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Neither mid nor last is good for making decisions.

what does this mean?

The quotes aren't indicative of the actual market. They exist because option published quotes are often relatively thin.

The risk of actually trading. The fact that I would have to do this constantly intraday creating more work than studying each position as it goes out of whack.

Occasionally I would have an option that would be marked on the bid or the ask for days because there would be no trade on that line but that only created an artifact pnl the first day and after that day to day marks would be in line. Now my pnl is swining by 70bps intraday just on these .2-4.00...

etrade users: You may or may not be aware but Etrade has changed the way they mark options. They used to use the following algorithm: If last trade is between bid/ask then mark=last trade Elseif last trade < bid then mark=bid Else Mark=ask Now they are just using mid price. The problem is...

You don't spend 250k on a 2 seater car and worry about a cheaper alternative. You buy it because you want to buy it.

As I pointed out earlier. They are screwing your employees by making them pay earlier, but eliminating the equivalent tax upon death. So the obvious solution is that your employees should kill themselves the year that their options vest.

On this site, typically no news means the guy blew up.

I would assume a convertible debtenture would be taxable as well. To Sig's point, the whole point of working at a startup (read: a new business venture that is creating innovation and employment) is for the equity. Often you have to give up cash compensation (as the only currency these companies...

think about it practically. You work for a startup and have a million dollars of newly vested stock. You make 100k in salary. What mechanism do you have to liquidate 25percent of your non-tradable pre-iPo stock to pay your tax bill.

in a private company you can't always sell your options or even stock grants. Vesting in this case only means that if you leave, you still own it. What's interesting is that they are adding this tax but working to drastically reduce death taxes on illiquid assets you bequeath your children.

Do people like this tax plan? I thought it was universally unpopular.

Another rhetorical question deserves a snarky answer: Poor people who are focused on keeping the brown people out while the republicans give rich people nice tax cuts.

Because of the city of Hartford. Outside of Hartford proper it changes real fast. But let's say you are right and the town Is liberal. Doesn't that make this whole story worse? A few alt righters, emboldened by intolerance expressed by the president are infecting more communities through the...

Two responses: One, this part of CT is actually trump country. Two, this is despicable behavior that has become more acceptable because of the behavior of the president.

I know that was a rhetorical question so here's my snarky answer: To help the googles and the goldmans compete for talent. There, you pay taxes when your stock vests.

I think it was Chris rock who said that buying life insurance makes no sense. You are betting with the insurance company on when you will die and you hope they lose.

The likelihood the Trump led boycott will impact the NFL next year. This year, tickets are already sold. This isn't about the flag. It's about people who are wiling to do whatever Trump asks them to do, blindly. Anyone whose boycotting the NFL this year, and didn't boycott the NFL last year has...

I took OR and financial engineering classes to boost my gpa. The end joke was on us because it was easier to get into Wall Street from an OR major than from the real engineering majors. So in the end, who was the smart one?