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Only if a broker pays for it!

OP did a buy write. A bunch of people in typical elite trader fashion shat all over his trade. He, in typical elite trader fashion acted like a know it all douche. I told someone that buywrites are not equivalent to shorting puts when dealing with American options.

Prop trading got me closer to my goal of either 1. Starting my own fund or 2. Being a truly independent trader. i eventually went to #2 but realized it's not actually that great of a life for a guy in his mid thirties.

Thanks for the compliment. I was a market maker for several years. In most scenarios they are equivalent. But they aren't strictly so - and that is where trading opportunities may lie (unlike in index options which are European and continuous dividend assumptions basically hold) .

The ability to do that is part of being a good trader.

What's the real issue?

I have a bunch of steak knives from bobby vans and interestingly I was using one yesterday to cut strawberries for my daughter. When I was a young first year analyst a broker bought our desk lunch and bobby vans sent real steak knives (made of wood and metal). People were going to throw them...

The put trades at a premium to the call to account for the dividend expectation and both the call and the put will be subject to taxable events. But you knew that right....

It's all good as long as a wall is built (even if Mexico doesn't pay for it).

No difference in expectation. The difference is in path dependency. If the OPs plan hits where he captures the dividend AND gets called away he will do better. If instead he gets called away before the dividend he does worse. Looking at the bid prices: he can make 1.95 in the put vs making .85...

I didn't say more. I said different.

That's the judgement that is required to be a good trader.

Unlike European options and non-dividend paying underlyings, a short put and buywrite with a dividend paying stock and an American option are not strictly equivalent. You can construct scenarios where one earns more than the other.

Isn't this the exact argument Trump is using to defend discrimination against Muslims? Remember skittles?

It's unlikely you will earn both the dividend and the capital appreciation through the maturity.

I would argue higher property taxes would result in higher property prices. The town in NJ I went to HS in had some of the highest property taxes in the state. It also had some of the highest (and most stable) real estate prices. All those taxes went to town services that people found desirable...

And a reduction in investment banking headcount and fewer hedgefunds taking in big fees.

Give it 10,000 hours of screen time. Then it will start making money.

And there are stories of real name trolls driving off anonymous contributors on this site.

You can create a foundation on reasonable amounts of money (as little as a million dollars). Vanguard will help you set it up. I agree with your principles. I was only making this statement that while I wouldn't consider Soros to be tax evading, the IKEA Guy clearly is.