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I hate to say it but I was reading through other online brokerages agreements concerning IRA options regulations and I found the same dilemma. Namely, several other brokerage firms automatically exercise after the common stock settles more than $0.25 ITM and place the burden upon the customer...

I don't know, but I think you may owe Bert some money.

PT Barnum made a killing off of guys like nzbryant.

I spent about 15 minutes reading thru his site. $5k to $8.3 million in 23 days was all I had to know. Then I hear about this "$10k to join the monastery" crap and it sealed it. All these guys debating whether this thing has any merit have gotta get a clue. It aint legit people...

Any guy using QCharts "real time" charting software must be a fraud...Nothing real time about it:D

Not to digress from the conversation at hand, but when I analyze the Dow components, I couldnt be more bearish longer term. Its clear this dollar strength is squeezing these conglomerates and the price action reflects that. Throw in a flattening yield curve and high probabilities of a...

I agree to an extent. I would just argue that in previous times, there was more transparency and hence there were better market relationships to "key" off of. Nowadays, with the sophistication of managed money and their dependence on certain correlations, etc, etc, alot of those "side bets"...

I completely agree. They want to maintain this exclusivity and reduce the competition, yet it also kills liquidity and like you say, people just say who needs it and walk.

agree with ya risktaker. No natural buying/selling interest except for the few times a quarter when "they" have to re-position. Rest of the time this market is on auto pilot.

and then it rips through those levels in a heartbeat and there go your gains.

I like your style. I also think there are several other asset classes that got the big ole squeeze during that same time sequence.

I'm gonna still opt for the lax lending standards hypothesis. Of course, there are other factors, but I think this one has the most relevance.

There are many others, its just harder to locate them... Class A - Inactive Clearing Members Blue Capital Group LLC Brevan Howard Master Fund Ltd. Citadel Derivatives Group LLC CTC Holdings, L.L.C. DRW Holdings, LLC E*TRADE Futures LLC Gator Trading Partners LLC Getco Holding Company...

And it seems the longer we stay in this range, the more illiquid this market becomes. Its not just that we are in tighter ranges, but the speed with which we can traverse from bottom to top of range and vice versa is mind numbing. Its as if the programs can just flush out entire price points...

As everyone knows, you sir, are the master of that.

that was my point....

It seems to me Crabel has evolved from a performance seeker into the consummate asset gatherer. I'm sure he isnt thrilled to see the Fed raising rates. After all, when risk free rates of return were hovering near zero, his small single digit returns were even attractive. Those days are...

This first trading day of the new quarter stuff always is a bag of tricks. I really dont think its ever much of a coincidence when you see something like this kind of damage in the long end of the curve and gold fall apart the first day. Its just sort of surprising there wasnt more of a...

yeah, its par for the course these days. I've thought long and hard about it recently and I have come to my own conclusion. The big money, I believe, is acting on the idea that the next major trend in the equity markets will be down. As such, the true volume and selling comes into the...

Let me see if I got it right. Sometimes its just the terminology that throws me off. When u say selling put ratio spreads, are you talking about something such as this: +1 GOOG 270p / -2 GOOG 260p for a small net credit? If so, yeah I like those as well to play slightly bullish uptrend...