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especially when your the single largest short gamma holder in the world in a nascent product class.

the greatest sin in trading is being right and not earning on it. That’s selling puts on a stock you think will go up.

They own RSX, which is trading. RSX owns adrs and gdrs in London of Russian stocks. These all trade but as the local shares don’t trade, no one knows what they should be trading at.

300MM revenue and 8Bn market cap. in comparison: sbux does 30Bn revenue and 100Bn market cap. Both do about the same in gross profit.

i don't agree with this logic. If you want to own a stock, it should only be because you think it will go up. Acquiring through selling puts means you will acquire the stock if you are wrong but miss out on the rally that you expected.

implied volatility is the present value of future realized volatility. Where a stock trades at expiry vs where it began is realized volatility on a different timeframe. thus all options trading is volatility trading with other risks (primarily delta) thrown in.

Yes you do. The current volatility tells you what price you pay. And the ending stock price is a function of the realized volatility (scaled on a different time frame)

so then maybe they become a tracking stock that one day they will start to be backed up underlying shares? in any case, my broker won't let me trade russian adrs or rsx.

:D

banks can't hedge.

you cant be right with options if you aren't right on the volatility.

that gets dangerous. but do they currently have holdings. like do they kind of become a closed end fund now? i'm also thinking of buying a small position as a call option.

i know kmgilroy isn't. i can't speak for the other guy.

different viewers. Bloomberg caters to corporate executives and professional investors while CNBC caters to retail investors. CNBC tries to get big names (like George soros) while Bloomberg will get the Soros Fund European fx analyst to discuss the current situation.

for the longest time I thought the movie was named after the shoes.

pakistan has never actually been an ally of the US (just like Israel isn’t).

Would you take a trade where you can make 5 to lose 1 with 49:51 odds?

sent Putin a Ukraine house warming present.

I thought the move was pretty smart. He played the information hand really well. Telling the world he knew what the Russians would do put them in a tough spot. If they invaded then Biden understood them them. If they didn’t invade (the way a child defies an adult for the sake of defying the...

sell Molotov cocktails.