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George Soros is a US citizen so what do you mean by "foreigner?"

A non-democratic country told many Americans which presidential candidate to vote for.....

I agree they are different worlds. And being a “businessman” doesn’t mean you can run the government like a business successfully. The reason is that you have people who only gain by not dealing with you. The reason that I would vote for a fortune 50 ceo is that running a massive Corp is like...

I should have completed my thought (I blame multi-tasking with toddler bedtime): I would wager running a fortune 50 firm makes you as qualified to be president as being a senator or state governor. You can say that Rex tillerson is an example of a failure and that would only be because he...

There's a huge difference between running a family business (with no meaningful independent outside investors) and a large public company.

The stock part of a covered call can potentially be treated as long term capital gains. For American options on dividend paying stocks, covered calls and puts are not strictly equivalent.

It was a she and Fox News only wrote the article so they could say "vibrant brunette"

Michelin guides have biases. For example they are big into basque cooking. If you want, you can go to northern Spain and in an hour you can book about 15 Michelin stars worth of meals over a week. And the population of those towns are only like a few hundred thousand. It's not like tokyo is a...

It will be tough to continue using that argument now, won't it?

"On MY course"?

I think your idea definitely works on ETFs (that are similar but strictly different). I am not sure it works on options of the same underlying.

I learned a new word today: "cudgel" I'm not really sure how a merger would solve the Amazon problem. The risk for CVS and Walgreens is that the pharmacies don't really make money. The money is made on everything between the pharmacy (in the back) and the cash register (in the front). The...

I tried to delete my post after reading up in the thread. He might be right because shorts are marked by the cover date, not the initial short. I will ask my accountants and see what they say.

I believe that qualifies as a wash sale. For a wash sale the irs looks at options with the same cusip as the underlying.

I suspect that a lot fewer people are earning on real estate than they claim to be.

Michelin has always been accused of being biased towards French food but this list makes it seem they like sushi more.

The post I quoted didn't point to those as reasons to be a fulltime trader.

There are lots of good options.

Trades like carpentry. Not trades like stocks

Tom B's only contribution are one line insults. I thought you were more intellectual than that.