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The market has an upward bias because it is made up of companies that create things and add value. As an example, I'm an entrepreneur. I started a company and own all the stock. The day after I started the company I had one client and a small revenue base, so my stock wasn't worth much. I grew...

You do understand that Amazon's borrowing rate reflects their risk. And that if they bought companies with a higher borrowing rate, which reflects their higher risk, then Amazon's overall risk level would go up to reflect that. And then Amazon could no longer borrow at 4%. There are very few...

I highly recommend reading the CBOE page on the subject. Essentially it writes fully collateralized puts, i.e. if the index was at 100 they would need $100 to write 1 put. Therefore the underlying index (S&P 500) would have to go to 0 for the putwrite index to go to $0. As Butterball pointed...

No need to guess, the index has data going back to 1986. In 2015 the index was up 6.4% vice the S&P up 1.4%...

The OP specifically asked about what appeared to be a risk free opportunity that he suspected was too good to be true. Several posters provided very good, on-point answers to that very specific question. You provided an generic response about what newbie option traders should do. Then end your...

Let's be clear, bucket shops have real people who work for them and can set up "financial institution accounts". That in no way makes them professional firms you can trust, and making payments by PayPal with a $10,000 limit just screams unprofessional! The trust in addresses is also charmingly...

Except the IRS is concerned mainly about using a wash sale to move money in to a tax deferred account. The rule you cited covers that, by disallowing the tax loss in the taxable account. Moving it out doesn't really make any sense when you could just borrow against it.

Certainly all fair points about polling data, although Sessions going after IP addresses of web sites that don't support Trump is a real thing without much ambiguity. I've lived though a number of political cycles, many where I didn't agree with the party in power (hated both Clinton and after...

I think we agree that the present situation in the United States is great (although not nearly as exceptional as you propose). Hell I spent over 20 years of my life defending it. And I'm more than sensitive to the concept that your team never fouls and the other team never get's called. But...

That was supposed to be a tongue in cheek joke about being afraid of laws based on religious beliefs being fine as long as they're their religious beliefs! Actually I believe not drinking alcohol is in fact part of Sharia law, the Abrahamic religions differ mainly in how closely their followers...

Guess it shows I was last in Salt Lake City just about 7 years ago! Actually even then they had a thriving micro-brew scene which I found a little ironic, you just couldn't buy anything to take away as I recall.

Of course we have Sharia law, ever try to buy a six pack of beer on a Sunday in Salt Lake City? It's easy to take the equivalency route, heck even the great intellect of President Trump apparently fell prey to that temptation. A full career in the military leaves me neither afraid of dark...

Since you asked, actually Obama issued 276 over 8 years to Bush's 291, Clinton's 364, and Trump's 43 so far. I think "ill advised" is a political disagreement, those are valid and not really a cause for existential concern. In fact the idea that you and I can have a civil discussion about this...

That's a good question. Don't get me wrong, misuse of the IRS against political groups is and was egregious and wrong. But there's a vast difference between dragging your feet or applying extra scrutiny determining the tax exempt status of a certain group (What the IRS allegedly did under Obama)...

I start to worry when I see things like this https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/department-of-justice-dreamhost-trump-visitor-logs-million-ip/536886/ and even more worried when I see things like this...

Except places where they have thunderstorms.

At this point as a U.S. citizen who proudly served an entire military career I'm starting to think I need the "protection" of a second passport. Not going to revoke my U.S. citizenship for a variety of reasons, not least of which I actually do love the country I served, but "protection" isn't...

Used to be the case but not anymore (https://www.expatinfodesk.com/expat-guide/relinquishing-citizenship/renunciating-your-us-passport/misconceptions-about-renunciation-of-a-us-passport/). You do have to pay the one time expatriation tax though.

Raised as a fundamentalist I can quote nearly the entire thing for you. It was when I had an open mind I realized what a bunch of rubbish it was and how truly evil most fundamentalists are that I happily left the bonds of the religion behind. I thing that term "open mind" means something...

Because putting your penis in a consenting man's mouth is an awful horrible sin (but putting it in a woman's mouth is fine). Because a goat herder 2000 years ago may have said so. Gluttony is also a sin, not sure why you're not telling obese people (without a "gland problem" of course) to...