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    Supplement retirement income

    except in the real world the The prob is 96perxdnt, or it is 94
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    Vol-trading for beginners

    I bought a put ladder across the entire vix strip.
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    A funny thing happens at $15 per hour...

    I think min wage will reduce employment. A lot of employers can’t pass the cost on. And those that can will mean that consumers will pay more. Further it will hurt the work ethic. I just disagree with Ken’s comments.
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    A funny thing happens at $15 per hour...

    actually meritocracy goes out the window. Wage inflation fucks those who are talented but earning 20/hour as immediately the lazy are earning as much as them and there is little ability for a company to pay the good workers. Remember that labor is pretty inelastic once the demand is set at this...
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    A funny thing happens at $15 per hour...

    someone needs to teach you basic math. if you need 10 people to run a restaurant, maybe you get by with 9. You can’t run your business with 5 regardless of the wages. You don’t think a business that hired 10 people at 7.5 would hire only 5 at 7.5 if they could? I am against the minimum wage...
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    What's the least risky options writing strategy?

    i liquidated everything to put this trade on. I will make over 600000 per contract. i’za gonna be rich!
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    What's the least risky options writing strategy?

    saltynuts graduated with 4.0 in finance. There are only a few people who understand IRR better than him. He obviously has found a way with that giant brain of his.
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    GME short recall question

    buy them. And yes except you won’t get to control the buy to cover order. So expect a real shitty fill.
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    Is paying an employee with real estate a legal loophole to avoid income tax?

    the employee has to declare it as income. A real life example is a company car or perks like a country club membership. Or becoming a partner in a law firm.
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    EV calculation for option spread?

    i had written one like 15 years ago. I would write my own if i were you, as the input parameters are what's critical and there isn't a perfectly right answer for that. Your edge will come from those parameters.
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    EV calculation for option spread?

    Monte Carlo. Or generate a distribution of ending stock prices and then apply that.
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    How to Buy Low and Sell High in Today Market Using Options Wheel Strategy

    that’s not true either. And a very simple example can prove it.
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    How to Buy Low and Sell High in Today Market Using Options Wheel Strategy

    Jsop is a moron but you have the dumbest post in this thread. Selling a put is not always superior to buying stock. If you don't get something this basic I don't know what else to say, you just refuse to reason or are incapable of basic mathematical thought.
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    Everything is bigger in Texas! $17,000 electric bill.

    especially grandma Millie.
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    Incorrect 1099 or this is only way IB will do it

    A cpa firm did what sammyj did and that was without the trader election. This was in 2009.
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    Ted Cruz wants to be a populist. But he can’t get it right.

    i dunno. Some of the economic projections that came out of the Trump tax cuts had some interesting math
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    Matching Orders

    they match whatever the matching engines at the exchange they are sent do decides. typically, two market orders will trade with hft at different prices - especially in the pfof where orders can be held for a particular amount of time.
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    Who buys options?

    Respect the long vol or you will blow up in a most spectacular fashion. I’m a short vol biased trader but invariably get into trouble is when I stop respecting why someone would own gamma.
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    Ted Cruz wants to be a populist. But he can’t get it right.

    I corrected your post for you. conservatives have no problem being nasty.
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    IB, Robinhood, and Schwab...

    lazard offered this - at least used to for 25mm
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