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He is probably talking about platykurtic. In other words, the tendency of a distribution to have fat tails. He looks for extreme events to occur more often than a distribution would suggest.

Let's hope so. I am short NEM Mar 35 Calls from yesterday.

This sounds like a bomb droppin' on Beaver Cleaverville...

I see all of the QQQ Jan 05 45 Puts that traded across each exchange. Can you get the T/S for them all? It looked like around 200K on the CBOE, 100K at Philly, and 25K at the AMEX. I did not see any (if I remember correctly) of the 55s on my quote provider. The OI on the 45s was upwards of...

Amen.

Or, perhaps in this case, they are willing to poke their heads into the tent to see the freak show. However, they could care less about voting on whether or not it stays in town.

That is what I meant when I said "geez...".

Is there an echo in here?

That is what happens when the clowns are in charge of the circus.

I would think on the floor you pay for order flow, versus getting paid for it (as the brokerage houses do).

No, it is people buying.

I believe that is a reversal. You will have a haircut on your position though.

I suppose you did not pick up on his thinly veiled sarcasm.

keep working it man...

Are those bid prices in ticks?

Yeah, but that might not be enough to "double their money". I suppose that depends on how tight the broker is with credit balance requirements. How about selling ATM LEAPS Puts? 1. Start to lose if the stock declines, but will still provide a profit to a certain point (maybe even to 30%...

Short Put Butterfly for Credit. Buy Calls with the Credit received from the Butterfly. These trades do not satisfy all the criteria. However, they are two trades.

geez...

I used to give my girlfriend pearl necklaces. Do those count as gifts?

You are more right than you know.