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You're right, but feelings and hunches aren't evidence of anything either. If this phrase is all one has to fall back on just to cling to their irrational beliefs, then that's pretty sad.

Yes because you're just throwing a whole bunch of quotes at me as if that is proof enough. FYI, it isn't. Can't you say what you want to say without resorting to copy & paste dialogue??? It just reeks of laziness... I didn't know feelings were evidence of anything. That's something new to...

So the Christian faith is basically one giant after-life insurance policy. What a wonderful excuse to surrender one's own logic and reason.

I think most atheists don't believe in hell because there is nothing to indicate such a place exists.

I am an atheist when it comes to pink unicorns because nobody has ever sensed one (sight, touch, smell, taste, hear), detected one (through scientific means), verifiable communicated with one (which goes back to detection), and not to mention the absurdity of such a notion as the existence of...

You worship the Christian god because you are afraid of the image of hell described in the New Testament (which did not exist in the Old Testament by the way). It is in my opinion one of the most manipulative ideologies to have ever been invented. Nobody can falsify heaven or hell, god or the...

Basically, we should all convert to Christianity or else be sent to the eternal gulag. Sounds like North Korea to me where of course the Dear Leader loves his people. *wink wink*

You can quote mine all you want but that still won't take anything away from the fact that the appearance of "fine-tuning" is not evidence of fine-tuning. You still ignore what quantum mechanics and chaos theory have to say on the matter.

How would you know?

Well, thanks for the heads up guys. I might reduce my exposure to this strategy as a result of what you guys have said here. I'm thinking just 1/3 of my capital would suffice. 1/3 to good old fashioned value investing. 1/3 to this hedged index ETF strategy I came up with based on the VIX.

I do not understand how any scientist, in the face of quantum mechanics alone, could postulate a fine-tuned universe. The quantum level is far from fine-tuned. It's impossible to predict anything with 100% certainty. You call that fine-tuned?? It looks to me like the chaotically random quantum...

Well, if there is a creator god, I hope he shows himself so that we may all believe in it. Otherwise, what I see is a universe indifferent to suffering, good or evil, that is randomly changing, and evolving just as science has observed. Your birth is nothing but random luck that your parents...

Thanks! I'll wear my rabbit's foot for good luck ;)

I have stated I have found a strategy that I personally like to employ. If you or somebody else doesn't, then that's fine. I never claimed to find the holy grail of finance. I always made clear a proper risk management strategy will make or break any trader/investor no matter what strategy they...

What scientific theory did you come across that told you that?

So the jist is...The universe is designed because the cosmological constants appear fine-tuned. Here is what I am saying. The appearance of fine-tuning or design is not evidence of such.. Why? Because proving there was a designer is not falsifiable. It's a theological/philosophical argument...

I wouldn't say anyone is wrong. The thought of uncapped risk is troubling to anyone. It's not a very well known thing to do. Selling far OTM futures options. Most people don't even know what futures options are. The people utilizing such securities are usually institutions, hedge funds...

Thanks for the heads up. I have been pummeled before buying stock options and the pummeling didn't come from being wrong the market. It came from volatility plummeting. The VIX was in the high $20's and fell to the mean ~$20. I lost a quarter my total capital. I stopped right then and there...

Well, it hasn't happened to me yet. We're still building our track record. We'll leave it at that for the next 6 months to a year. I'll surely post a thread if such an event occurs. I'll be on the alert. Practice makes perfect right?

I am certainly not marketing myself. For what would I be marketing? I just went out on a limb to detail what I have been doing. I have nothing to sell here. What would qualify me to say anything about what I'm doing? Isn't this thread about, "What strategies do you guys use?" Do I have to do...