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Well the argument he makes against HFT (it adds no social value) could be made against all traders regardless of duration. Other than providing that ever elusive "liquidity" it is difficult to see what social value any trader has. Face it, none of you entered trading to benefit society. You...

Golly - that put is worth $9 today. Another lottery ticket that I missed.

If you believe that some combination of long only funds and Evil Speculators (TM) have pushed the oil price up well beyond the price justified by the market, then do what a trader should do -- short oil and come back here in a month and brag about your profits. As I recall the long only...

Volatility is silver has spiked up, daily swings are huge, so it was only prudent to raise the margin requirement.

I hope not. Of course I can say that for almost all the Republicans considering to run for President.

Osama bin Laden is dead. Fine. Get we get out of the wars now?

If the bid/asks were narrow enough you could sell a box for something close to $5.80 and wait until it expires worth $5 even, a 16% profit on a risk free trade The market is never so generous so I assume the bid/ask spreads are wide and the disparities you see between the vertical call spread...

Well, it worked well in that case. It was the typical "go long when the price breaks out of congestion on the long side" trade, which works sometimes and sometimes not. But in any case that type of pattern is certainly what I would classify under TA. The issue of whether indicators are used...

I fail to see any real distinction between "price action" and TA. I define TA as any trading method that's driven solely by the price and volume charts. People using "price action" are using *some* sort of pattern matching to decide when to enter a trade, and some purely chart based rule to...

Bernie Sanders is a self described socialist, so it's no surprise he's getting on the "Evil Oil Speculators" bandwagon. Jeesh, supply, demand, and Federal Reserve money printing couldn't have anything to do with the high price of gas, could they?

I'm no fan of Donald Trump, but let's face it, <i>anybody</i> who criticizes Obama gets called a racist. That was the one good thing about George W. Bush. You could call him a moron, a fascist, a toad sucking turd ball, or any other such accurate description, but because he is white you were...

There are no U.S. corporations. There are only multinational corporations that have found Delaware to be a good flag of convenience. Even when they prosper they don't hire American citizens. If you believe that U.S. stocks are going down in real terms (i.e., in terms of what you can buy with...

If I could predict where silver is going I'd be a much richer man today. I guess most of us expect a pullback in the silver price after such a huge run up but when the pullback happens and by how much is another matter entirely. Far OTM options are lottery tickets. You will most likely see...

As daveyc has already said, if you buy a stock and sell covered calls at the same time this is exactly equivalent to selling cash covered puts at the same strike price as the call -- except your broker gets to collect two commissions instead of one. Unless you are a short term trader in...

Me, I find it amusing to find all the speculator hating going on here in ET. Whatever it is that you're trading (stocks, bonds, futures, options, currency, baseball cards, or whatever) you are speculating. Look in the mirror.

Gold and silver are taxed as "collectibles" when sold.

No, it's not for people who know everything. But really, you should know that it costs money to buy a put.

That's true on the planet Zarkon, where you can buy puts for free. Come back to ET after you've learned how options work here on planet Earth.

What is "revcon activity"?

What astonishes me is that parents are willing to remortgage their homes, spend their retirement money, and get deep into debt in order to send their children to universities that teach stuff like that.