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How is this? If you trade futures in the US you get 60/40 treatment which comes out to roughly 23% assuming 15% capital gains rate and 35% top income rate. Let's be honest, most traders are not even in that top income rate which drops their overall rate into the teens. Is that 30% in Sweden...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2017/09/06/the-three-quants-in-their-20s-running-a-hedge-fund-making-1-billion-of-trades-daily/#49c9ed71886a

I'm curious, give me your best pitch as to why in 2018 someone would still invest with a stranger over the phone. I mean if this were 1995, sure. But what is your strongest selling point?

Energy stocks have nothing to do with oil prices. They are toll operators, they make their money on QTY demanded. The reason oil stocks are volatile and trade at steep discounts to comparable companies is because of the volatility in their cash flows. They are as a group, very debt laden...

Not exactly. I believe SPX was around 1200 at the time and these puts were staggered like 700, 800, 900, etc.

Read on DallasNews.com: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2018/06/01/permian-basin-drillers-waiting-new-pipelines-going-long-wait

Zany, they are talking about the premium in the spread differentials. For example, the WTI/Brent spread has blown out the last month from -5 dollars to close to -12 dollars. That means WTI is trading 12 dollars cheaper than Brent. WTI in Midland is even cheaper right now, it's trading about...

Quantstart is more of a community like ET. So you can exchange ideas with others, learn to code, read about how these algos actually work in trading. Coursera is great and I love MOOCs in general, but it's just a course, and really a theoretical look at the backbone of machine learning. The...

You got bad data. When I blew our guy out the spreads on .10 puts the day before were $20 wide. Yes, 20 dollars on puts there were nickel bid at ten cent offer the day before.

I would highly reccomend you checking out Quantstart. Same cost, but a lot more value. https://www.quantstart.com/

I can't believe how many ETers fell for this thread. It explains a lot about the markets.

This story is 100% bullshit. Stop feeding this troll.

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100% troll. Moderators...do your thing.

Are you f*cking serious?

May 6th, 2010. About 1pm eastern time.

It will all come out in court. Everyone is suing the shit out of them. I'm sure we will get a very detailed explanation of what happened.

In 2008 they lost 67% in their aggressive fund. They almost blew out. They issued a large apology to their investors after that and swore it would never happen again. It was after 2008 that they started buying options in all 3 of their funds to prevent such an event from happening again...

The ratio works fine if the market trades down in a linear fashion over time. Sudden drops and ratios are not only useless but generate massive losses and sharp increases in margin.