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    Nassim 'Black Swan' Taleb Blasts Biden's Student-Loan Bailout

    if conservatives actually went to college, maybe things would be different.
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    box spreads versus exchange traded financing

    the box is really a bet on interest rates using a zero coupon bond. it works this way because both counter parties are almost AAA (your broker backing your position with the OCC and the OCC itself). The price is dictated by the largest players who can fund at the lowest rates. Your margin...
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    Nassim 'Black Swan' Taleb Blasts Biden's Student-Loan Bailout

    that’s a very strong statement, isn’t it?
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    Why Americans haven't been convinced on cryptocurrency

    16% of American's have traded or used a crypto to buy something? That's huge even if most of it is people opening a coinbase account to trade $100.
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    Expiration date...Option closes ATM. Will it be called away??

    You said something different earlier: You said that the exchanges handle the exercise and not the OCC. I said the OCC handles the exercise once it gets instructions from the broker. Then you said that you were referring to the CME and not the OCC. Then I said the CME does futures and we are...
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    Expiration date...Option closes ATM. Will it be called away??

    The conversation is about equity options. Not options on futures. it’s pretty clear what the conversation was about. You are trying to explain away your wrong answer.
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    Drawing the volatility skew

    Two and three don’t represent skew (at least not obviously
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    Expiration date...Option closes ATM. Will it be called away??

    cme does futures. I couldn’t find anything about the cme submitting to the occ. they have their own clearing mechanism. we are talking about equity options.
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    Expiration date...Option closes ATM. Will it be called away??

    I don’t think the exchange has anything to do with exercising or assignments. All instructions are passed to and managed by the OCC. the occ determines which member firm holding a short position will be assigned and then the member firm can decide which account will take the assignment. So you...
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    Junk debt during a period of rising rates

    I dunno. But with fsk, you are paying 80 cents on their mark.
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    Possible Election Fraud in Progress

    “Election irregularities” is Republican dog whistle “election fraud because my candidate didn’t win”
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    Junk debt during a period of rising rates

    A slowdown could increase defaults. I don’t know about the other two, but FSK trades as a 20percent discount to its nav.
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    Possible Election Fraud in Progress

    At what point do you concede that there was no fraud. or do you keep defining it such that it can never be proven? Because that becomes the end of democracy.
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    Alternative Minimum Tax

    that is very true. but has nothing to do with Ukraine or the amt.
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    AMC/APE Spread Trade

    Plus who knows how the “Apes” move one side without the other with their coordinated gamma squeezes. At one point the Tlry merger arb spread was like 600percent.
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    Trump announces new social media network called 'TRUTH Social'

    there’s another business trump earns on: political donations from his dumb base.
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    Trump announces new social media network called 'TRUTH Social'

    The only thing that earns is when he leases or sells properties to Russian oligarchs….
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    Alternative Minimum Tax

    Well we are dependent on China because we want cheap stuff. So we are where we are. What’s the alternative given our situation. 11bn is a tiny cost compared to the alternative.
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    The Hidden Costs of No-Fee Trading

    thank you for the explanation.
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    The Hidden Costs of No-Fee Trading

    they don’t do pfof. How were you able to study the execution.
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