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State law versus federal, but yes it is a bit ironic.

Absolutely true. From my interactions with the owner I've gotten the distinct impression that he is anything but an evil dictator and cares what users think. Generally that kind of person appreciates knowing about and having the opportunity to address issues; I'm guessing he doesn't have the...

You never had the common courtesy to respond to me either in the thread, by PM or email. Hopefully it's not too much to ask that you respond to someone when they respectfully bring up a legitimate issue? When you don't, they're going to keep posting about it because as far as they know you...

You'll want to call this in to customer service....multiple times. Otherwise they're not going to figure out it needs fixing. I think they have a 100 complaint rule, they don't pay attention to any complaint until they've gotten 100 of the same one, so you might as well start now.

Sounds fair enough. While we're talking about post censorship though, what's your "policy" on changing what someone posted without informing them? For example, I posted a reply to someone else's post. The post I replied to was deleted, which made my reply a little hard to understand, granted...

I presume you've got your life savings in far OTM puts, or at least short SPY, given you have this insight possessed by so few?

I'm a gen x'er and pretty much no-one in my generation intellectually expected SS to pay out much of anything from the time we entered the workforce 20 years ago. I presume the generations after us are even more pessimistic. Of course understanding that intellectually and actually putting money...

Good advice. Also keep in mind that IB keeps half of the money with their yield enhancement program and nothing says they're actually going to lend out your particular stock so you could participate for months with stocks that could theoretically be lent but aren't and you'll get nothing. You...

It reflects the best guess of the market as to the actual underlying NAV when the index opens the next day. For example, if Europe closed flat and the S&P jumped 2% after the European markets closed, FEZ will trade for something above it's NAV, which is only reflecting the European close. The...

I don't know how to make this clearer, if you think developing winning algo's are a once or twice in a lifetime accomplishment and/or someone is going to steal your algo and harm you, neither Quantopian or any other commercial backtester is for you! Learn how to program and spend a few thousand...

From 2015 but still I have to wonder how the guy managed to short a penny stock at etrade which from my understanding doesn't allow it?

I agree. There are certain actions which will require them to file a suspicious activity report under Bank Secrecy Act currency transaction report rules, something like that will likely trigger such a report. It's your money and you can do whatever you want with it, but to avoid a completely...

I think this is the fundamental issue. You're assuming mispricing on a very liquid option traded by the most sophisticated portion of the trading population. A mispricing you see and they don't, despite having never sold options before. Possible, I don't know you background you and may have done...

I think we probably agree (except for the name calling part, oh and the anti intelligent thought part as well). You can generate alpha with trading, and you can certainly use derivatives to do that. Use of derivatives in long term buy and hold investing has been clearly shown to be suboptimal. I...

Just to be clear, you're talking 20 years ago right? I'm not aware of anywhere you can short penny stocks today, regardless of how much money you have.

The expected value of any long term investing strategy is directly related to it's risk. Engaging in "Sophisticated" strategies is just fooling yourself with randomness. Trading can definitely deliver alpha, but if you're doing long term investing derivatives are fairly priced. If you're getting...

Actually hedging downside risk of a buy and hold portfolio using options has been pretty clearly shown to be suboptimal in the literature. You pay exactly what the fair value of those options are, plus spreads and commissions which are where your losses come in over simply buy and hold. No free...

Then it doesn't matter, does it? As long as my algos keep working I don't really give a crap if some programmer at Quantopian or anywhere else is investing his $20k in it as well. The scale needed to arb away the profitability of most of my algos would be at a big hedge fund level and I don't...

If you're "some traders" then an online system like this will never be for you, as I indicated. There's really two camps, one feels like they've found "the answer", and they must protect this golden egg at all costs. If you're that kind of person, just ignore threads like this, write your own...

How do you short penny stocks?