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Those damn math ideologues, insisting that addition work the same way every time! Operating with the polemic against those who insist that somehow 1-1 does not equal 0 but can provide no concrete example of when that would be true. (that word polemic doesn't mean exactly what you think it means...

Gotta be careful, Revenue Ruling 2008-5 can bite you in the ass with that last one. Anyway, I thought it was the meek that inherit the earth. Then the assertive will just take it back again? Wrong book isn't it?

You're ignoring my very specific point. I can replicate your results exactly by simply buying at A, selling at B, buying again at C, and selling at D. There is absolutely no benefit to your method, no way that I don't end up at exactly the same point as you responding at the exact same time to...

Or you would achieve exactly the same thing if you sold your position at B! And you would achieve exactly the same thing if you reacquired your position at C! :banghead: There's no "it can be argued" here. You aren't "essentially" flat, you are flat! A loss is a loss, if the instrument is...

I would submit that if you can't walk and chew gum at the same time as it relates to something like this then trading might not be a great career fit!

Good point, for really really small 1 particles it may or may not be true, depending on how you look at them.

That's a pretty epic cop-out! All you need to do is provide a single scenario. Like this, just to make it clear how you'd show such a thing. Day 1 Buy 100 units at $X Day 1 Sell short 100 units at $X Day 3 Sell 100 units at $Y, profit/loss of $0 Day 7 Buy 100 units at $Z, Total profit since...

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: Seriously, spell it out for me with an example of such a scenario, including entry and exit prices and quantities. Please, really do the math for me (and you). Right here.

No, actually it is exactly the same as being flat! This is just so fundamentally basic a concept that it's mind blowing that anyone would disagree with it, -1+1=0, always and forever! If you're "long in a higher time frame" and "short on a lower time frame" then that's exactly the same as being...

In the 1980's Japan was going to own the entire United States by the turn of the century. Regular articles about it in the financial and popular press, movies made about it.... We all know how that worked out. If you're the United States you're actually far better off from a realpolitik...

That's how one launders money, especially the two accounts part. You put the dirty money in one account and trade it to the other account as the "losing" side of a bid/ask spread. The other account then shows clean money that was legitimately "earned" from trading. That may not be what you are...

There is a flat out rule against it at U.S. brokerages because its seen as a bucket shop tactic to encourage it in order to double the spread take. I seem to recall so potential issues with big prop shops having left hand not knowing what the right had was doing issues and inadvertently...

Black hearted Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, sod business?...I'm hurt Mr. TNA, hurt deep down after we've known each other so long, coming from such a respected member of the community in your 5th post:(. You've convinced me, and not just me but everyone here! We're all your disciples now, we...

Irony and sarcasm are apparently also slightly above level of troll intellect, apparently.

If you want to live in Monte Carlo. I'm much happier to have enough money to live where I want to live for no other reason than that I want to live there. That's freedom to me and the only point of money in the >$5M range; having to base the choice of something as fundamental as where I live in...

That's a luxury you have and California does not. You probably don't spend big bucks to bury your lines like they have in FL to avoid hurricane outages, that doesn't make the Florida utilities "absurd". Simply because it's a major undertaking for an electric company to take actions to attempt to...

This is a discussion about going long and short at the same time. You can see that in the title, it's near the top of the thread, looks something like: A troll, in case you're unfamiliar with what you are, is someone who throws a random, completely unrelated to the topic, generally political...

Not me, don't do any chats.

Probably a poor example, I was more trying to express that there is a whole additional world of volatility out there with options. There are circumstances mostly around dividends where early exercise is optimal, but you're right, it's usually not.

My experience in the military, at least as a pilot, was hours and hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror. If you want to avoid boredom the military is probably one of the last places you should look! It sounds like you might be really more thinking that you want to do something...