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what are you rambling on about ? I can easily imagine market making strategies in options getting only a fill at ratio above 10:1, nothing horribly designed about that.

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you really are not too clever, are you ? I said MARKET MAKING

well you don't know what you are talking about: the real money IB makes is not through the small retail traders who need hand-helding, it's through their market making.

if you understood how things were priced you would understand why this would be a really dumb idea. Answers can be found using www.google.com and a little logic ...

and you guys are all supposed to be traders yet can't seem to figure out a simple thing like this ... nobody here seems to know the slightest thing about finance ... and no I'm not going to explain it, try to figure it out yourself where the yield comes from, you might learn something (just a...

Options are not a zero sum game if you look a bit further than just their own market: for example both buyer and seller of an option can win. For example the buyer buys calls because of a directional play, the seller sells calls because of a volatility play, thinks those calls are too high...

no, a mm typically tries to get neutral in his delta always immediately but will adjust his prices (upwards) if he becomes too short in gamma for example. It's not a one step, two step kind (like at the end of the day) of thing, it's a continuous process.

Seems like you know something but not really too much details about what mm do. You are furthermore assuming a lot in your questions without really stating it, for one you are talking about gamma short positions if I read this clearly, otherwise there would be no problems with the situations you...

any further news on ICE ?

name who ? edit: i see, the firm was VanderMoolen, the name of the trader i'd rather leave out of this, no need to post his name on the internet.

you must know my friend and his circumstances better then i do ... NOT, in other words you are just talking ridiculous blabber ... he has no money or will ever make enough money again by cleaning windows and it's obvious you have never been even close to having a hard time in your life you...

yes, he started out on his own with about 50.000 € and made that into 25 million and then lost it all in a few years.

like I told the OP in an answer to a pm: trading is about making money, nothing less, nothing more.

well i had a friend one of the bigger futures-traders in europe: he first started trading for one of the bigger firms then went out on his own. He was a big player, made something like 25 million euro's in basically 2 years a a floor trader. He lost it all when the markets went electronic and...

also I think your way of thinking is typical of someone young ... when you get older you find it's not so much about the dream but about making money. Yes I know this sounds cynical, but thinking you are out to fulfill some kind of dream and your presence means something in the bigger picture is...

you could start spending your extra time finding an new edge that's different from your current one. This way if your current one ceases to exist you have some backup-plan. This might keep you busy for a while. I had mine taken away from me some years ago because of structural market change...

yes you should retry to get it, you allready are subscribed

it's the 'us sec bundled ...' you get futures data with them, so you should try again to get es

it's the vol-smirk