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There are definitely things I'm stodgy about, and my old-time SciFi - even the parody stuff, which ST was supposed to be (at least according to Rodenberry, who came to one of my club's events and did a lecture for us) - is one of them. If somebody wants to make a new show, great - but no need to...

Ugh. I didn't bother seeing any of those movies before, and now I have lots of good reasons to actively avoid them. Spock looks non-binary and gender-fluid, and the actor trying to play McCoy couldn't attract a clue about acting if he was standing in a field of clues in the middle of clue mating...

Oh, look - such sophistication! It almost rivals the shrill, frantic response of a kindergarten-age child who's been told that he stinks from not washing enough: "NO, YOUUUU!" Except for the part where that child's red-faced response is at least an attempt to make some sense. You didn't even...

:D Ah, such pretty economy of expression. Fortunately for newbies - most of whom wouldn't know what any of that means or even that they should look it up - some of us here are willing to translate such elusive mysteries to them... The memories of being so completely lost that I didn't even...

Gap scanners are commonly available, or easily built, for any platform that has scanners. E.g., here's mine on TradeStation (with some additional criteria):

Really? Getting more violent - and I certainly agree that it is - sounds to me like more predictability in vol of vol.

It worked great at some point? Color me surprised.

From the brochure: "Certainly a broad index oriented strategy that buys all the securities at their respective weights every night and sells them every morning could lead to a high level of transaction costs that would negate the value of the Night Effect." It's not a single transaction cost.

Fanaticism is dangerous, of course. But whataboutism isn't a good answer to someone pointing out that a problem exists.

Yeah. People with HVAC, running water, indoor plumbing, refrigeration, a grocery store with meat, year round produce and fruit... saying "eat the rich". They are the richest 1% of the planet - and according to endless surveys, more willing to lose a finger than their smartphone - and they're...

Correct. "some potential", in this case, being the extrinsic value of the option. The way that most people use the term - i.e., the cash market close of the listed expiration day - yes, it can (and usually is.) The actual expiration - whatever it happens to be for a given exchange, e.g...

Everything I've said still applies. If it's exercised early, you get free tendies. If it's exercised after expiration, the terminal payoff values apply. Simple.

Yeah, I'm having some trouble with my upstream provider this morning. Try this: https://flightdm.com/options/payoff.html

That's basically it. The socialists here have been pumping that message ever since the 60s, and they've managed to take over a certain percentage of people's minds. A bit of a view from the other side: when I was a kid growing up in the USSR, we all knew about the GRU-run program to take over...

So... many... words... First, get absolutely clear on the terminal P&L for a given strike, premium, and price at expiration. [1] Then - for early exercise, which you seem to be interested in for some reason (and which happens very rarely) - add in understanding of remaining extrinsic value...

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It's been, what, just over a week since SPX realized like 5% in one day with VIX implying well under 2% (<30 / 16) for the month??? How quickly people forget.

Just wanted to say - after heartily agreeing with the rest - that this is pure gold. I've had a couple of businesses of my own - quite the learning experience, given that my early upbringing in Russia contributed nothing useful to that process, and one hell of a lot of stumbling blocks - and I...

Ah, verbiage straight from the Marxist Playbook for Fifth Column Marchers, 1962 edition. That will surely convey useful, truthful, and accurate information... BTW, you'll want to review the definitions section of that manual: "Truth To Power" only applies when people NOT in power put themselves...

Nah, it's actually customers - vicious bastards, every last one of them! All thieves and ripoff artists, always wheedling you for a discount and running off to competitors when there's even a penny difference in price, or the other guy's product is even a tiny bit better. Those traitors. Why...