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At any point interactive brokers can claim your first born as part of a margin call.

If markets were zero sum the stock market wouldn’t consistently rise in value. The bond market notional wouldn’t continue to grow. both these happen because the economy is always expanding (we continue to create value and we continue find new ways to be more productive) and then there’s...

transaction costs aren’t like a rake at the poker table. markets aren’t zero sum because the underlying asset (the economy is generally growing in real terms and there is generally inflation). Trading is just divying up that growth.

Oh, using options data to predict future delta moves. I’ve seen studies on it but I doubt the signals are strong enough on their own. There are guys obviously who have made billions doing that.

no. The corporate stimulus.

Think of it this way: how much edge do you think statistically is in trading vol? Maybe 2-5 cents a share? so how many contracts do you have to trade to earn a billion dollars? How does that compare to volume? Options are zero sum so someone has to lose that billion dollars.

you brought up her being a woman. Since it’s your assertion, I look forward to your evidence normalized for societal inequalities of course.

Shut up with the sexist statements. It just shows your insecurities.

Next he might tell us that Trump beat Hillary.

you should be able to trade well inside bidoffer - probably within 10 cents of mid for a few million of notional.

Buy a put and sell a call simulataneously

trump was right about China but he ended up with nothing meaningful. You voted for a doer who didn’t know how to get things done. Because it was really all about race relations.

I wouldn’t peg this just on liberals - though the last round of free money is on them. trump’s Covid relief gave out like 4 trillion dollars: much of going to the wealthy who didn’t need it. Further if he wasn’t spreading so much confusion about Covid, we probably would have reopened in January...

As the conservatives say, businesses shouldn't get involved in politics. her business was acting.

That wasn't Gaetz's dad, was it?

So you believe that the MAGA hat is equivalent to the nazi armband.

there will always be exceptions in every population. Look at the statistics. The demographics are telling. People think he may be a doer but executive orders aren’t really doing anything and there was plenty of bs publicity shows under trump. How’s that Foxconn plant in Wisconsin coming...

a lot of people voted for trump because they were upset that minorities and immigrants are doing well while they (white Americans living in rural or tertiary cities) were not. That’s why trump railed against blacks, immigrants, and women so much.

conviction is your confidence in your trade, whether that comes from a quantitative signal, looking at squiggley lines, or reading 10k’s. Are you saying you scale up a position just because it is making money?

Adding to a position because your conviction increases as it earns is one thing. Betting bigger because you are “trading with profits” is another. it should be obvious what the difference is.