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Alright, let me try this again. Yes, your volatility is lower with the short put because you are laying off all the "upside" volatility that you actually WANT to have. If you sold puts on TSLA when it was $30 and locked in a measly $2 while the stock runs to $150, your short put has MUCH less...

He layered them all over the place. He had no idea where he would get filled so he might have had offers out on 20 different strikes and I guess he had some 50 lot positions as well. Sometimes he would just get lifted on everything at once so he couldn't pull his orders fast enough. And the...

And what about the times the stock doubles and you only get a lousy buck? Sorry dude, your math skills are off. You have to calculate the "expected" long term return. This includes all the upside you are giving away almost for free. And since stocks historically have an upward drift, it...

Huh? On a risk adjusted basis the two are not even remotely close. Selling a put for a buck with a capped upside and a 100% downside vs long stock with 100% downside and infinite upside are NOT the same thing. How do you come up with that calculation?

Can I make your life a little less complicated? Instead of exerting all this energy and stress into buying this and selling that and rolling this that and the other, take a look at IRONX. It's a mutual fund that sells cash covered puts in ETF's and indices. It makes about 8% to 10% a year...

I'm not arguing about inflation, just the logic he was using. I liked how he never answered the questions I posed to him. Standard protocol.

Just an fyi here, the dividends are priced into the calls. No need for any call spread.

It's disclosed "before" but to be fair, like a lot of stuff on their site, it's somewhat ambiguous. I agree and I've said this before, it would serve them better to write stuff out as if they were talking to a 5 year old. They often use broad language that can be interpreted many different...

I'm sorry, I've gotta agree with Denner here, so all of a sudden you are no longer a left wing Keynesian? Are you only now acknowledging that that big gov't central planners, your friends on the left, have devalued our currency and created "real" inflation that is much higher then your friends...

Now there's a man that understands data. I've been waiting for someone else other then to me to point this stuff out.

It's all disclosed WRB. They have been doing this since day one and when Michael was actively posting here, he mentioned it several times. BTW, Pekelo is wrong, it's not a 2nd combine you have to pass. In fact, there is no p&l requirement even. I'll try to explain what I believe it is in my...

I still don't understand what your argument is. On the one hand you are saying you agree college is no longer affordable. On the other hand you are saying that tuition increases are tame and are moving lockstep with inflation. I'm sorry, I never did learn gibberish so you could re-phrase...

No, you still are not getting it. You can't compare tuition to ANY inflation rate especially if tuition is actually INCLUDED in that calculation. Why? Because the tuition itself is DISTORTING the data. This is why it's best to compare actual tuition rates with INCOME!!!!!!! How do you...

OK, let me speak more slowly for you. You are studying population data. I'm studying sample data. Know the difference? I don't give a fuck at this point. Just google it. What's happening with healthcare, education and anything else the gov't subsidizes is that they are taking money from...

Disproportional inflation of college costs "Disproportional inflation" refers to inflation in a particular economic sector that is substantially greater than inflation in general costs of living. This kind of inflation for medical costs in recent decades is well known. However, the inflation...

Are you really this retarded in real life or just play that role here on ET? Why don't you graph college tuition rates over personal income over the last 3 decades and get back to me. And let me help you out there with a basis course in statistics analysis. When you analyze data, especially...

I guess Marxists look at data differently then the rest of us. Maybe we're suppose to take the square root somewhere in here. :confused:

God, this is like beating up a retarded kid. I almost feel guilty about what I'm doing to Piezoe here.

From the liberal New York Times to the Liberal LA Times: Consider: In 1980, the average annual cost of undergraduate tuition and fees at the University of California was $776. Today, it's $13,218. That's an 18% increase over last year, which was 14% higher than the previous year, which was...

Sorry Piezoe: Since 1982 a typical family income increased by 147%, more than inflation but significantly behind the huge increase in college costs. College costs have been rising roughly at a rate of 7% per year for decades. Since 1985, the overall consumer price index has risen 115% while...