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Another question arises how much economical sense it makes to invest into the assets of a foreign country if you believe that the currency of this country will depreciate? Is it worth taking the additional risk of offsetting your assets price risk by selling this currency using the huge...

I don't understand your suggestion that your strategy will give the exposure of stock in EUR. What you'll get is the portfolio of $1000 worth of stock and $1000 invested in EUR. If your stock's price in $ remains flat and EUR rises by 10% against $ after closing your positions you have $1000...

The broker pays for the stock and the trader pays the interest on the borrowed money at least temporarily. There is no need for the broker to liquidate the position in a urgent manner because those are not the naked options and not all the money borrowed from him is at risk. Isn't that what...

Why does a broker go about closing the stock position if in case of the spread his risk didn't change after the assignment? The risk remains the same after the assignment as it was at the time the spread was opened: the stock position is hedged by the long option. This makes little sense...

It's not eatable but it can be used to buy eatable products. In case of the weak economy they are likely to be imported from abroad. In the case of global recession gold, silver and paper money are equally useless. Only bread and butter would have a value.

Or as any other country with fiat currency for this matter. It's more tied to the economy strength than to the real assets. On the other hand people can always buy gold and silver on the market.

Dollar might not be tied to the gold and silver but it tied to the other factors like GDP growth and cost of borrowing (interest rates). One can hardly make the claim that there are no US assets that could back up the buying power of the dollar.

What about government bonds? Will they be next?

What's needed then is to start the poll on IB connectivity issues. As for cpu utilization by Java in my opinion the Java implementation is too heavy to use it in a trading application.

Why won't you just build a diversified portfolio of the far out long calls instead.

I believe leverage is even higher for the outright futures traders ( their margin requirements are lower) than for the option writers.

Isn't the maximum loss from selling the naked puts equal to the loss of the equivalent long position in underlying?

Too bad IB does not follow strictly the SPAN margin requirements.

In terms of oil s&p is dirt cheap. Maybe good time to buy s&p.

Maybe interacting with the newbies and getting their feedback helps him improve his trading strategies.

Because he enjoys doing it and you don't. Matter of different personalities.

One thing is for sure, people like him are very rare to come across.

The one who teaches others is he doing it for the money?

I would be much more concerned if he held dual US-Iranian citizenship.

If your debt comprises 6.4% of your total net worth it's not that bad.