Recent content by MDCigan

When first starting up, how does one get listed and officially tracked on the major databases, and is there a minimum AUM requirement or number of outside investors to be considered? Thanks.

What are the regulations and/or relevant regulatory body when it comes to trading options on futures? Let's say that one's fund was primarily trading equity options but that a small percentage was dedicated to trading futures options. Would both the SEC and NFA be involved. Thanks

Do the two have to be mutually exclusive? I'm not sure I understand why that would have to be the case. It would seem to me that one's overall option trading portfolio could have both long gamma and short gamma trades. Indexes and/or stocks with relatively high IV could be more conducive to...

Riskarb, Just a question, not meant in a negative way, but isn't this type of trade that is the proverbial stepping in front of freight trains to pick up nickels? Everything I've read and studied on options trading (just finished Baird's Option Market Making) plus my own LIMITED...

Hey Mav, Majorly delayed response here, but I wanted to respond because either you misunderstood what I am trying to do or I am missing something big-time. What am I trying to do? In a nutshell, I am making a LONG-TERM directional bet and attempting to do it in a manner that has MINIMAL...

Don, I have two questions for you regarding your answer above in terms of somebody being a prop trader under Bright vs. forming and setting up their own hedge fund. 1. Do you allow the trader to trade the markets (equities, futures, currencies), instruments (underlying, options), and time...

This is another trade idea/possibility I have been looking at. Personally, I think the Naz, and many tech and Internet stocks are in the midst of another bubble. They are currently selling at valuation levels well above all historical medians and at levels higher then any previous value...

This is a trade idea I have been playing around with. The idea is to try and structure a trade that has a very high upside potential with minimal risk for long-term structural/secular trends. Necessary trade conditions to use this: 1. Fundamental - You believe the market/underlying is...

I would agree. I spent some time the other day looking at stocks with huge short interests and what happened to IV as they gapped up during an apparent short squeeze and/or stocks making parabolic moves up. IV typically increased during these episodes so it definitely seems possible for IV to...

Yeah, I've got a couple of them saved in pdf format. I've also got Coulda Woulda Shoulda saved as pdf if you want that also. Send me a private message with your e-mail address and I will send them.

Here is an excerpt from an old newsletter of mine which I think addresses the issue/question here. FWIW, the newsletter was the old Saliba newsletter and this was written by one of his trading partners so I am pretty confident this is right. It confirms what Jan is trying to analyze...

I could not disagree with this statement more strongly, and I find it contradictory to say volatility can be mispriced by the "market" but "valuations" cannot. There is no logical reason to assume that the aggregrate market participants which is "the market" somehow consistently gets pricing...

Couple of thoughts here because I think this is potentially a dangerous line of thinking because it has the potential to make one give up on the idea of trading options or the opportunities that exist. I really see this as analogous to the line of thinking in equity world which says the...