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I have the idea that you are a spammer.

IB offers a one time password system free for accounts over $100,000. If your account is less than that, I believe you can buy the required hardware for approximately $150.

Where exactly did you learn to write this kind of extraordinary doublespeak? It is remarkable that you were able to maintain an authoritarian prose throughout your lengthy narrative without making even a single coherent statement. Perhaps this can explain some of your popularity among the...

You propose a police state. Never fear, it is already well on its way. Send the Thought Police my kind regards for me.

So you are going to make a cool 300% or more a year on your 20k. Awesome. I'll wait for you to appear in the Trader Monthly top 100.

Vidyamurthy had speculated in his book "Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis", that stocks with correlated returns might be a good place to start looking for residuals that satisfy the conditions for co-integration. He advocates a metric he termed the "distance vector", which is the...

Why do you always break your sentences up this way... It really does not make make you sound very smart. It is almost like you are trying to write lyrics... But somewhere in the middle you lost the poetic spark. It is pretty easy to understand that a diversified pairs strategy is...

Whether or not selling option in this way is viable depends on many factors, including the hedging and risk management strategy of the trader in question. There are many hedge funds and CTAs that trade in this way, all with differing degrees of success or failure. I personally trade in this...

Because managing a hedge fund offers the benefits of leverage without additional risk. Let us make some assumptions about a start-up hedge fund and examine the results. If the average hedge fund start-up has $5,000,000 under management excluding the $100,000 of the manager's capital...

If it is a fact that 90% of "traders" fail, then there should be some empirical evidence of such. Where is the evidence than 90% of "traders" fail?

There is no advantage to selling premium in the Black-Scholes world. The Black-Sholes world does not exist. You might be right, but you would be right for the wrong reason. There is no advantage to hedging a short versus long gamma position. People who insist on equilibrium of long versus...

What two best known S&P premium sellers are you referring to?

I am going to go out on a very long limb here and say that you have no idea what you are talking about. No one will talk about stat arb in detail? Inference and Arbitrage: The Impact of Statistical Arbitrage on Stock Prices Tobias Adrian MIT Testing Market Efficiency using Statistical...

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no edge in pairs trading. There has not been in a very long time. The purveyors of pairs trading books and software, along with the brokerages who charge double commissions, they would all like you to think otherwise. It has nothing to do with having a...

How can something be centered around something else? Anyway, there is a reason you seldom hear about pairs trading, and it is the same reason this thread is long dead. It does not work.

Interactive Brokers.

Are you off your meds or something?

Very many traders have "blown up" with long gamma, short gamma does not equate to bankruptcy. Presumably he is making markets if he is a floor trader. How exactly would you suggest that he keep his positions from "being all over the place" given that he is making markets?

None of the following should be considered advice, it is for the sake of educational discussion. I am not sure how useful my commentary will be given that I know none of the details specific to his situation. If he can afford to carry the trade, and if he sold the vols at a premium to stat...