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Cue "big pianist" joke... :\ My niece, who is a classical pianist, had a pic of his hands on her wall. It looked like a damn octopus. Just alien.

Flashback time! I drove an ice cream truck in Brooklyn for about three weeks while waiting for my hack license to come through. The neighborhood was so bad ("how bad was it?") that I had tiny little kids threatening to shoot me if I didn't give them a cone. Not even kidding. Hah. I'd probably...

It's good geeky fun, for them as likes it. :)

So you're talking about implied volatility. OK. "We traders" don't "perceive" implied volatility, and there's no detection involved; it's a number that's produced by a model. One that is designed to be as accurate as possible, because no one would benefit from it being otherwise. And IV is not...

I've studied microeconomics. That's part of where my view of macroeconomists comes from. :)

Go ahead and feel free to define, say, the character of the Dalai Lama. After all, he's opposed to the current government of his native land... does this mean he's a liar and a cheat? I'd be perfectly happy to give you lots of other examples if you don't like that one.

What's a "perceived IV", and how does it lie? Unless it's some guy with a weird name, I'm not sure how anything without agency - like a number - can perform an act of will such as lying. Totally in the dark here...

While I agree with the rest of what you've written, how you deal with a bureaucracy is not exactly relevant to how you relate to your friends. I seriously doubt that you're in the habit of trusting the IRS, the FBI, and your local cops with your deepest secrets, so this comes across as being...

Er... um... unwarranted assumption. :) I don't have anything in particular against individuals here, but macro-economists in general are not known for producing anything useful. NN Taleb has quite a bit to say about them, and his conclusions are a bit difficult to argue against...

Dude, you're forgetting about your friends. If there's value in that kind of thing for you, you and I need to talk. Nah, system latencies would swallow up any advantage you got from that. The trick would be having the fastest ETL (extract/transform/load) and, to a lesser degree, fastest...

Thanks, @.sigma! I started with a fancy(ish) chart based on a 45-day hold, with nicely-defined daily percentages - but then I realized that almost all of my trades went flying out the door at 10%, which didn't do much for my returns. I've also done pretty well at zeroing in on my preferred...

James Altucher! There's a guy worth hearing; he's been through a whole lot of life lessons, and has a rather interesting take on the whole business of living - and investing. Do be prepared to have your assumptions turned inside out at a rapid pace, though. :) Last I heard, James had closed up...

Automated sentiment analysis. I used to teach a segment on this stuff in my data analytics class. Not particularly complex, although you'd want to have a pretty high confidence level, preferably from multiple feeds, before putting a couple of hundred mil on it. :)

$119.60 WMT 191115P115 -$0.75 $80.00 Taking off this trade in the IRA for ~53% profit $118.89 ROKU 191115P120 -> 191122P120 $1.32 Dropped like a rock-u after earnings, despite beating all numbers. [shrug] So it goes. Rolling out another week, total is now -0.47+1.32=0.85 or 120-0.85=119.15 as...

These aren't "ideas". This is purely theoretical "let's see if this is possible regardless of completely insane risk" fluff, and anybody who actually implements it really does belong in r/wallstreetbets. But here's an "option" for you: offer that deal here. You'll place whatever amount you're...

There's always the option of betting your capital at 3:1 odds on Russian roulette. You'll get your wish if you win, and you'll never know if you lose... Switching from the slightly macabre to only slightly less gruesome - e.g., buying puts and fervently praying for another flash crash - SPY is...

$140.87 ROKU 191115C150 / C145 -$2.00 -$47.00 Closing the call-side vertical of the Jade Lizard, total is now 1.53-2.00=-0.47; now I only have the -put left (~16D). Given that earnings are coming up, and that ROKU behaves like a bee-stung pig - squealing and snorting and kicking up mud - even...

I thought "James Bond" was rather obvious, but I guess not...