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    Why are bearish markets bad if there are future contracts?

    why can’t a trader specialize in one: up or down?
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    Creating synthetic option prices for 'backtest'

    I don’t think you can model weeklies well using a monthly surface. You will miss all the event vol from macro economic data which will massively skew your data.
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    Creating synthetic option prices for 'backtest'

    Your froward will cause you to be off by 5percent annualized. Divs are an issue too. you are prob better off running everything in vol space and interpolating off the surface.
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    Tired of losing money every trading day

    great. You found one strategy that has zero expected value. I gave you one that will lose money all day long and one that will eventually lose all your money. trade the opposite side of both and see how it goes.
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    Tired of losing money every trading day

    Here’s two strategies buy on the offer. Sell on the bid. Over and over again. Sell atm puts in massive size (keep scaling if you are earning) so that eventually you get stopped out on a big sell off. Gamblers ruin guarantees you will lose everything eventually. There’s no opposite to it.
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    the myth of averaging down for traders

    what the hell does that mean?
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    What will happen if BOIL drops to zero

    Someone said the price action in BOIL is indicating the temperature will get colder soon.
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    How much does external stress reduce discretionary trading profits?

    What’s your loss relative to capital at risk: > -100percent.
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    the myth of averaging down for traders

    this is elitetrader. You aren’t supposed to read the nuanced argument. :).
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    Poll: Trump would hammer Biden or Harris in 2024

    We know. Repugs are pushing hard for similar Reforms. American democracy is over. You all elected the first fascist president. Question is: do we become taliban or some kind of socialist state. Remember the gubernatorial candidate who vowed that a democrat would never win another election in...
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    Unexpected National Holiday Question

    not me, but they will probably let you.
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    Poll: Trump would hammer Biden or Harris in 2024

    yeah. Dems were asleep while cons had a plan on the courts. Dems aren’t as long term strategic as cons (like using governorships to gerrymander)
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    the myth of averaging down for traders

    You are harping on the wrong part. Carrying a position through a loss is a part of many investment theses for investment styles that have proven to be successful. Those styles have been so successful that the most successful firms utilize them. These aren’t the only style that can work, but...
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    Is there such thing as buying too many contracts?

    it depends. if you are long options you can create a gamma squeeze (good for you: see GME) or you can cause your own pin (bad). If you are short you can force a pin (good for you) or you can cause your own gamma squeeze (bad). It all depends on the counterparties behavior. No matter what...
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    Poll: Trump would hammer Biden or Harris in 2024

    trump won one election and led the repugs to total domination. The repugs squandered it except in the justices. And then trump has lost the repugs three elections in a row. The cons have given up the middle ground. Desantis is a smart and capable guy but he will have to explain his whackjob...
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    Small Percentage Gains from Large Account Strategies?

    ignore mark brown.
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    Small Percentage Gains from Large Account Strategies?

    like 12 listed contracts
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    Unexpected National Holiday Question

    If I recall, options just exercise based on last official close. Long holders basically lose their theta. the dawn has some facts wrong. Trump didn’t shut the stock exchange down. It’s NYSE policy to shut the market down in honor of a dead president. When trump dies I will use that day to go...
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