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I found this whole admin settings where you can literallly customize windows for anything. It’s designed for IT departments to shut off games for example or fix screen savers. i bet this hits those registry entries.

What were you trading that you could see a listed trade? Most of these trade via OTC options and structures - often against the internal desk of the bank who then divvies up the risk and sells that off to hedgefunds.

yes. they are but they net debit is less than the cost of the SPX. So you give the company $100,000 to invest in the SPX with this cap and buffer, but the structure really costs like 99,200.

Buy an SPX zero strike call (OTC) Sell an SPX 1y 15% call Buy a SPX 1y 100%-90% putspread The whole structure receives a credit which is the profit to the company. The trick is that the client get the price performance of the SPX but not the dividends.

By definition buy and hold is not trading. So when someone mentioned "buy and hold" they are necessarily talking about an investment activity vs a trading activity. this is one of those stupid discussions that keeps coming up on EliteTrader: comparing buy and hold investing to active trading...

I remember you saying that. I bought ivol data in 2011. I believe they had a blended vol and forward calc but I’ve domounted (see I can use Unix terms too :)) the database.

no. It is a pyramid. Those with the best strategies and investment processes get the most capital and generate the highest dollar returns.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of millionaires and many billionaires who will disagree with #2.

It's not implied vols, it's implied borrow. Why don't you normalize the vols and calculate the implied borrow? That's a fascinating story in this underlying.

Quanto got himself banned for violating the purpose of the site. The mission of the site is to teach eachother how to trade. Quanto was spreading misinformation and when he was corrected refused to listen and continued to spread misinformation. Baron made his choice based on the fact that MANY...

if that happens where MSTR is the primary “bank” of bitcoin, you have recreated TradFi but with all the worst qualities and none of the good qualities.

The problem I have with the call spread is that the alpha leg is MSTR. It will sell off 50percent before bitcoin rallies 100. I agree. Amassing 200k bitcoin doesn’t mean anything if your share of that costs 2x .05 bitcoin you have claim to. Having that much bitcoin doesn’t give MSTR an edge or...

I would be in the trade except I’m getting terrible margin treatment

when you account for the opportunity cost of funds. That a future only requires a tiny amount of margin and the rest of your cash can be put into the risk free rate, it’s all the same. there is no guaranteed 10-15percent/year.

What’s the borrow at lightspeed?

being cryptic and vaguely threatening doesn’t reduce his credibility.

I was writing you a PM as you wrote this. I'm 99% sure my broker won't have shares.

options pricing 160percent through may. approx 30cents/day