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Makes sense that the market players would trade until a low VIX play has even odds of being profitable. Forgot that the VIX futures could easily deviate from the index.

However VIX is calculated, the lowest it gets is the 10-12 range. Why shouldn't you just buy a futures contract at this point and hold on when it eventually rises? Is it because of Margin interest?

So, what about Forex speaks to your system or preferences better?

Personally, I'd prefer a higher win rate in exchange for smaller rewards and higher commissions, as that is a quicker indicator to me that something strategically isn't working, and there are more consistent opportunities. Low probability plays sometimes end up working out, but it's harder to...

You can do really complex things with option combos. Also you can completely tailor your timeline. Notional costs less. No margin needed to be long. Now look at futures options...

Instruments generally refer to what you are trading.

Ask yourself why none of the biggest brokers deal with binary options and why binary firms consistently make the news for fraud and international shutdowns.

How does this subsidize bad behavior? The black market means costs of goods like heroin are higher. Pharmaceutical abuse is a problem that needs to be curbed. Legal marijuana should hopefully do that.

I think we all forget that the government is supposed to be an extension of ourselves. I'd support a tax or regulation on bad choices, to prevent stupid people from making worse choices, and getting into situations that begin to impact MY quality of life. For example, heroin is regulated...

AMZN's future includes VR fitted clothes and tailoring. My speculation.

Ratio spreads. If it goes opposite, your loss is limited or even a credit. Only downside is neutral action.

This becomes inordinately harder with globalization and the internet. They can and probably do try to clamp down at home, but if the company just moves somewhere else and can still tempt its citizens? It's an interesting and not simple conundrum of modern times. They want their dumb citizens...

Of course, the choices one makes are very system specific. What manual input do you have nowadays? Just optimizing?

How would you define the purpose and spirit of proper and appropriate regulation?

I take it you are a libertarian, and don't believe in prohibition of any kind?

For some ES is the goto, for some it's price-action is not volatile enough. Some people prefer ag futures, or crude. Some pick specific equities or just do anything that passes their filter. Do you have a preferred instrument and what qualities make you prefer it? I mainly watch ES as I am...

What is the logic behind this technical mumbo jumbo???

My belief is that, unless you operate on HFT timeframes, you shouldn't care about HFTs at all. Worrying about them is sheer paranoia in these contexts. "They'll run my stops!" Who can truly be blamed for running your stops? You really think they're going to put that much risk on the line...

I tried addressing the same idea in another thread: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/how-does-open-interest-suggest-strong-resistant-support-zones.303438/ Been inconclusive for me so far.

You're not missing anything based on their example. They made up some numbers just to get the idea across. More realistically, costless collars are very limiting strategies meant to preserve against catastrophic failure but at the expense of any growth. The realistic values make it an...