yeah I would say with the vix at these highs its p much a guaranteed moneymaking bet
even if you're directionally wrong the vix will crash big league
..right?
I mean hot stocks that are mentioned a lot on retail trading forums like ET and r/wallstreetbets especially. Stocks like MU, SUNEQ, AMD, and RAD. historically how profitably would it be if you had bought meme shares and held for 10 years?
why would you want to short vol instead of just buying a 3x leveraged etn like tqqq or doing it yourself with futures?
it's almost the same returns (this year it outperformed) without the ridiculous drawdowns
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yeah they're ok but iirc all cfd brokers are bucket shops
nadex spreads are very similar but it's only up to weekly expiration
$1/tick and fully unleveraged so no margin calls
I was reading a PDF by Larry Williams and he said that two of his students (a couple) got their house taken by their futures brokerage to pay the debt.
they often operate on thin profit margins so they will be very aggressive
I think that only applies to intraday losses. So an AH loss plus an intraday loss would not result in termination. We are really close though. XIV looks like it's going to get terminated
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