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Yes... That's what we have now..

Your question is incoherent

Credit cycles from expansionary monetary policy.. Artificially suppressed interest rates. These play out in bust scenarios... The best is to admit to not being a good forecaster and manage your risk

All this information in your post are things I've picked up over time separately... And through some pain... Pascals binomial expansion is exactly the way risk is hedged with futures...

coercive government is how the market isn't free... The government goes from being small and passive to being large influential and coercive in nature.. but yes in some way the market in the longer run will have a say in the speculations of the government

what we know about free markets??? we dont' live in a free market.. we live in a completely controlled soon to be wildly out of control market.. boom bust cycles exaggerated by fed policy will be how its written down in the longer run.. the Fed controlling interest rates to this degree has...

Raising rates isn't happening in a vacuum.. Everyone else is expanding their money supply to.. Plus yellen slowed the rate of increase.. The market is just reacting to it... The dollar is still considered the safe haven...

Everyone trader is in the market for a different reason... Everyone has a different utility function describing the value associated with their trades... That being said the market can be a loser 99 percent of the time and still provide value to trader.. Hell some people get value from the...

I completely agree... and i thought it was messed up.. this is why i brought the thing up

fed = wall st banks... nothing new.. don't act jaded as if you just learned this and feel burnt.. they have been diluting us from just after the civil war with central bank infationary theift

IB is the devil! haha there margin always has a squeezing intent to it.. flush you out to their favor.. screams of a large bucket shop

this account isn't funded but that doesn't matter... i don't know if its just IB or what.. but this is crazy

dec17/nov17/jan19 at IB has an intial of 5469 in margin req.. just checked...

Ya... I'll check when I get home...back when I put the xzf17 fly on when I started the thread anything past that was exponentially more... I'll check tonight...

Past a certain threshold margin goes through the roof...

Give us an example defining back month

This will only help the dollar...

the position that i first described just for everyone's information did work out.. the x16z16f17 fly this was trading at -.14 now mid is -.04 the the double fly the vxzf.. this was around -.12 at one point for a long time it was -10 now trading at -.01

Central planning doesn't work... Economic communism. Everyone knows if you smooth out vol you get bigger blow ups.. And read Rothbard on the depression.. Your wrong if you think the depression was a completely free market phenomenon... Recent returns aren't indicative of future returns... The...