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Perhaps someone should explain the shockingly radical concepts of "taxes" and "absence of competition in government-supported institutions" to this M.W. person.

Oh, your inability to stop crawling after me while desperately trying to come up with something even mildly insulting is very much about me - to you. Not getting enough attention or validation at home, are you? Any degree of it - even revulsion - is sweeter to you than its absence? That's pretty...

Ah, more delusion from the delusional. Not surprising, but - these types will continue to dig deeper even after the hole they're in starts falling in on them... Tell me, are these "options" that you saw in this thread in the room with us now? Can you point to a spot on this stock certificate...

:confused::confused::confused: Seriously??? Perhaps rethinking your sense of outrage about perfectly normal business dynamics is in order. You know how a supermarket doesn't shove their employees out the door immediately after closing time? Because... you know... there might be work to do...

Don't project your utter cluelessness onto others, please. It's obvious that complexity results in total incomprehension in your (putative) mind, but that's not the case for everyone; some of us are quite comfortable with concepts larger than "fight it, eat it, flee it, or fuck it" which you...

It was an appropriate reaction to a wall of sales text where a single sentence with relevant information would do. You've demonstrated that you understand that point quite well, so no need to project an affront to justify yourself.

Er... thanks. Not that I was asking for a full-on sales prezzo; just some compelling reason to use one over the other. I will note that, despite the massive copy-pasta, you haven't demonstrated one (although the last bullet point was a nice try): most of the above pertains to much finer-grained...

That's awesome. Finance horror flicks on tap... better than the "Martian Invasion" radio broadcast of 1938. Just be sure to have 911 queued up on your phone in case of heart attacks! :D

I'm not super-privy to the actual mechanics, but I've heard we have these things called "computers" nowadays that can calculate things on the fly... :D Seriously, though: there's lots of moving parts to this stuff, and getting buried in the details is for specialists who can borrow a couple of...

My point was not to instruct you in doing an arb; it's that if such an opportunity ever did exist, it would have been arbed away instantly. Therefore, it doesn't exist. Yep, that's a better question. It's called "basis", which consists of the cost of carry minus the dividends. This is why the...

I always find it slightly humorous when various market "gurus" call for some grand-sounding (and always round) number that the market is simply guaranteed to crash to. When I noticed that tendency, I glanced at the Spooz - nope, not a single one of the crashes reversed at such a nice number...

I've come to see that as a sign of a place that's desperately grabbing for the life preserver before sinking to the bottom. Sure, everything is more expensive - but by the same token, people have that much less money to spend, so they just priced themselves way outside of what someone would pay...

When I see him YOLO his entire net worth into SPX puts, I might believe it. Until then - people can say all kinds of random shit. It doesn't cost anything.

Probably a good idea to review the research that's actually been done. There's a lot of it, and it's pretty thorough. Example: "Illusory profitability of technical analysis in emerging foreign exchange markets" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169207013000964 Also, see...

Thought experiment for you: if it wasn't reflected in the combo, how many milliseconds would pass before some trader arbitraged the living hell out of it and retired on the proceeds? P.S. Tony Saliba's "Managing Expectations" ( h/t @destriero ) covers similar arbs/synthetics. They're, uh, a bit...

In what way would this be any better than, say, Yahoo Finance - which gives you daily prices without the need for any "free usage credit"?

"Our theory is easily proven correct. Assuming a spherical cow in a perfect vacuum..." In the real world, those things actually matter. In the case of volatility, it matters one hell of a lot. When it comes to finance, I have very little interest in purely theoretical discussions that have...

So... how's that new gig as @earth_imperator's biographer going? Since he doesn't have any money to pay you with, I mean? :D (Not that he's reached that realization stage yet. Obviously not. But everything up till that point, yeah...)

The entertaining part is seeing just how dumb he's going to get each time around. It's like a drunk, loud, arrogant teenager who's pushed all the little kids off the swings and taken it over: right now, he's going "Wheeeee!" and swinging higher and higher while giggling like a loon... but sooner...

Can't Remember Shit, also known as the CRAFT disease. Boy, I'll larn ya to speak 'Murcan if it's the last thing I do! Can't deny it - it looks like a bunch of swarming gnats... sounds like an extended version of a Verizon ringtone, though. Do better. :)