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yeah, I think I'll run out and buy near-dated OTM just-post-ER premium on the ultimate crush-machine stocks. I am convinced that, literally, for the most part, most of the time, the moves of these particular stocks are driven by the option net positions. A sucker's graveyard and IMO your odds...

^ forgiven soooo,,, 2 economists walk into a bar...

HO LEE FOOK

...And just like that... Thread becomes a platform for posturing one's political views The irony is palpable

to make (more) money?

But yet if one is of the "Austrian" school they are ridiculed

There was a daily show episode years ago where the guest compared economics in a nobel prize context to monkeys throwing theses at one another. :DWish I could find that clip for you. To me the glaring problem is precisely the lack of a scientific approach, so by definition economics cannot be a...

more politics than academics

LOL economics, a "science"

Just as an observation, could be wrong here, but it seems to me looking at that curve you have one "filter" in particular that served to avoid the major drawdown(s) (a get out filter) & it his largely responsible for (probably) just about all your excess returns, I am guessing, and I'm also...

Yeah but the equation changes if they realize they are incapable of the upside vol:eek:

Allow me to elaborate: What we are speaking of here is essentially a claim of "alpha" generation e.g. the risk-free kicker/juice. I say this because what is clearly displayed is the "stability" (lack of draw-downs) relative to generic portfolio (index), of the strategy relative to its own...

check out this little beauty in Hong Kong this evening (I got out way too quickly) symbol = 250

ooof that strategy has been very difficult to pull off successfully lately (last ~1yr) has it not? Follow thru has been hard to come by in my universe, mean reversion galore tho

on a more constructive note, what characteristics do you look for in a spread for selling to open?

yah, sadly it appears I'm just too stupid to understand your point here. I see not such information all I see is that some options (presumably) changed hands

How can you say that is a debit? I see no such info

sure it is, high water mark means this particular "manager" cannot get paid until he makes 15%, and the "team" likely realizes, they are incapable of that (?) It's not about the investor, ya-know?