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The opposite actually, because they aren't selling their shares. The view is that they want to ultimately hold the shares but they can use them to make some income. Plus execs are allowed to sell shares, it's usually the biggest part of their comp so monetizing it isn't usually frowned upon...

For starters having a positive inflation target is absurd. They should, at the highest, have a target of zero inflation.

But Orange Man Bad is so appealing and easy to get pissed off about... Seriously though I don't see a resolution to this. Tariffs on China can be resolved with a finite number of pen strokes and phone calls etc. among various Chinese parties. The negotiation is about getting the Chinese...

They do it all the time as long as they aren't in a post-IPO lockup period. So (I have no idea what he actually does, just picking a random example) if Jamie Dimon gets stock options that are exercised, then has shares, he might sell calls covered by the shares.

Could you please give an example of the calendar setup you're talking about here? Not sure if I follow.

Would've voted no! Few people actually trade and even fewer actually trade well and even fewer of those trade options, so yeah don'tfuckingleave!!!

China has more to lose than the US simply because if they are no longer able to sell stuff to the US, there is no good substitute buyer. From the US point of view, if we stop buying their stuff we will have a much easier time finding replacement sellers relative to their ability to find...

He and Munger have the ability, they just have way too much money to invest, he's commented on this numerous times.

Whether locked up or not, the big lockup end date is 9/29 I believe and people will most likely be selling those shares HARD trying to cash out, insiders and early VC investors etc.

This is the kind of stuff I was referencing in a conversation with @sle in another thread a few weeks ago. The banks are tight on liquidity due to the post crisis rules. I forget off hand what they were calling it but last week there was an article on cnbc reporting that some people at the Fed...

Lol I wouldn't be surprised. Driverless tech is already heavily incentivized, I don't think anything can speed it up at this point. Wouldn't surprise me if San Francisco and other very liberal places start doing something like this also, Uber and Lyft already really needed to expand margins...

I totally agree with you. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between the prices of option contracts with the same expiry and different strikes (mostly vertical spreads but just looking at segments of the chain itself rather than a particular vertical spread). I have nothing...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/04/nyc-minimum-pay-wage-uber-lyft-drivers/

BS as in bullsh!t

Those probabilities are complete BS. In fact most, if not all, probability measurements are BS. There is a 100% chance of whatever will happen happening, and a 0% chance of everything else. If I roll a regular, fair six sided die there is a 100% probability that it will land on a particular...

Algos are written by people and contain rules/commands/scenarios/whatever you wanna call it that come from those humans. I can write an algorithm that shorts every time something goes below the 200MA, does that mean the algorithm beats you or the trader who wrote his commands into the algorithm...

Yeah I get if there's nothing for day trades but overnight I'd imagine it's very steep...

But it's one of the most shorted stocks out there right now...no shares available...isn't that the definition of hard to borrow? How is this happening? May I ask which firm you work at?

Am I completely insane or are there usually margin/borrow fees involved in holding a short? Tell me I'm not crazy. Maybe he just said there are no fees because he said they don't have any available to short...I dunno. I just read some articles talking about how high the borrowing rates are...and...

I have an account with TD, I called the trade desk to ask what the fees for shorting LYFT are and the guy told me there are no fees and no margin interest is charged......not sure where to go from here to figure out what the fees are.