

  1. ElCubano

    ElCubano

    Here we go again. Anything you place money on that is not guaranteed is gambling. If you have a edge that is still not guaranteed as the market can eliminate it. like the house you will rake it in until you wont.

    That being said people make a living gambling ha
     
    #21     Apr 30, 2020
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  2. never2old

    never2old

    #22     Apr 30, 2020
  3. hafez50

    hafez50

    Its funny you say that . My neighbor jumped on a crap stock with huge vol Uavs. It ran from 98 cent to $5 today. He wouldn't sell and was up 3 fold and they halted it or something. It went $1.03
     
    #23     Apr 30, 2020
  4. ElCubano

    ElCubano


    The biggest money I have ever seen made is exactly this scenario. It was Siri at .05 before Howard stearn came on board. My buddy held it for 400%.
     
    #24     Apr 30, 2020
  5. Cabin111

    Cabin111

    #25     Apr 30, 2020
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  6. ironchef

    ironchef

    Don't laugh. People not only making a good living gambling, the professional gamblers made millions, billions betting against the house.

    1. There are professional lottery players got rich playing lotteries professionally:

    https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/

    2. Professional horse racing gamblers who made billions:

    https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code-in-hong-kong

    3. Ed Thorp made millions playing blackjack, roulette....

    And we traders make a good living gambling/betting against the market makers on stocks, commodities, currencies....
     
    #26     Apr 30, 2020
  7. never2old

    never2old

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    #27     Apr 30, 2020
  8. lol, show the math of this ....

    we have a winna
     
    #28     Apr 30, 2020

  9. Where are you getting almost zero risk from ?
     
    #29     May 1, 2020
  10. never2old

    never2old

    thanks to both you guys, you got me on this one - my maths suck really bad, it was just me believing Hertz would not go to zero.

    let me know if my maths calculation below is incorrect.

    buy stock at $4, sell $1 covered call get $3.45, $0.55 money at risk if stock goes to zero

    sell $1 put get $0.60, $0.40 risk if stock goes to zero

    total risk to zero $0.95

    is this a small risk or huge risk (yes it's still a risk) for this trade on a company such as Hertz - could they bankrupt, will the stock be sub $1 on option expiry date- if so (all unknown, zero guarantees) then my previous post was stupid to say it's not low risk?

    stock above $1 on expiry net $0.45 on the call + $0.60 on the put = $1.05 profit

    time stamp, see what happened
     
    #30     May 1, 2020