Recent content by vegamedic

an illiquid futures market OP wants to trade exists. not many of those left, sounds like fun and a good way to make money if you're any good

i can't speak to your modelling but i think corn has been gotten beat a little to hard lately...i live in corn country and growing conditions haven't changed materially after the heavy july rains. i'd be interested to see how much px movement has had to do with supplier flows (big producers...

Not to be rude, but if you can't get through Natenberg you probably shouldn't be trading derivatives yet. Try again.

I'm actually more interested in what kind of farm you have than anything else

and yet here you are. absolutely embarrassing.

i searched "ORATS" and the full name was the title of the first result. C'mon son.

how has this constant shill not been banned yet

your current broker. get TDA's thinkorswim client, the "risk profile" graphs are what you're looking for

don't be snide towards Robert, he's contributed more to this community than most and deserves some respect. you're asking for tax advice -- a question that's been asked dozens of times btw -- on a trading forum. call your accountant/tax attorney.

for starters, compounding doesn't work like that when you can only buy/sell options or SPY shares in integer increments

reveal the ticker or get gone

Standard deviation moves are garbage in the context of gap risk. Not to mention a 1sd move only captures ~2/3 of moves in a normal dist.

SPX vs SPY or another ETF will depend on your size

put/call ratios are notoriously inaccurate because they don't tell you the direction or intent of flow (hedging, put selling, outright put buying for speculation). so, no.