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There’s always cash on the sidelines until there isn’t. Since I started my second career 7 years ago, multiples have gone up 2-3 turns as money pushes into smaller and smaller deals.

black scholes is just a framework. You can plug in any price and get an implied vol and vice versa. Black scholes says nothing about what the fair price/volatility is. It’s more like a Rosetta Stone that allows you to translate fast moving dollar prices to slower moving volatility prices.

Inflation, interest rates didn’t matter. It was all about the BRIC’s and emerging markets and commodities.

I don’t remember on the interest rate side. I do remember getting crazy levels on Brazil etf risk reversals and earning big on them because of the foreign currency.

In 2007 Brazil was running pretty high inflation and the forwards for options reflected it. However the currency appreciated a lot.

It didn’t in Brazil in the mid 2000s

Trump never championed that notion either. He focused on how the government would keep out Mexicans, refugees, and Chinese goods.

Trump didn’t campaign on peace with Russia. He campaigned on white identity politics. Your own post makes references to it.

Everyone is in favor of the government exercising more control as long as that control favors their opinion.

Witty.

So you will pull out your ar-15 and walk into a hospital to get your kid. Someone else with a gun will shoot you (because the nra is pushing guns everywhere). It will be all over the media that you are a right wing nut job who was planning a mass shooting. Everyone you ever knew will disavow you...

Success in life isn’t determined by the number of hours you work but by how effective you are in the hours you do. OP loves trading because it’s new to him and it creates dopamine hits. That will change and overtime he will find balance. He shouldn’t be worried.

abandon the options (don’t exercise them).

When you have a hedge it’s really important the hedge perform when you need it to perform. For that, you need the precision if you are spreading vol because the second and third order vol effects become the relevant ones.

If you want to be long vol for a hedge then don’t sell any vol against it. Those positions get very tricky.

Yes.

E*TRADE pro is a stand alone trading application for E*TRADE. It offers news services, analytics, account information, market information and trading. (Like tws or the ameritrade version) I haven’t used the news or analytics (as I use my own stuff) but the trading isn’t that bad. It’s easy to...

I thought 13f was only long stock positions.

I would love to see that screen. Thanks.

Bbg will tell you who owns which options? What screen is that on?