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Do you at least miss the real life? :) I keep thinking that I'll give myself another 2-3 years of this game and move out to the south of France, but I know it will never happen...

You are forgetting a rule of 3F - "if it floats, flies or fucks, you're better off renting it".

So what is it that you trade? :)

I am sure you got that right. The options trading videos that you present truly can not be found anywhere else...

I hate you now.

So sporadic interaction with a few traders made you expert on all traders at both firms?

i like the island-based stuff, like lagavulin, but lately I've switched to burbons... can we keep going along this path please? it's more fun then bashing the latest reincarnation of ForexForex :)

Dude, window washer at JPM must have been a harsh gig for him (especially if you got to wash the ex-BS building, that one is hard core).

This might be true for retail pikers (also known as "profitable independent traders" on this forum), but in real life any large risk-taking enterprise is a multifaceted venue with a long of people pooling different strategies and different skills. The real objection to my points is that usually...

Have you really? May I ask in what role?

Personally, I would not make any correlation assumptions on a stock that has zero realized history and is still in price discovery mode. By the EOD I saw some Jun options going through the brokers market. Pretty wide vol-wise but I am still puzzled by people that would make any kind of...

I am surely going off-topic, but why is it that when people happen to be making money (a.k.a "are profitable") they think that they know enough and do not need to learn anything new? PS. It especially puzzles me in the world of convex instruments like options, where you can be "profitable"...

Are you an artist formerly known as ForexForex?

The real advantage is that they have a very good security master data. Otherwise, it's run of the mill stuff - expertise or no expertise, you will end up building your own queries and indices. I updated the link :)

It does not really have some stuff that you would want to have as an options trader, e.g. good vol models, especially if you are trading from vol perspective, not form fundamental views. If you any good with DB work yourself and only care about the US...

Most probably more sellers then buyers. There could be other reasons, but this one is the most plausible.

Are you bwolinskys twin brother?

You get one month free for var/vix and other volatility derivatives if you purchase subscription for a year or buy me a drink :)

Dude, if you don't have a clue about the trade, the product or the market...

I do some of that, liquidity is pretty low but sometimes you get very good opportunities. The general idea is to play option price based on vol vs spot drift based on the same vol.