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Whole. Lee. SHEEAT! How did you find me?!?!?!? After all these years?!?!?!

This is hilarious. He has a bunch of snake oil salesmen over the years promoting their systems (to sell of course). They routinely talk about how they make huge returns (above 50% a year not being uncommon). He will say after each podcast that this just goes to show average investors can make...

Bump!

Thanks lytec, I'm a real noob, especially when it comes to this options stuff. How did you come up with those net credit numbers? Aren't you selling the closer in calls/puts, and buying the further out calls/puts? Looking at your screen shot, and going by the bids (when selling) and asks...

What puts and calls are you talking about in particular lylec305? What are you getting paid on the premium? Sorry if its in there somewhere.

Thanks everyone! Yea, I meant an actual spike. So, I'm not talking about a situation where the VIX spot is at 17, future is at 17.50, spot drops to 12, future only drops to 16. That seems like it would happen all the time given the relative insensitivity of the out months. I was just trying...

Thanks Martinghoul! I'm with you on futures, sorry, was referring to the options.

My money is on Amazon.

One thing that you guys taught me is how VIX futures (and options) at far out months are a lot less sensitive to spot VIX changes than the early months. This makes sense given that VIX is mean reverting, and the futures are European style (maybe just the former does the trick and the latter is...

Very interesting reading, thanks everyone! I'm going through the posts a second time, but a few follow-up questions. I was really thinking about market makers in stocks, but I'm curious if they are handled differently in other markets. So I see the market maker makes money on the bid-ask...

Oh I agree zdreg about regulation, it just seemed to me that the bid/ask spread would be the sort of thing, absent manipulation, would basically take care of itself. In other words, if the bid ask spread is 1 cent, you have a very liquid market. If its TOO liquid, and the market makers can't...

Thanks m22au yea i googled it and saw same. that high inflation brings down those nominal rates real fast!

Thanks Quiet1 and nonlinear5. Sounds like its just some funky FS ranking. I'm just saying that any account that just earns 2% annually IMO should natually not show up on any kind of reputable leaderboard, no need to penalize it further. But if FS has some rankings where it does show up as a...

Read the link, I am no expert but program just sounded silly. Let the market work out the bid ask spread.

Good nominal rates on the bonds, but what is their inflation rate?

Haha I was wondering the same thing. How would they ever make any real money taking so little risk!

Quiet1, curious, why would they penalize for a compounding bank account like structure? Naturally you would think the return on such a structure would be relatively low given low drawdowns and consistent profits - so why penalize it futlrther than is already reflected in the returns? Thanks!

But how ajacobson? What is their "edge" they are paying for?

Wow, thanks a ton ajacobson. Obviously, I'm not going to become a MM any time soon. Just curious - you pay all this money, you are out all this capital, what benefit do they get? Thanks!

Hahaha awesome.