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Tax burden is the same. Only difference is marked to market (no wash sales) and ability to offset current losses with past gains (but you can do that now with 1256 contracts).

link?

11,000 of 63,000? Citation?

it’s called implied vol.

<insert video of trump mocking a disabled reporter>

thankfully all those tax cuts are trickling down.

You guys are lucky that Russia supports trump. They have the best hackers.

the right will stop at nothing to obtain and hold power.

it depends on what the options are pricing.

your accountants would be able to answer your question far more clearly than the vague way you asked it for you specific situation. At least mine would.

have you never paid taxes before?

that or it’s an elaborate humblbrag.

I bet you are leaving substantial profits on the table (like 20percent of your pnl) trading the options vs the cash.

I would add, all trading is gambling due to uncertain outcomes you cannot affect.

As a descretionary trader myself, that’s my biggest fear.

“Edges” are trading opportunities and they come and go. As flows change, as information changes, trading opportunities change too. There was a time you could earn 30percent trading merger arbitrage. Now you can only earn 3percent. Low interest rates and excess liquidity has killed this Edge.

be careful not to over estimate your ability “to hold on and stay solvent.”

There will be volatility but less than if the election is disputable. It's my belief that the market is negative on Trump's handling of COVID.

Well to make it political, both parties want stimulus and I’m sure anyone who needs it won’t get it. It will go to people who will use it to buy more aapl stock. Just like the first round.

This question should be in trading as its a legitimate question. I don't believe the option gamma story is the driver of the markets. Perhaps its front running stimulus money that will just go into Robinhood accounts. Or perhaps its the fact that the market is pricing in more certainty that...