Recent content by VanishingMediator

The problem with this thread is that it depends on the amount traded. I am not just talking about the lack of need to earn high returns and take greater risks when you already have a lot of money. I am also speaking of hedging pressures (both legal and illegal) that do not scale linearly...

bucket shop? You can trade options on a cash account once daily with like 50 bucks... I figured it was some new guy and I was hoping he would close his position earlier in the day instead of riding it out. The illegitimate hedging pressure against his trade screwed my trade, MS would have...

Dude no. People with 20 billion don't put it in single positions. You don't know what you think you know. Some guy really just lost his shirt.

Well that's 180k out the window.

I didn't, but I suspected from the market reaction it was an opening, and after 15 minutes it showed up on the board

open interest went up 4k after

this guy is out 260k or more so far and he is still in his position This guy is costing me money in the process of ghosting himself

You have no clue what you are doing, you better get out before you lose too much... I can pretty much guarantee that trade is not gonna become profitable.

Game theory is when algorithms from different market makers communicate by sending test sells or buys, or the people in charge of them agree ahead of time not to do a shark frenzy sort of thing where they compete with each other such that none of them gets to collect a large profit and instead...

In layman terms, if a person buys a single share it should have the least impact possible on the price, and if a person buys the entire market's worth of shares the price should theoretically go to infinity. Any Marginal volume purchased should always be positively correlated with price...

All day long, multiple times a day, bringing the price of stocks to the Maximum Pain point every day. How could anyone think the market is not rigged? Yes I understand that with the limited info lvl 2 provides, 10000 shares could wipe out what you see on the order book on one side. All this...

High frequency price fixing is done to capture options premiums and manipulate prices by stopping breakouts and selloffs and drifting the price to max pain level.