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philosophical question , thnx

SLE, why should anyone trade options or use options to express an opinion with regard to price movement or lack of movement or otherwise ?

where is the skew... sell the straddle ( sell call buy put) and buy the underlying ?

Hello "beginning of a market move after a good market correction, and not during, or at the end of a major market advance." if we knew this "end" or " beginning" information couldnt we trade something else very profitably like ES index which maybe 90 percent here do ? Futures particularly ?

Is Maverick as good or better than Bill Gross, does he have a track record like him is his AUM and performance recorded ?

Overall "investing" is more interesting than trading anyway I hav will this happen ? The only thing remaining is for Maverick to explain his edge. That would help everyone understand what edge truly is by your definition and also understand why your edge is so much more effective than what...

So you have an edge ? here is a excerpt of book review: In conclusion: if you want a book with (not to detailed) descriptions of various academical papers on investing in various asset classes you can give this book a try. If however you want more in depth research on one or two asset classes...

What about OTM spreads although not too deep, maybe .20 delta net spread spreads, with stop on underlying or delta, I.E. delta gets to certain size or underlying reaches a price stop your out of the spreads

what is your view on sellin spreads, not ATM but not way OTM either , possible Iron Condors

thanks Agree with OP, selling the puts isnt best, howsoever selling them on VIX in conjuction with calls on index at this day and age interesting

any chance can share the Yahoo group location / domain ? thanks

SIL wow.... but Gold doing ok, breakdown in equities will slow silver to a halt and gold will have these 4% up moves

Agree, its over prop firms are useless

Thanks, but today why would anyone join prop if you have 25k to trade say options. Options and futures give plenty of leverage, IF you can turn that 25 into 75k and so on, you can have plenty of capital eventually. If anyone is within moments of liquidation at IB or elsewhere and EVEN if the...

Outside of buying power what does a prop shop offer anyone, with 25-50k in options you can get plenty of leverage to scale up eventually if your any good, what the prop firm value these days ?

Thanks for the info...

brutal week, more sideways to down action, need event......

Source ? Thanks

well see

China retail sales missed handily -20 % and they are moving to a "service" economy.....