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    Experienced, successful traders, how did you get started?

    I'll take simple. My dad had two families (wives) and two separate households for decades. Found out about the half-siblings after he went debit for $6MM.
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    Experienced, successful traders, how did you get started?

    I don't drink. "Drone strike incoming Amazon delivery inbound!"
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    AMP Global Application Requirements

    FWIW I think you're being handed a shit deal. They should have no problem opening your account.
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    Experienced, successful traders, how did you get started?

    omg, you had to re-quote the entire post? I was stating that it smacks of elitism. It's not. I am a degen.
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    AMP Global Application Requirements

    You problem rhymes with "Lydia"
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    Experienced, successful traders, how did you get started?

    FU, I know how it reads. I spent all of the gains from 1996 on travel, booze, MDMA, Ibiza, hooers and a Hummer H1. I lost a bit on Q1 1997 and had to earn my way out of my IRS debt. Sold the H1 at a big loss. Shady.
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    AMP Global Application Requirements

    You're a Canadian resident who is a citizen of a South Asian country applying to open an account with a US FCM.
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    Buying Naked Calls

    My earliest handle and it was deleted as would delete all messages yearly. I'm up for it but it always stuck with me as overtly stalky.
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    Experienced, successful traders, how did you get started?

    "Then hopefully the falling IV will help me enough to overcome some of the other math." Confucius, 481BC
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    Buying Naked Calls

    I can't get the PM back, but someone was talking sh!t on here about Sossy/TOS back in the day and I received a PM from someone from TOS asking me if I knew the guy. I had simply posted to the thread. That's fvcked up.
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    Experienced, successful traders, how did you get started?

    I trade vol all through college. I also clerked Summers while in college (CBOE) for my dad and some of his friends. I went to the CIS school at UChicago and was offered a gig in govt but passed to take a gig at an OMM in Chicago. I left for a job at a Primary T-dealer in NY but ended up on the...
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    691,000 people moved out of California last year. Here's where they went.

    200K net loss which would be a large net gain if not for the dearth of affordable housing. Home prices > 2X the national average and second only to Hawaii. Cali is responsible for 15% of US GDP.
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    Buying Naked Calls

    Dude, c'mon. Are you simply trolling? She administered her fund so that she was paid only on realized gains. She and her staff solved for the gains needed to exceed realized losses and in furtherance of hiding the unrealized losses. It's a monumental head-fvck and she should have done MAJOR...
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    Buying Naked Calls

    You need to get HBO.
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    Earnings Trading Journal

    All your short vols are belong to us!
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    Buying Naked Calls

    A "dropped on your head" thread for_the_win!
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    Buying Naked Calls

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    Buying Naked Calls

    One! Averaging on a lower vol-line is better than averaging on higher vol-line. That's a "no sh!t!" statement. There was no mention of adding. The guy has no idea what he is doing. He may have an alto that breaks glass, but he's r3tarded on the subject of volatility/trading. Two! If he adds on...
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    A Non-Correlated Strategy Trading Journal That Shows Profit

    raVar has no defense, so here is where he backpedals and implies it doesn't matter that he's clueless--as options are only a small fraction of his portfolio. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/trading-is-easy.321831/page-16#post-4961189
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    Mexican Drug Cartel Wipes Out Three American Families, Rapes Mothers, Burns Babies Alive

    It's over. The rest of the pedo-cultists are back in the US. They are our problem now.
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