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Yeah,I thought the naked call was ATM..

What's your thoughts on 6 month ATM vol vs 2 year ATM?? Would you be a buyer or seller of the 6 month vs 2 year ATM calendar?? Thats your answer

Did your dividend investing performance coincide with rates crashing to close to zero,and did it outperform ??

What part of this are you calling bullshit on? Do you believe he never had a position ,or the size was greatly exaggerated?? Are you thinking if the positions were real,he sold out way earlier?? If he was posting 100 percent bogus trades,can his broker legally publicly state otherwise or have...

And what sort of returns are we talking?? Value has been a Tough road the last 15 years

Hey Jones,whats your holding period??

Long call spread=short put spread,assuming same month and strikes...Box arbitrage

No question selling the 1000 plus vol upside calls was a very "viable" strategy.. Doesn't appear that he did so..... It takes a special breed of human to do what he did

I definetly hear you regarding Monday morning quarterbacking a guy who ran a sub 500k account up to 40 mil.... It's very easy to say when the stock hit 400,he should have sold the 200 percent spot calls for 30 percent plus.. Truth is,I would have sold the calls,the only difference would have...

You were aynthetically short the 28-24 put spread..or long the 24- 28 call spread Long stock with a collar also holds

I left IB for TOS as My commisions on 4 legged spreads were all over the place and as high as 4 bucks per fly...

Isn't Sven a value guy?? Do you follow him?

At the Hedge fund,it was some sort of stat arb mean reversion with a twist. I wasn't privy to the details,but the Head of the fund told me they never had down days...the issue was they were constrained by the size they could get on. The other guy who rarely if ever had a down day,either went...

Agree with everything you said except for the last sentence.. I have traded in the pits,was the head trader of derivative and worked at a major hedge fund.. While I am not capable of developing models with "mathematical precision",I can assure you there are those who can..and do...and rarely...

Total hindsight,but kicking out the APR 470 calls at 150-170 would have made life alot less sressful..

True,but shouldnt the same be said about price data?? Let's face it,there are a handful of James Simons and everyone else... Imho,great trading is as much an art as a science...

Hey,you are one of the good guys!!!

For some odd reason I thought you were a day trader....

99% of the time,you can trust financial reports... Just like price bars,Its your interpretation that counts

How are you guys trading GME???? TOS is not letting me sell puts,cash secured or not.. I was attempting to leg a fly,bought the higher strike put and got rejected on the sale ..WTF?????? I get the risk on the call side