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Dude, your telepathy is working overtime. I was going to respond to you - with a pic of Jack Nicholson and a caption of "here's a man selling a call spread" - but decided not to at the last moment.

I kinda see your point. But then, I kinda don't. :) People are going to do stupid things. And from what I've noticed, trading reaches deep down into their gonads and makes them do stupid things they haven't done since they were pimply teenagers hopped up on/half-crazy from testosterone. Neither...

Any particular reason to pay for the long leg of a spread when you're already long the underlying? Seems like a waste of money. Also, selling at 2-sigma would generate very small premium for - again - something that's already covered. I see the point of the overall strategy, and agree that the...

:fistbump: Much of the deal that I mentioned above was structured around real estate operations.

The mega-wealthy aren't exactly constrained by the usual narrow avenues available to Joe Average. @ironchef - while you're transporting your bullion via your Lear jet to France (which, BTW, is one of the countries that has not signed a reporting agreement with the US) - lean out and wave hello...

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Hehe. Guess what your Mac is actually running under the covers? (It's not precisely Linux, but Apple gave up on their trashfire of an OS and put a pretty skin over a somewhat different UNIX derivative.) Besides, yeah - you can have the real thing if you want it. :)...

Heh. If it was meant to be that kind of a sideways comment, I'd have tossed in a 'Si' for the "dumb as a rock" implication, as well as 'B' for the obvious rhymed equivalent. But nah, I'm not going to waste any further time stomping a cockroach. Walking on by...

Can't claim to have found The Holy Grail, but I can say that public/freely available stuff can often be miles superior to what's included with, say, the TradeStation platform. This doesn't surprise me at all, since I've spent years in the Open Source community, and have grown used to (as well...

I did. You missed it. And no, that is not what I meant by being pleasant. The term "barbell" implies having all the weight at the ends - not in the middle. Your swings and misses keep getting worse, wider, and wilder, so there's not much more that I want to say to you. Ta.

Are we being a bit slow, dozu? You asked for how we get along with China when they don't want to cooperate. For a guy who claims to be as brilliant as you are at interpreting the story behind the story - what with "your boys" and all - you missed a very soft pitch indeed.

Also known as the hedgehog policy. Be civil and pleasant to everyone; work well with others; contribute to the common effort. And stab them in the face with a broken beer bottle if they screw you over. Tends to promote peaceful cooperation, and teach the survivors (as well as instruct future...

You're familiar with the concept of the barbell strategy, yes?

Even the East German judge held up a '10' for the rantiness level on that one. Good shit, dude.

$138.39 TLT 191101P137.5 / C140 / C140.5 $0.82 Jade lizard in TLT $138.60 TLT 191115P138 $1.32 IRA ATM short put; I'm balanced between wanting that premium and wanting to get assigned so I can start on the capital appreciation and selling calls - so I've put it up at ~50 delta. I've decided to...

Tisk, tisk. You guys. Didn't you forget something?

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[laugh] I'm ex US Army MI. So it fits... but only by some sort of retcon magic. But the "BlueWaterSailor" tag is pretty straightforward - I'd say that 20+ years of living aboard, cruising, and sailing the open ocean gives me good title. :)

$30.97 TWTR 200117P30 / P32 $1.00 OK, so I'm catching a falling knife - but I've got to start doing directional plays, and this one is 50/50, capped at $100, on a name that's pretty solid with huge volume, and seems to have mostly bottomed out past the EA. Survivable maybe? :) Yay! Things are...

Too complicated, my man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine "A tisket, a tasket A head in a basket - It cannot reply to The questions you ask it!"