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So I think it's important to differentiate between "bias" and "lies". For example in the article I posted I think anyone would be hard pressed to find any "lies". You may think the article is biased in that it paints Trump in a poor light. I happen to think blatant violation of the emoluments...

Put call parity doesn't hold with a stock that's got a high borrow rate...just work through the no arbitrage scenario of shorting the stock opposite your synthetic position and the reasoning will be obvious.

So again I asked for you to iterate specific examples from a specific article and you again fail to do so. I'm also confused, are you unable to read the Washington Post in the Netherlands? If I wanted to learn about events in the Netherlands I'd read a Dutch news source, why wouldn't you read...

I was reading "90% of the news articles i get to see here about Trump are at least full of mistakes if not just lies, every single one of them.". Your words, not mine. Since "every single one of them" contain these "mistakes if not just lies", then when I pick one you should easily be able to...

You can buy a wide SPX box spread at a discount to it's guaranteed final value, so they couldn't naively stop all spreads that were an arb free profit without taking interest rates into effect. At the point they have to decide what's a "reasonable" interest rate it would get pretty hairy for...

So pick a random article and point out the specific mistakes or lies. Here, go ahead with this one which is from the Washington Post which is a favorite of consipiracy theorists with "hidden agendas" and "manipulation" so you should easily be able to find a dozen "mistakes" or "lies", please put...

That's not really a thing here in the U.S. at the federal level, there are actually pretty strict rules about even using the tax losses of a company you purchase (with another profitable company), let alone selling tax losses. There are some states where you can purchase tax credits, but again...

You need a new accountant if you're maintaining these year after year! If you simply stop trading the securities in question 30 days before the end of the year and don't trade them again until Jan 1st you have no wash sale tax issues, it's really that easy. And if you need more detail, @elt894...

Yep, pretty much every single one of them allows you to sell a wide SPX box which gets you as close as any retail trader is going to get to the wholesale lending rate. No need to pay any broker's margin interest.

So first off arbitration follows the law and the law is crystal clear here, no fine print exceptions. And second it's almost inevitably biased toward the entity that gets to choose the arbitrator. So if I was to put money on it I'd give him about a 5% chance of winning anything at arbitration...

Yeah, I can see having lost it but it makes no sense they'd never have provided confirmation of closure or would refuse to provide it.

Good luck with the "it was in the small print" defense the negates all established contract law! What legal theory or precedent are you resting that argument, such that it is, on exactly? Oanda should certainly work with the client from a customer service perspective, but they're in no way...

Actually I flipped my terminology, thanks for the correction! It's a synthetic long, but will capture the borrow rate same as if you bought the stock and lent it out. If it's an expensive to borrow stock put/call parity will be broken and the ATM puts will sell for much more than the ATM calls...

For stocks that have options (like ZM but not BIMI), keep in mind you can sell ATM puts and buy an equivalent number of ATM calls for a synthetic long (corrected, thanks @trader99) and capture the entire borrow rate. Just like the broker, even if you're "cattle class". No need to be "fucked in...

Yeah, with the level of overpricing it's a second order effect in any event if you're betting the discount will return to near zero in a reasonable amount of time.

There's an inherent assumption in this discussion that recession = high volatility. While the inflection from growth to recession may certainly exhibit this causation, I'm not sure there's anything more than random chance that it would persist in a multi-year recession. In fact my (completely...

Nothing illegal in the first instance even in the U.S., you just obviously won't get the tax benefit in the U.S. You'll lose money on the second one because the roll rate is set up so that you always get a haircut if you're holding two opposite positions, if you're talking bucket shop brokers.

They also do provide value if you're someone with no interest or time to manage money and made a lot of it suddenly through something like company stock options. Just diversifying someones portfolio and advising on tax implications of option exercise is of huge value to a 30 year old software...

Come on, CBOE "investigated" and determined that no such manipulation exists or ever existed (but they're cracking down on it nonetheless). You didn't see anything:D Thanks for the heads up, great info as always!

I seem to recall it was more in the 40% range for specifically the Asian tiger countries like Thailand and Malaysia after the crash they suffered in the 90s. Same underlying cause though, no ability to redeem or create shares, although I believe they were trading at a discount to NAV. In some...