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How is the derivative markets for rugs these days? Outside of the SPX pit, is anything traded in the pit that’s not a cross?

I’ll sell you 5 sq ft of hardwood for 10 sq feet of linoleum.

These threads pop up every once in a while. Here is a good data analysis project (since we are all elite traders who make our livings analyzing data). There are two other sets of data on this site: several threads highlighting the best/most insightful posters and the politics forum. Cross...

Venture capitalists are wary of entrepreneurs who make collages (even if they graduated from Stanford) At least these people can get a job at Michael’s.

Often Good Friday falls on the April expiration and they treat Thursday as the close. If it was closed for a sept 11th event, my guess is that they would let the options expire and there would be a ton of contrary intents.

The day of the London tube bombings? I got called into he office early because we were short ftse skew. By the time I got in the market was up on the day.

I would never call isrg a safe stock. They have one machine and if I recall a successful quarter is selling like 20 of them.

Every broker has problems, but why would anyone suffer everything that happens at IB? Are they really that good the other 99% of the time?

That makes sense.

You monitor your in account every hour, even when your principle markets are closed?

I'm now pretty convinced that this tariff stuff is just to distract from the gun reform debate where he was getting pulled apart by his common sense and his NRA masters.

He said if you do not “owe” the underlying. He is saying that you should not short options unless you are short stock. So if you are short stock it’s okay to short calls and puts.

Don't even begin to talk about the global supply chain to feed those assembly plants you mentioned. It's insane. Leather manufactured in Canada, stitched in China, assembled to a seat in Mexico, and then sent to South Carolina to be installed.

His strategy of negotiating is well known. It works when you don’t deal with the same counterparts over and over again because you can only burn someone once.

No. It’s not simple. But some people do better and some do worse economically.

America is the second largest exporter in the world after China. Many of those products are industrial goods that can be manufactured by other countries (like airplanes). America is the largest importer in the world. America imports goods so that the middle class can have the highest standard...

So did trump until a few weeks ago

That’s how hedge funds work and why successful PMs are paid so well. If you don’t like it work somewhere else where people are nicer and your pay will be less. Having worked in both I personally prefer the latter environment.

My father has met him. He’s a jerk in real life. He might have done it intentionally thinking that he owns San fransico.

A bunch of racist rednecks in Appalachia.