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    Risk/Reward Ratio

    You and Redneck should spend 5 minutes reading up on the Kelly Criteria...
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    Risk/Reward Ratio

    Attacking the messenger?? You shared your opinion,and presented ZERO to substantiate your opinion... Stops are good,profit targets are worthless... Great news,now spend 5 minutes and read an intro book on Probability and statistics
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    Risk/Reward Ratio

    Fuzzy math ?? Any relation to fuzzy logic?? Yikes!!!!
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    Risk/Reward Ratio

    Cmon,so a stop is based on math,and a profit target is pure voodoo??
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    Risk/Reward Ratio

    Not a bad thing at all, no need to be defensive.You came out with a very strong opinion,that I doubt you could back up from a probability/statistics perspective. I'll go out on a limb and say you are not a believer in any form of DCF analysis, nor the math behind option trading and determing...
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    Risk/Reward Ratio

    Let me quess,you are a trend follower... That's great,and may work for you,but to completely disregard the "reward" side of the equation is absurd....unless you are a systematic trend follower or reinvented probability and statistics.
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    A complicated options trade that has helped prop up U.S. stocks is starting to unravel

    Derivatives,ex trader at 2 major IB's,who has traded dispersion books.. Your statement about options and futures being cheaper is clearly from a retail perspective.. The trade is supposedly a dispersion trade,which IMHO was poorly explained
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    Are You Paranoid Or Not ?

    Who wants to know?
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    This Hedge Fund’s Two Feuding Founders Are Under Pressure to Make Peace

    Didn't read 95% of the artice,but these 2 fucktards deserve one another..Your over 45,worth billions and you are waking up every day and showing up to deal with a guy you can't stand???
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    A complicated options trade that has helped prop up U.S. stocks is starting to unravel

    Im assuming this was some sort of implied correlation trade,not a,straight correlation bet
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    A complicated options trade that has helped prop up U.S. stocks is starting to unravel

    Wait..Wut?? Buy calls in the Magnificent 7,sell SnP calls to offset the cost,and then they hedge their short position in SnP with long shares of the same 7 stocks to offset the risk???? That's one interesting dispersion trade... Did I read it wrong??
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    Portfolio Margin help

    You think :)
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    Are options a waste of time and money? (pun intended)

    At first I thought that you were trading skew,but realized it was a directional call.. Better to post trade
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    Are options a waste of time and money? (pun intended)

    Cmon bro, Post the trades or start a fantasy " skew trade" league
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    Are options a waste of time and money? (pun intended)

    Skew long???? Can you be a little more descriptive?? Long Delta,long/short gamma R/R???
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    Risk/Reward Ratio

    I think we have all been there,the question is how big and who's money
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    Do we need a new greek?

    Why are you going thru all of this if your orientation is Direction/Elliot??? Get a decent program that will enable you to input your directional forecast and generate "optimal" strategies per your chosen metrics... Why needlessly complicate things?
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    Risk/Reward Ratio

    No glass houses here..I ran short vol books for major IB's and hedge funds,and have gotten caught with my pants down.. Short vol, 27 to1 leverage?? ASK and thou shall receive..Only question is when
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