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The put fly is slightly priced different then the call fly because of the borrowing costs related to short stock? Is that the rate differential your talking about

perfect... thanks for taking the time the only thing is thats alot of commissions to close both spreads down wouldn't you think.

So you have a long position in the stock.. you can very easily sell the synthetic equvalent in options and lock in your gain into a conversion... is there a way to close out a butterfly respectively? if i close a buttefly in the same day i open it.. i will automatically get pattern day...

you guys sure know how to beat a subject to death!

Spread trader... are you trading equity pairs?

If I was seeing some patterns in randomness I'd say that's a bull flag

seems kinda flat at this point? i haven't looked at the spreads that i posted.. i should throw them into my quote window and keep track of them

Credit spreads are no joke a good way to super lever a blow out... your actually way better of ratio back spreading DOTM. Because it is gamma positive and Vega positive... meaning if vol goes way up or if you get a directional pass of your strikes your actually in great shape! I gave up...

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Gosh that seems like it will make for a very small.exit door! How are you trading that? Options?Futures. Etfs?

That's because there are so many outright blow ups it skews the results in favor of the random walker

i tell everyone about my failures.. just to make sure i keep myself in check..

yeah thats very true..

problem is eveyrone knows that its hard to continue those gains as your pot size gets bigger.. people do well on average like 6 or 7 years before they blow up.. at least thats the Random walker take on it..

and you would think that because you do provide market commentary.. :) and yes your right you can't throw a blanket statement and cover everyone... there are outliers but in my opinion its better to take a mentor for what he is.. just a mentor.. there are no gods in trading just...

has anyone used the volatility of one constituents against another in pair trading for any sort of further look into how the pair trades against each other? i'd love to get some feed back on this... heres a good example of it in this article...

HAHA YOU SOUND BITTER.. you should go grudge fuck some strangers and then find your way back to treating girls like humans..

most long term net short premium traders are spread traders... if we are going to start throwing out generalities.. and yes they do blow up.. just like over leveraged naked put traders... cash secured put seller/buy writers are low return less risk traders.. sure its a way to get more for...

the small speculators are trying to catch the last rattle of the market at this point... if you ask me.. i think going by generalities isn't a great strategy.. but if i were to make a vague statement about the spx at this point it would be a great time to trap small speculators..

i like that...