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spoken by a guy named "Angrytrader" :D

agreed. Happiness is a state of mind. It’s your response to your external surroundings. All money offers you is the ability to change your surroundings. a wealthy Russian and a poor Russian: if happiness is eating a Big Mac, the wealthy Russian can fly to Turkey and have a Big Mac. The poor...

shot an 18 on golf?

it doesn’t have to do any of that. people who say money causes unhappiness are really saying “an external locus of control is causing their unhappiness” Does owning a Ferrari, private jet, or a yacht cause unhappiness? Obviously not. Does it cause happiness? Often but definitely not always.

money isn’t the solution to everything but everything is easier to fix with money. Take your first very generic example. Money buys you time to talk to that person. In your second generic example, money can help you make the right lifestyle choices (like not own a house in a polluted...

if you are short a put and trade a risk reversal then you are now just short a call which is not your view. smaller meant in the context of your account.

weeklies are only cheap in premium but Gamma is gamma is theta is theta.

He wants to be short downside gamma without being short downside gamma on a big move.

I agree with you on the trump tax cut. Russian sanctions. But i think i was referring to your post about billionaires being leeches on society. I guess my brain wires got mixed up. I agree with you on electrification.

I don’t counterparty risk is an issue but divs on lent shares are treated differently than divs on owned shares

you can only hedge with other convexity. either in a different asset class, tenor or strike. personally I think that rather than hedging index vol, I would just trade smaller. You will give up edge to buy skew.

battery technology will get better and cheaper and a decentralized power grid will change everything. There are companies that are building batteries out of iron and saltwater than can store the power generated from windmills for cents/megawatt. we might actually fight wars with electric tanks...

part of the issue is that inflation is due to strong savings due to covid. That’s not a Republican or Democrat thing. Are your subscriber numbers up since Covid?

Trump tax cuts were really trickle down economics. You have strange views on the world. You are against sanctions because it will dissuade investment in America but in favor of unstable retroactive tax policies - because that won’t dissuade investment in America.

I think swing trading is easier because if you can whether the gyrations you can be compensated for that. you are more likely to be able to realize price discovery on some real metric rather than trading the waves of others as they jockey for that price discovery along with other motivations...

I personally could never get intraday trading to work. Re: being long in a bull market. This isn’t a game of who completes the hardest obsticle course. It’s a game where, who has the most money at the end wins.

Making a pivot table is easy. It’s not the boogie man everyone makes it out to be. Don’t be intimidated by it. it can get super complicated if you start using hidden joined tables and formulas. But you don’t need to do that if you are okay with creating helper worksheets.

Things are what they are now because of the spending and tax cuts done by Trump 4 years ago. It takes years for the economy to respond to policy shifts. So 2017-2019 were because of 2009-2017 government economic policies. 2021, while under Biden's presidency is the result of massive government...

at some point wealth creation becomes a game of the ego.

long synthetic straddles.