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you are being lazy here and pushing all the work on me (whose trying to help you). good luck figuring this out. ;)

This shouldn’t be pulling teeth. Put all your transactions related to this clearly and in order with all the prices. Then work through how they came up with the math. You aren’t ready to trade real money if you can’t provide this basic information.

How much you paid or sold the option for.

Maturity, strike and price? And buy/aell

What was the options trade?

The returns were a lot more variable for sure. Overall the model worked when information flowed freely for example Cash equities traders getting info on cds flows. I’m not sure the embedded desks ever left. Sle would know better as I left the industry just as volcker was being implemented. I...

No. Prior to 2008 prop desks were like weeds. There were everywhere at banks. Virtually every trading desk would have a prop trader. Prop trading produced high return on capital and was an easy way to juice returns without having to build a better customer desk. Plus Goldman was really good at...

When I had the service I would find a couple of trades a year. Like here. Or other news/market data sources.

Quality argument. And yet you are offended by someone who said “STFU”

Now tripling down.

This was possibly the stupidest post ever written on elitetrader and then the poster doubled down on the assertion!

It's a tough career and I would not recommend anyone do it as their soul source of income (as a retail trader).

That pretty much sums up the career of a professional trader.

A Guinness widget

Journalists don’t work for free. And Bloomberg actually writes good original articles. When searching for news on a company I will choose the Bloomberg written articles first.

You’ve asked a lot of questions. We’ve even PMed about options trading. Glad to see how ungrateful you are to this site for getting the answers you needed.

Edge is an inherent advtange you have over everyone else. It makes the playing field unlevel. There are three legal edges: Finance costs (big banks) Access to investment opportunities (buffet getting calls when blue hip companies need his investment for confidence) Information (sac and hedge...

Jamie dimon Sang Weil Tiger woods Many people at Black stone Many people at renaissance tech The old ceo of aig The old ceo at occidental petroleum

It’s the sword used to kill Napoleon dynamite at the battle of the bulge in 1023ad. Totally authentic.

You could look at fires / mile. But would that change the numbers by a factor of 200 (based on sigs source) to change the conclusion?