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I saw this thread title and had to click on it. I trade option spreads and the last few weeks for me have been some of the best of 2016 so far. I kinda like this pattern of movement of late on the S&P.

I've traded spreads for many years and also scale out, but in a different way. I may start with a fairly wide spread, or overlapping spreads - let's say on ES and we open a 2000/2040/2080 butterfly. The first part of a butterfly (2000/2040) might be worth $28 when I put it on. I will enter an...

And you bought it. CNBC is so desperate to get you click on everything on their page. It's really sad. "Warren Buffett says THIS will make the Dow go to 100,000" "Expert says THIS ONE THING will cause the markets to drop sharply in coming weeks" I think the term is "clickbait".

I studied crowd behavior for many years as well, especially as it relates to market direction and feelings, fear/greed etc... I think there was a time when this worked, probably before the algorithms became so prominent. I feel like technology has drastically muted the effect of real and true...

I thought maybe a few of the serial conspiracy theorist posters here were behind it. I could name a few names, but I don't think I really have to.

There are numerous other things that would happen because of zero % interest rates that would cause giant disruptions in the markets. This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum. Rich - even generous rich - people often tend to forget how the rest of the world lives and works and all of the moving...

It may have been Jesse Livermore that said "when the school marm starts dancing on the table, it's time to leave the bar". To me, watching someone super aggressively buying DOTM options is that school marm.

You've been "selling puts for years" and your first question is how to report or deal with insider trading? I've missed something here.

Oh good. I was just about to pull the trigger on the 1000% guaranteed system he offered a few months back. Is that one still available?

I thought we were going below $20. I'm so confused. o_O

The above (Russia & China) plus the Saudis wanted to bankrupt the frackers and tar sands folks in the US by allowing the price to fall enough to run them outta business.

Another amazing strategy today? I should take the weekend and rent some extra space to store the giant piles of cash I'm going to make. :thumbsup:

Tesla tracks closer to the price of oil than the prospects of their products.

That's why I trade options, because I cannot predict direction.

I always like to think Paul Krugman is on the other side of my trades somewhere.

There's been a good deal of discussion in DC over the past few months - especially the last few weeks - about what a Trump Presidency would mean. The consensus from folks I talk to is that the country would immediately drop into a depression, followed by a significant and very rapid period of...

Market stability is part of their dual mandate. You can't predict the future any better than anyone else here - or at the Fed.

Good points. I tend to only "temporarily allow" for everything in NoScript unless it's something I know to be reputable. Otherwise I tiptoe in and only allow enough to see the content I'm after. I'll have to give uMatrix a look as well.

Get something like NoScript for Firefox as well. That tightens up the surfing experience beautifully and eliminates malware and viruses if you use it properly.

Just campaign talk... nothing will happen.