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Why would you need to "hedge" short term price swings in an option. They're not MTM, you pay the entire premium up front and at most you can lose all of it. That's one of the whole reasons for buying a call. The concept of "hedging" in the manner you're using it is a fallacy anyway; you get risk...

Yeah, still waiting for @systematictrader to follow through on his promise from a month ago that "i will get the info for you no worries". I guess he figures if he ignores being dead wrong on something he can avoid learning from it and that's a good thing because???

The problem isn't with the penny stocks or people like you. It's that when you allow people to "discuss" them on a forum like this it tends to quickly devolve into everyone trying to either pump or dump the stock they're holding or short.

What's even funnier is that he "threatens" to block everyone but apparently doesn't realize that we all know he hasn't done so because we can still see his posts. Nothing more pitiful than a jackass who a. thinks anyone cares if he blocks them and b. can't even manage to follow through on the...

Hey, I've got a great idea. Why don't you just block all of us "trolls" in one fell swoop by going elsewhere? Clearly you've got nothing to learn from anyone here, so why would you stick around unless you somehow get your jollies from blocking everyone on a site one by one?

Saying "Basically the yield hasn't changed since June 1 but there was a big sell off first week of june then there wasa big bounce back." about Treasuries may not make you a wanker. But it does make you someone who doesn't know even the most fundamental aspects of how bonds work (price changes...

I've seen a couple actual agreements from founders who sold their company for stock in the acquirer. They involved several pages of language to prevent them from doing what Mark Cuban did. I can certainly see that being absent in 1999, I don't think it is today. Not to mention, one wonders why...

Right, then what they sell them isn't "restricted". My point being you don't have any companies who sell a tranche of stock with a restriction on selling before a certain date naively not grasping the fact that if the counterparty can short sell or buy puts or any other exact replica of selling...

If a hedge fund owns restricted stock it's generally because they bought it directly from the company. And generally the company would have the basic intelligence to understand that the stock isn't effectively "restricted" if you can exactly replicate selling it at any time by selling the...

He's sold a bunch of books, I'm guessing that's where the majority of his money comes from! Ironically he got a multi-million dollar advance for Skin in the Game, a book that teaches against the evils of things like book advances.

Whatever the notional, my point is that your profit or loss on Dec 31st that you MTM is generally a tiny portion of your annual P&L if you're an active trader. And if you're exclusively trading 1256 contracts for a living you're almost certainly a very active trader.

Let me ask you this, what percentage of your 1256 annual traded volume do you MTM on Dec 31st? If you're an active trader with, say a $1M account, chances are you will have traded hundreds of millions by Dec 31 but will only have a few million notional that you MTM at the end of the year. So...

While conservatives screamed about our descent into socialism and hyper inflation. Those same voice's silence is deafening this time around isn't it?

Actually most beef you buy in the store comes from cows that were fed more than 75% grain for most of their lives. If you ever see a feed lot you won't likely see a blade of grass. Grass fed beef is significantly leaner for any given cut, and I know people who are really into beef like my dad...

Or several of the airlines can declare chapter 11, as almost all have at least once before. The company remains, but common shareholders go to zero and don't come back when the company comes back.

Oanda has binary options?

The "stupid rules" you are railing against are laws passed by the elected Congress of the United States and signed by the President of the United States. They are most decidedly not decided by "non-elected bureaucrats". Just like there's no"unconstitutional discrimination" at play per your...

To your point, I think the Nasdaq performance over the last several weeks is a tail risk that would have bitten you if you'd been selling calls.

The "broker" you're working with is the counterparty to all your trades. Therefore there's no "liquidity" or lack of it when you're trading their platform, it's just them on the other side of every trade. I doubt at $10,000 you use up all their liquidity to the point they won't enter a trade...

Robinhood is growing substantially faster than that. That growth doesn't say anything about if Robinhood is a good broker for anyone here.