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Thanks, Destriero! Seriously appreciate the play-by-play.

I must be hanging out with the right bunch of people, then... :)

Oh, heck yeah! A close friend of Cap'n Slappy's and I used to hang out in a USENET group, and she turned me onto it in the early days. Besides, after working Ren Faire for a couple of years and singing sea chanteys as one of The Bilge Rats in St. Augustine (sung in the key of "ARRRR", of...

Overnight, you may have forgotten what your own early days of learning this stuff were like. Partly, you need to figure out what's important (because there's a flood of info, much of it total bullshit, most of the rest trying to get you to serve someone else's ends, what little is left subject...

[laugh] Ye gods and little fishes. One day, if and when I manage to understand three posts of yours in a row, I'm going to celebrate by getting riotously drunk. For now, I'm going to climb back into the rafters and chew on this for a while, quietly; a number of passes through it plus everything...

Who do you think makes more money in this world: a brilliant scientist who has a world-changing idea but is unable to communicate it, or a huckster with a mile-long line of compelling bullshit with zero actual value behind it? Cheap books and free websites don't spend millions of dollars...

That explains why their P&L sucks. Your typical deity is not options-savvy; all that "thou shalt/shalt not" crap is is obviously way too binary. Might work for day-traders, but for derivatives? Shyeah. I mean, think about it. That "man made in his image" stuff - is that a clue, or what? You...

Muchas gracias, senor. It seems you have kicked major ass again, even after the trade went against you. Bravo! I tried doing the same thing against my short put in ROKU, but... let's just say it was "slightly less skillful" than that (hey, it was the first time I've ever hedged anything.) Based...

A last "hail-mary" pass, from a guy who knows a bit about knowledge acquisition: you can't learn if you start with prejudice; it must be discarded, because it's taking up the exact space that's needed for knowledge. Best of luck.

I guess I don't understand what you've got, then - I thought I did. You started with an NFLX bear fly... did you simply close the put spread and end up with a bear vertical? If so, then that's the hat trick I was waiting for. :) (Or I might be totally misinterpreting what you mean by being...

Oh, agreed - I've seen tourists take idiotic risks with gators and iguanas that made me shudder (and I'm the guy who pulled a 9' shark off a reef in St. Augustine when he got stuck on the outgoing tide, and picked up an osprey with a broken wing - bare-handed - when the poor damn thing washed up...

Dammit, you people have to stop laying out all this irresistible bait. How am I supposed to get any sleep when I have all these yummy books in front of me??? (Thanks, @VixTraderdf; Sinclair's book added to the growing stack.)

Well, crap. I guess it's doing a similar number on you that ROKU is doing on me. :\ Although I wouldn't be surprised to see you pull a hat out of a rabbit and somehow turn it into a win...

@qlai - forgive me if my take on you is wrong, but I don't see you asking this question in good faith. In all of your posts regarding options, you seem to have a belief - more than that, an article of faith - that holds options as a guaranteed losing proposition; this, despite your confessed...

Gators are lazy frickin' pigs. The reservoir next to me (Medard Park) has thousands of the damn things, including a couple of monsters that look like dinosaurs, and pretty much all they ever do is sun themselves and grunt from being overstuffed. Every one of them is bloated to the max... because...

Er, thanks for telling me. I've spent the last 6 years teaching data analytics for the world's largest data science/machine learning companies, so I had no idea. If you think algos predict probabilities that narrow and specific, I have some bridges to sell you.

Yah, shure. How, exactly, is your algo going to predict that I'm going to want ice cream in another 6 minutes and 22 seconds? Or that a truck delivering my favorite brand of it is going to break down, thus creating a temporary shortage of it in my area - which will cause me to jump on my...

Hmm. After the gist of his rhetoric on this topic has been "the Chinese always take and never give; time for us to get some back and not give up anything w/o a return", that doesn't seem likely. If for no reason but his own "face", to whatever degree that applies here. But hey, not much point...

Politics aside, that seems like an opportunity for leverage - not concessions. So no, not all that easy to understand.

One half of an inseparable pair - risk/reward - that is ultimately represented by time and the quality of how I spend it. Trading has brought me a visceral realization of the connection between taking the proper amount of risk to achieve a specific reward; I look forward to learning how to...