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geez... i have alot of books i like... Von Mises, A treatise on Human Action , or anything by him Murry Rothbard "what has Goverment done to our money", "America's Great Depression" or anything by him Anything Austrian Economics.. Bastiat, Hayek, Carl Menger Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe...

Plus remember optionality is a big advantage of buying puts... Your pnl and margin req doesn't swing out of bounds like futures can... Like you can't get stopped out

Nothing...

Where theory doesn't meet practice!!

That is basic calculus nothing crazy.

i just have always thought that if you had the talent to leg really well you wouldn't need to spread at all....

This is how I figured it was... I thought in worry maybe a market maker or there was a way to jump que by hft or something.. As I leave lmt orders out for weeks sometimes

So In some sense leaving a bid for a spread out can order you in a que such that when the price gets around your price your more likely to get filled

Wait how can you assume that isn't a hedge for a huge short... Nonsense

Options you can't get stopped out on..

My girlfriend is a bartista .. I get a elbow(lb) a week ... So in a sense by association I'm long starbux

I would think to invest in selling shovels to the gold miners... Ie big hydro supply manufacturing ... I think in the US there will be fed law before Florida and retail is gonna be home farming like crazy

I like medium blonde roast myself... Coffee is my crack.. are you actually long coffee? because as a consumer we are naturally short

No... With a call fly you put a deeper itm on.. As oppose to an iron in which your in an otm put

Otm options are typically more liquid.... Buying the strangle comes at a large cost so I might think to go extremely otm just to reduce margin req otherwise you might just short the straddle only

"Let there be no mistake: If our economy is to remain dynamic, we must never slip into the temptation of imagining that in the long run, controls can substitute for a free economy or permit us to escape the need for discipline in fiscal and monetary policy. We must not let controls become a...

i'm familar with them as well.. I've never traded or followed any of the major intercommodity spreads crack spark crushes etc.

I would believe the Fed more speculates then anything.. I think i would worry more about how much control they actually have in the longer run.. All i read is very Austrian in nature so I tend to follow the idea that intervention leads to more intervention.. Maybe within the context of FED...

Agreed... No options on CL calendars then no deriving any outright long vol on the spread as it goes directionally both ways ireelative of vol... Just was thinking out loud...

if you can't buy spread options , then it's really tough to be long the volatility of those spreads, as the spread can go negative and positive in volatile events.. i think this is essentially what im getting at