Recent content by VPhantom

Interesting idea. I'm a complete rookie with options (going to get my feet wet with simple covered calls in my TFSA soon) and I'd be very curious to hear arguments in favor of buying that extra call which uses up most of the covered call's proceeds. I always assumed that rolling the covered call...

How about a chart of the instrument during that time period instead of this subjective description? "A thousand words," and all that.

Wow, that is one heck of a good broker!

How about some basic fact checking. He sold 19K shares/week over the course of 2 years to make that $400M. He still owns more than 90% of the shares he had in 2019. "dumping"… https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/17/instagram-posts/no-link-between-moderna-ceos-deleted-twitter-and-s/...

Round numbers: an order of magnitude less risk of symptomatic infection. 2-4 orders of magnitude less risk of hospitalization upon infection. Near-elimination of the risk of death. Near-elimination of the risk of Long Covid (an issue with at least a quarter of sympatomatic infections without...

…and there's that total lack of human empathy I just mentioned. Others be damned if it inconveniences me! Me! Me!

To a point, which we've unfortunately crossed. Resources have become limited. Roughly 70% of emergency hospital visits and admissions are from unvaccinated Covid-related patients right now. (About 75% of them are Covid-related, and about 95% of those aren't vaccinated, ≅70%.) This implies that...

Same in Canada, although our health care is managed at the province level (with some money flowing between federal and provincial). Nobody injuring themselves in Canada would beg good samaritains not to call an ambulance because of the cost. Nor are Canadians begging each other for basic care...

Like @bone I like to set bracket orders (OCO stop-loss and limit target) to avoid micro-managing. If stop-loss and profit targets look much too tight after the fact, then to me it just means that the trade was planned on too short a timeframe. That said, if we're talking about the...

Just FYI it's from 2012. It's a modern book. ;)

Who could possibly handle delivery besides refineries?

That's right. I was with Interactive Brokers and my account was subject to the PDT rule back when they were a USA firm. When they branched off Interactive Brokers Canada, that rule went away because we have no equivalent rule up here.

Not at all my point. Just to be clear, my point is that regardless of the author, this material stands on its own as one of many sources which were beneficial to me in broadening and ultimately greatly simplifying my way of looking at price movement. Even if it had been anonymous, I would've...

I understand your motivation, but I don't wish to bother Cynthia further on this topic as I was never a member of Market Geometry anyway. About the troubling page 14 posts, I wouldn't discount the possibility that an assistant (quite possibly Shane) was @OnlyTheTruth616. It is common for...

On this particular point, you have to be careful. His specific claim is that he "has been lecturing" at Stanford and MIT and I have found no quotes hinting at more than that. Technically speaking, a single appearance qualifies. Of course if he talked about "his MIT students", he'd be...