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To quote Bernard Shaw — 'Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.'

My neighbor has a KIA EV6. He does not seem to complain.

Oh, no, I own both my vehicles outright and I can only expect the price to go up from here because these things are trading at cab

Yeah, just wait and see what I drive :)

GUI development is hard. My backtest browser took me forever to build.

In fairness, good UI does increase productivity. I’ve built myself a backtest browser and it’s super convenient. Don’t have a UI but I can see how it can be useful.

Any SUV is an abomination :) A "performance" SUV is literally a crime against humanity.

There are only two true Lamborghini models - Miura and Countach. Everything else is meh

That's not really how you'd wanna think about it. You have (a) initial purchase price, (b) maintenance costs and (c) energy costs. After that there is some residual value (i.e. purchase price minus depreciation) and that gets you the total cost of ownership. Depreciation includes the fact that...

Is it a vol signal to trade NKY or other vol products?

VNKY has whopping 90 contracts of open interest at 10k JPY (ie 65 dollars) per point. Why would you include it?

The latter - essentially waiting for the authorized participants to push the price in their direction.

I’ve seen it work even recently, but it’s so capacity constrained that you might as well get a job.

Actually, I know a guy who trades smaller ETFs (less liquid) as well ETFs that involve non-traditional assets or have incomplete holdings. It's a bit more statistical and requires a lot of work, but there is definitely money there.

This thread contains a bunch of misconceptions about backtesting and it's role in systematic trading. But I still think it does not belong in the options section, so I refuse to contribute.

What does this have to do with options?

I was just doing it for academic completeness. LOL. To quote an old Soviet comedian, "Let's argue about the taste of oysters with those who actually ate them"

And you can still get fucked :D

In fairness, there are examples of people using better models and making big bucks. One case study would be the guys at BoA who started using UVM for corporate call spreads. But this usually is in non-listed space and mostly driven by ability to manage these risks better

Why would you do that? He's an endless source of amusement