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His advisor for the bond issuing and other large scale debt structuring is the same one who worked for the Chavez regime, and also from a great corruption scandal in Paraguay. So you can do your math.

Totally agree with that logic, I actually financed an increase in my AMZN long position shorting BABA

For better or worse is the only securities brokers I have access to. I started with stocks and went all the way to options, and sincerely can't complain for both on IBKR. I completely skipped the futures step and boy i'm beginning to love it (at the moment I still feel that I missed too much...

Thank you for your response. Yes purely discretionary, and by algorithmic orders my mistake for not explaining better that I refer to the proprietary IBKR algo orders that supposedly can get you better fills. I've noticed that in such a liquid market it doesn't make any difference.

To take it one step further, there's the somewhat interesting theory of Cem, that the options are the real underlying.

Off topic but as I read you talk a lot on futures, I'm only doing ES and NQ and I can't believe the liquidity (of course read about it all the time, but is different reading vs experiencing it) I'm still polishing my hotkeys (IBKR) but for the setups I'm feeling more comfortable being always a...

I'm finally dipping my toes on futures so this is timely advice for me :D

Imagine being so cocky to talk like that to the +75MM$ dream team :D Hope his portfolio is at least 25.. and I mean HIS, not managed.

nvmd, you already knew Market Chameleon.

bread & butter :D

Currently more focused on the effect of proxima in the skewness of the vol surface. :D

tbh my real edge to date is picking direction. But probably more luck (market trend) than anything :D There's a MA in weekly time frame that works wonders in equities (backtested plenty, forward tested plenty too $$). Some time ago some member told someone (can't remember who were) something...

That was easy! thank you again :D

For this process, should I trust more on the real ATM rather than leaning on the 50D? (still figuring how to quickly discern the highest gamma per unit of theta). And thank you for sharing such valuable insitghts.