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What backtesting have you done to study this?

What specific program/episode are you referring to?

I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Nobody properly discloses whether their trading is profitable. The best way to do that would be to see authenticated brokerage statements and tax returns. Much performance reporting that we do see is bogus, and we often hear people call attention to...

Thanks for the details. You know more about the insurance business than I do, and I have now learned a bit more. I think for most retail option traders, this level of understanding is sufficient: https://tinyurl.com/y55j5ntr.

Do you have any idea what the rest of RGLD's portfolio looks like? Do you know what the allocation is to these trades? Do you know RGLD's total net worth? It may not be your style of trading, ETJ, but you need a lot more information before you call it "crazy." People put on all kinds of...

For all practical purposes, I think all these points (BigShort's included) are moot. Many parallels exist between option contracts and insurance contracts and I don't think there's any problem using familiarity with insurance to better understand options. This is also not to say you can't go...

What is misleading about TT?

How is it different from being an insurance company?

It's synthetically equivalent to a long call. Do you see where the risk is?

I've seen that bar incorrectly report for single options. I've used the stated mid only to get filled and immediately see the bid/ask reflect a different midprice leaving me to think I should have looked at the option chain initially when selecting the price. What I would like is, as part of...

If you want to succeed at trading, then I suggest you be a lot more selective in what you believe than seeing a couple insightful posts and believing someone knows what they're talking about or has made any money doing it. No offense intended to you, destriero.

On TOS, it's really difficult to know what the bid/ask is at the time of fill. Sometimes I have the option chain open when I get filled and I think this is my best chance to see. Even still, though, the prices usually change over the next second or two and I figure my fill was a little bit off.

What was your trading plan when you entered? If you didn't have one or did not have a contingency for the current situation then I would close it, take the loss, and try to be more complete next time.

Backtest a couple years and see what you come up with.

Quantify "very very dangerous." Quantify "lots of insurance."

How accurate do you find them to be, IamaMars?

Detail your calculations.

Did you look at SD?

Is there really a dedicated options section?