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Got it Sig, gonna try and find one of those MOOCs you mentioned and sign up. Thanks!!!

Oh wow, looks like that was fake news. That is good. That would have been horrible.

I know nothing about "yournews", I saw the link posted on another site. But they actually (apparently) at least post the actual document, and cite it...

https://yournews.com/2021/02/19/2033550/joe-bidens-dept-of-energy-blocked-texas-from-increasing-power/ Is that true? Absolutely horrible if so.

Srat sounds wrong to me off hand. But no issue with the diversification point.

So I ran some simple moving averages on Excel. Just simple moving averages. Like on SPY. But I tested everything from like 2 day moving averages (lulz) through 300 day moving averages. All the numbers sucked versus just buy and hold. Way worse upside, and the max drawdown was barely...

Yep. They need to shut their flapping pie holes and focus on not wasting taxpayers' money.

Thanks Sig! On option 1, I got it - the adjustment would just be taken into account in the futures price. Hence why futures price is (generally) spot + interest rate (cash and carry) adjustments over time, per your example. On option 2, my question was this (but I think I have it figured out...

Sig, thanks so much! Your example is crystal clear, I follow it 100%. Two follow up questions. 1. The first one is just a small technical question. Taking your example, what is the specific mechanism that causes the FFF currency to rise? So the lender borrows in FFF, then lends in dollars...

Wow, awesome thread. I had shorted some VIXY at high prices, made some money. But the lower VIXY went, and the more I made, my free cash, buying power, etc. kept going DOWN. I literally almost got margin called, had to sell the position and take the gain. This, and poor recent customer...

Got a advertisement from them in the mail. Apparently don't just picks stocks, but also have tools, including backtesdting tools. Anybody use the service or know anything about them? I've seen them around over the years.

Seems to be doing some nice, almost random, shiat.

Well I'm glad it has worked out for you thus far winstonwee.

Just remember, if popcorn goes to $3, and people start eating dirt because they can't afford $3 popcorn, the feds will say there is basically no inflation because said popcorn is no longer even being consumed and the price of dirt has only gone from .0001 cents to .00010001 cents....

OK, let's take what you wrote piece by piece. "ok stock dun go 1 way up, so i wouldnt want to sell a put when the stock make a new high or all time high, it look stupid right after i sell a put and it tank so i wait for a pull back?" But have you back-tested to see if "waiting for a pull-back"...

Spaghetti Code, interesting statement when you say SPY has been a bumpy road since 1993. Obviously, its gone way up. What do you mean exactly by that statement? Just more volatile than previously generally? Bigger pullbacks? Or what? Thanks.

Oh, I definitely see prices rising at stores and what not. They do do some voodoo on their CPI calculations and what not. Inflation will come back in a BIG way. I don't know when, but it will be a new kind of hurt for a generation that never experienced it.

OK then, back to your original topic winstonwee. Let me try and understand what you are thinking you are gaining there, and why is in large parts just a market timing thing. So the first step is waiting for the stock to pull back a bit. But, why? If the market appreciates on average over...

Thanks so much for all that Sig, I really appreciate you taking the time to type all that out. A few follow-up questions: 1. Looking at the attached link: https://www.investing.com/currencies/usd-chf-contracts So the current spot price of Dollars-to-Francs is 1.115 dollars to buy 1 Franc it...

I agree completely that if you cannot easily sustain a $45k loss you should not be writing calls. But let me ask you this - if you were THAT worried about the theoretically "unlimited" risk, why not just buy a waaaaaay out of the money call to protect you? When GME was at $20 I'm sure you...