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Very nicely done. You were interesting to listen to and provided some specifics behind your reasoning.

I’m thinking of coming out with a crypto in a few weeks myself. Hopefully I’ll beat my neighbor to it. I believe if none of the big boys, such as Goldman or JP Morgan get into this space, we’ll be fine.

You are so bent. That’s why we like you! Time for me to get out of the house. You too, if you are not.

I have, but the recyclers aren’t paying what they used to for crushed aluminum cans!

It pays to look at the different perspectives of various trader types. Take large hedge or pension funds, for example. Visualize trying to maximinize the return on investment of billions of dollars in assets. Some investment ideas go well, some don’t. Go through the intellectual process of...

Optimism is the best long term bet. In my mind, long term potential of an economy or even a global system is the availability of energy and other resources. With plentiful energy, we can purify oceans worth of water and extract minerals from plentiful low density ores. We can obtain food...

My trading personality does not do well with negative gamma trades. Have considered doing gamma scalping using near expiration long straddles, however. I am trying to put together multiple edges from several different trading methodologies in order to maximize returns, minimize risk, and...

Or it is evidence Trump just does not know who the Proud boys really are. That he blindly bought the media label they placed on the Proud Boys according to their anti-Trump narrative. It does show Trump does, in fact, denounce organizations that he believes are White Supremacist.

Conspiracy games are fun. I’ll play too. Trump was deliberately in infected with Covid-19 using a nanotech delivery system by a foreign power for the purpose of masking an assassination attempt. A second, chemically based attack using a similar nanotech system to the one mentioned earlier...

I’m using MES to dynamically hedge my option position because it is not practical to actively trade a 3-legged option position. However, why should I sit through periods of perceived temporary negative expectation with full exposure? I use scalping to adjust my exposure according to my current...

Account value up 1.74% on long ES 2-3-1 put spread, since closed. I am flat except a $200. lottery ticket ES put ‘fly entered near the close. My scalping around my put fly had a rough start, resulting in early scalping losses beyond by partial hedge costs. Later on, my scalping came on...

I assess news depending on how unexpected it is, how significant its impact, and whether the event has a defined outcome. I believe when the big professionals are surprised, little traders like myself have a short term advantage while they adjust.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are probably in panic mode. If the people start getting along, where does that leave them? And their platform? If racism dies, the Democrat platform dies with it, right? I can see Pelosi say to Schumer: “Chucky, we need a diversion”. “Any way we can...

Not sure how comfortable people will feel about maintaining their previous day’s long exposure over the weekend.

What would Trump say? “I prefer Presidential candidates who don’t get Covid”.

If Trump dies or has severe complications, maybe it will finally drive the point home to PPE deniers. Odds are high for Trump to have serious issues, as we know.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/08/what-happens-if-president-trump-contracts-covid-19/

Odds of serious complications or death for Trump is high. If they are going to do Chloroquine and zinc compound treatment, they better start now. Window of serious complication indication begins T+5 days from symptoms, If I recall correctly. I would imagine Pence would have better odds...

Here are some examples of the relationships between instruments I look at when looking at the lens of “Risk Environment”. Other realtionship lenses I look at are “Economic”, “Monetary” and “Geopolitics”. Top of mind, in no particular order, I look at the relative performance of silver to gold...

Many jobs in the US can be done well by someone with a 80 IQ or even lower. In relationships, EQ is probably more important for long term success. Those who come from broken homes have a higher chance of failing, Black or White. Propagation of a species and its long term success depend...