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His book is good although his doodling for dissecting positions still mystifies me.

Holding BRK. Want 100 deltas of AAPL and don't want to reduce my exposure to BRK.

Caesars/Harrahs has been itching to get into the online space for a decade.

You're talking about a connection comparable to cellular or satellite, right? It works but you're not going to like it other than as a way to manage orders while away from your "real" connection. It's the latency that's annoying.

Go easy on me, this is a rookie question. I'm wanting to use LEAPS to get levered exposure to a stock in an account that can't have margin. Asset A trades at 35% implied vol. Do I buy options of sufficient delta to get my target exposure, or do I lever asset B which has no dividend and...

It's a screaming buy based on valuation. But that doesn't mean it can't get cheaper.

A conversion quoted as one order? Buy a call, sell a put, short stock. I'm assuming its the kind of stuff a pit trader could have made a market on in one transaction.

I'm assuming your firm passed on it?

Isn't this something you can do yourself in Excel? Just find the dollar amount of each position and divide that by the total portfolio worth? Use GoogleDocs or a link to your broker to update the prices in real-time. This one's kind of sloppy. And Google only lets you have 200 quotes or...

Is there any way you can do both?

If I could make a near-certain 10% on my net worth with low-vol I could retire right now.

I'm going to say cash FX is popular due to customizable (small!) position sizing and high leverage compared to CME fx.

Would this IB snapshot approach be appropriate if you wanted to model a sheet of the Russell 1000 by market cap, but didn't need the quotes on each one to stream? I've had trouble building something like this using all the easy tools due to the 100/200 limits. I'm a non-programmer.

I'll bite. Here's a tiny edge that's lasted for decades. Buy 99 shares of a stock involved in a tender offer with a guarantee that all odd lots will be subscribed. Might make $100/deal if you're lucky, but it fits the definition.

OP, at what level of volatility are your returns? Or maybe just tell us your Sharpe.

You're describing long term trend following. It's worked for decades if you have the stomach for the drawdowns and have enough money to do it on a widely diversified pool of assets.

Are you long or short?

Short HYG? Or buy long dated out of the money puts on it? Or are you constrained by account type so you need an inverse ETF? I'm also assuming you're betting on the absolute level of junk bond rates and not the spread over treasuries.

Lot of bruises on my hands from catching falling apples.

I'd set the max DD to something you could sleep with at night and not stop trading the strategy.