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    Bolsonaro refuses to concede Brazilian presidential election

    There are American's (obviously pro-Trumpers) who are suggesting Bolsonaro use the military to retain power. These are a really dangerous group of people.
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    Who is the Greatest Trader of all time?

    ken griffin is more businessman than Warren buffet. Warren is more private equity investor than trader. Soros is a proper trader
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    Residency issue

    There are phone apps that will do the calculation and hold up in court if the IRS sues you. In practice I think you have to be rich and come from a very blue state for anyone to care. like a guy who is worth 75 million and left Cali for Florida but maintains a residence in Cali.
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    Who to listen to at ET?

    1. I wouldn't pay for a trading coach. 2. Day trading has an extremely fast feedback loop. You will know who the charlitans are. The best traders take bits and pieces of other people's ideas and synthesize them into their own ideas. No one is handed the "Wheel" and no one invents it from scratch.
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    Who to listen to at ET?

    I think looking at someone’s pnl as a metric for their value is a bad idea. You should be looking at their content and determine if what they say makes sense. At the end of the day trading is about taking in a bunch of data points and determining which ones are important and coming to the...
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    Who to listen to at ET?

    as a rule I would look for people who have institutional experience. they typically have learned proper risk management techniques.
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    Who to listen to at ET?

    hahahahaha! Post of the day!
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    Who to listen to at ET?

    the guy has you on ignore but keeps bringing it up.
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    Republicans defund the police

    That was a good thing. A political system with extremes leads to conflict and volatility. Now it's gotten bat shit crazy since America doesn't want people in politics who have made a career of managing the political process. They want crazy's who will say crazy things, do crazy things, and have...
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    Trading Options AAPL against SPX

    a spread doesn't change the fact that AAPL and SPX will diverge in realized vol and in direction quite a bit.
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    Trading Options AAPL against SPX

    On what basis? The fact that you receive premium?
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    Who to listen to at ET?

    the problem is people saying completely incorrect things, being dogmatic about it, and then taking off sense or insulting those who correct them. those people start to say dumber and dumber things because their egos prevent them from admitting they are wrong. There are a lot of good posts on...
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    Who to listen to at ET?

    I would watch her over anyone else mentioned in this thread. I think she was talking about option skew but I’m not sure.
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    Residency issue

    US has worldwide income so Singapore doesn’t work.
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    Trading Options AAPL against SPX

    beta adjust the delta or the notional (stock prices). That’s what I would do. it will be a very noisy trade.
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    Advice to new a trader

    The market makers hacked his account. It's part of their plan to make his short options blow up on gamma and his long options to blow up on theta. This is on his verticalized callspread in TWTR that expires in three months.
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    Advice to new a trader

    I made 100k on Friday on des’s call to get long. unfortunately the market makers asploded the gamma on some twtr options and I lost 99,950 on that.
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    The IV risk with short strangles

    I think you should explain your position with data or a detailed explanation. You either are missing something yourself or you have some interesting way of looking at things. Right now it sounds like you made a strong statement and are trolling (and I know you aren’t a dumbo troll).
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    The IV risk with short strangles

    that doesn’t explain your reasoning at all.
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    The IV risk with short strangles

    I skimmed the article. It’s very conceptual. But if you take his concepts as basis for you arguments then a short strangle is doubly worse because you lose on both tails instead of just one.
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