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Everyone has their ups and downs.. I'll be happy to hia financial down year

Most of those are sitting short vol all the time...bad idea.. try back testing over a certain vol number shorting vol with IC you can't just sit short vol all the time.. most of those guys recommend rolling out the calendar and farther out strikes as vol increases.. which eventually leads to a...

Most traders I have ever met have blown out at least one account... It's part of the deal... It's dark and tough but not the end of the world... It taught me a lot and lead me down the road to real risk management

Touche... But anyone with half a brain knows there consequences to creating money out of thin air

These speculations are pointless.....we were due for a correction. Be happy if we don't end up in a depression as a result of decades of gov intervention....

We have been saying this for years....the fed is a scheme to redistribute value.... This sell off is the market having it's say...correcting inflated assets...

You sound pretty emotionally involved...

i kind of disagree... lots of selling in a fairly orderly fashion, but we will see ... lots of leverage in vol flushed out in jan/feb of this year...

The damage is already done there's nothing the FED can do to reverse all the money infusion..

Inflation sucks..and isn't good period

Talking head.... Stupidly associating Market direction with some news they believe is correlated

Is that a joke... obviously central banks....they print and we get diluted ... How can you possibly believe anything else

Roman wasn't built over night.. sounds like your taking too much risk making that kind of money... Take an interest in other things as well...collecting art, fishing, spending your time chasing paper isn't that great... Maybe develop programming skills...learn a few languages , get a degree in...

Taxation is theft.. period....

This makes sense to me.... Thanks...

Ok chime in...let's hear it.. :)

Another thought is when you buy a strip you're buying one call and buying two putts at the money so first of all the vix is based on the entire series so you're buying a future on future implieds of the entire series... You would have a changing risk with respect to strike risk that wouldn't...

I have absolutely no clue.. my first guess would be to look at the notional value of each contract... Order the multiplier.. but I've never even thought about making a trade like that because I figured the difference is always just going to be the friction

Well skew changes.... I didn't think it was a free lunch....I always think there is a reason.... There's more cost to owning a strip of options as to owning a vix future that would represent some of the difference I'm sure

Why do you think that is occurring ?