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We live in a world where production is what is taxed, this isn't anything new. The other alternative is a tax on wealth, a bunch of people seem pretty dead set against that. Given that it's far more efficient to socialize costs like roads, police, national security....and that has to be paid...

You do the "comprehende" thing just to annoy people, or are you showing off your Spanish skills (It's comprende by the way)? There are lots of reasons why high margin kills otherwise low to no risk strategies, buying naked futures isn't the only way to trade them. A little humility about the...

Next thing you know these guys are gonna claim they landed on the moon:p

That's how confirmation bias works, we only see what we want to see. A shockingly large number of my right of center friends still thought that Al Qaeda made millions buying puts on airlines before 9/11 when I asked them, even though it was pretty definitively determined that they didn't. There...

Do you realize that you gave a non-answer that made no sense?

Just to add to the humor of the situation: "Barnett is currently on probation for a 1992 kidnapping in Pinellas County, records show. In a written report submitted to his probation officer in January, Barnett said his personal goal was "learning financial markets.""...

I've gotta believe this is due to the way IB calculates SPAN on a spread. As you've encountered, no one there grasps the concept of a spread. So they treat it as two completely independent positions with no relation to each other. This is evidenced by the fact that they charge any margin at all...

Whatever dude. I'd say the guy who thinks saving children from polio is a bad thing is the one in cognitive decline, but that's just me, probably too much time on my hands. Of course you could question the decline part since that presumes some height to begin with.

First he was remarking that it might happen, not suggesting it should. Second, you're right, he may not have a valid idea here. I don't really especially like the guy, at least the Microsoft version of Gates. But when some jackass who for all we know could be living in a trailer with his mom...

You're right. In fact, why don't you just start killing everyone around you, you might get the next Hitler and save lives! Again I'd be curious what you've accomplished to make the world a better place? Or you just throw stones and take the utterly absurd position that preventing kids from...

So he's gotta conquer death to be anything but a rich guy with too much time on his hands. Wow, you must have made a staggering contribution to humanity to have such high standards, what was that contribution again? Clearly you don't have kids, I mean if I only prevented your child from dying of...

Um, you are aware this particular rich person started a foundation that has saved the lives of tens of millions of children and cut the number of polio cases in the world from 350,000 cases a year to 37, among other things...

Exactly. Which is why i started this thread. Yes credit spreads have a great looking win rate. But using the above equation their returns looks pretty bad in anything other than an unusually high vol environment Since you can buy or sell them, knowing that one type has a poor return tells you...

Commercial property maybe, but as someone trying (and failing) to buy a house from 1998-2002 I can tell you home prices didn't go down a bit on the lower end and the whole bidding war insanity was still going on for every sub-$1M house or condo that came on the market. Moved back in 2007 and...

At least he's being consistent, that line of thinking is the logical conclusion of a TA mindset. Apparently you can not only predict future prices from the upside down tea kettle stuck on the head and shoulders, but also major world events!

My bad, fixated on the "hedged' in the name I guess!

Lots of mom and pop types meet the qualified investor requirement to invest in a hedge fund?

It isn't a nail in the coffin of anything! I can point to a fund that lost money at some point using any strategy that you can come up with. That's hardly a "nail in the coffin" of that entire strategy. Basic logic my friend, basic logic!

Argggg! I've demonstrated over and over that YOU CAN'T LOSE MORE IN A VERTICAL DEBIT SPREAD THAN YOU PAID FOR IT! 'Murican option or European, IB can always always always protect itself in a way that would ensure they wouldn't lose a cent. Neither you or anyone else has shown this to be untrue...

Why in the world would you discourage someone from providing liquidity where there isn't currently any, are you the liquidity police now? And why would liquidity have any impact whatsoever on a margin for a vertical debit spread, which as I've pointed out over and over is impossible to lose more...