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In before : taowave is put on IGNORE.

The world is full of derilict vapid heirs and heiresses.

if the bid or the offer is skewed it will skew your mid.

no. That’s not skew. That’s bid offer and some borrow and divs

Either the leap will have time value that will drag on your earnings (won’t be sufficiently in the money) or the leap won’t provide any margin relief vs owning the stock.

no. The world is different. Computers have taken away so much opportunity. I have seen it in my own 20 year career. algorithm access when I started was only for about 10 firms. Now there are dozens of retail people on here doing it well. I personally saw the block business change. It went...

I’ve met Tony several times. No way he’d be able to earn in today’s options markets.

This isn’t as risky as everyone is saying. Options aren’t risky if you aren’t trading on leverage.

I lost 30k trading a spread by missing a dollar figure a month ago. Spread was 20 at 26 and I was trying to trade at 22 and accidentally type in 21. It happens.

I agree with everything you have said here.

if this were the 1930’s most of the bears would also be standing in the soup line behind him.

what was the ratio and what is it now?

As traders we are all playing chicken. Either we are short the tail, or we are long it. If you think you are flat the tail, you are probably short it.

thats certainly not what you implied in your OP. Glad it’s clarified.

why would a casino ask you to leave if you were only up 15 dollars?

The owner of the company that my dad worked for used to say that diversification is for those who aspire for mediocrity. he died being worth 9 billion dollars (starting with nothing).

Perhaps the speculation is that apple will go on a spending spree.

you mean split adjusted 7 dollars.

trading is hard.

50percent of your account is huge for a short vol strategy especially for an undiversified one.