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scalabilty is a huge deal especially when your goal is to be absolute return. Risk management is another.

but it’s legal now.

well the supply chain hasn’t pass through yet. are your import costs going up? Are you passing it on or eating it? I assume you are eating it because that would be fair.

this isn’t a Brazilian mine or a Thailandee shrimp boat (which is why your shrimp is so cheap). There’s no exploitation. In 2017 there was significant wage inflation in hourly workers; but that was dictated by market demand. Today it’s dictated by the government money printing machine. If...

for my employees it absolutely was the case. The inflation is in hourly employees not for skilled labor or for white collar wages. One set of wages are being artificially pumped will be paid for from another set. Our standard of livings are higher because of cheap Chinese labor. Your chipotle...

For those making the “living wage argument:” you say the businesses can pass the costs on by raising the prices but that causes inflation. So all of you are okay with higher prices to pass wage increases onto workers who don’t possess the skills to do other jobs. why don’t you just donate your...

I think it’s not living if you don’t have a vintage Ferrari in your garage. Every business should ensure that their employees can afford one.

kmiklas wants to pop out of a cake in marylin Monroe garb.

I agree with the latter statement. but some strategies require diversification or access to products that have high notional.

some strategies require more capital just because the minimum notional sizes trade in certain sizes. running an ES system with 2000 means you taking 200k of risk every time you trade. Possibility of permanent impairment of capital goes up a lot. Another example: delta hedging options is hard...

if the vix puts are cheap, why would you use it to offset another asset? Hedging a hedge is just adding a speculative position.

As a litmus test: how long did it take for the market to price in trump’s terrible speech at the inception of COVID? (The one where you said Trump blew it out of the water) The speech could have gone either way; he could have showed leadership or sow discontent. There was no expectation and it...

when your payout for a stock at 1,2, 3, 4 is 1, 2, 4, 8 respectively.

Can you answer the question posed in the thread with a resounding “yes!” after doing this for 19 years?

they’ve gone up in price A LOT. I bought my wife a classic car for her 40th last fall. It’s already 20percent in the money - and it was not a value buy in the first place.

are you based in Europe?

like what kind of products?

how are you trading otc derivatives in a retail account?

welcome to the dark side.

his name literally means a wave of zen.