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thats a ratio synthetic covered call.

to southamerica: what you describe is the typical cognitive bias. it seems the problem is that brazil is a resources rich country and thus there are chances the us or any other nuclear super power decides to bully brazil in order to access and control those resources. you deduct this...

the potential merger between these two has been a recurrent topic on magazines and blogs. here is an article in case of interest. http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/38703

trade from lisbon portugal as well.

european cities way down in the list besides quasi- american city of london :). mine barely make it there. i think the article is way biased towards the land of uncle sam. however chicago deserves the top standing.

i am not sure what you're trying to accomplish or what are the requirements but since you mention the three letter word **tax**, i am inclined to comment on the panama foundation alternative. it is quite simple to set up and allows to own any kind of asset such as securities or offshore...

one of the best firms training retail traders. it is much better to spend the money there than throwing it out the window in stupid option trades. but their course is more a marketing pitch on how paramount is to use their worthless services, charts, add on, and sign in for next level...

i wonder how persistent you intend to be. there is no way to come up with those returns in the long run without facing unbearable draw downs. settle for something in between 30-100% a year otherwise you'll get killed sooner or later.

great stuff makloda. thanks. buffett lays down the principles to riches. buy the dips!!! :D

it is not how much you earn but rather you much you learn.

really? i thought it was a bmw.

orctrader by orcsoftware. it is professional product though.

the market always techs us a lesson. some still believe that scalping eminis is viable ops in the long run without any substantial edge. by substantial, i mean something far beyond the ta stuff, something that differentiates you from the rest of crowd, either hi freq quant models, low latency...

that's a synthetic interest trade. the apparent riskless profit comes from collecting the interest from the sold call. however, the stock purchase will have to pay interest as well therefore the transaction net result is zero less comms and slippage. PM allows to trade vol spreads in such a...

paysense i am going to offer you some help for your so called hedge fund. the most widely used directional strategy is the the collar, which is comprised of long stock short call and long put. the collar advantage over the covered call is that limits the downside exposure while maintaining...

this is called efficiency. those algos do a wonderful job assuring that no one flips a contract...but themselves :D reality is algos need one tick to make a profit while locals need three. get over it, in the near future only the big time algos will be able to trade this way, no matter what...

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extrinsic is value is just time value. however, time value is clearly a byproduct of volatility. that is, when volatility increases, extrinsic also increases, because vega manufactures thetas, so to speak. so when interpreting extrinsic value, one must take in consideration its dynamic nature...

lol. it gave so much edge that jj quit trading stocks all together. what 's next? explaining how you make 50 points in the ym every day??? :D just kidding... i know that's a well kept secret.

most german based traders i know use ib to trade the dax, bund, etc. i havent heard anyone saying is too slow, in fact, most say they often lose money because the price action is too fast! :D