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  1. mervyn

    Dedollarization Accelerating

    Things that we don’t make or have, such ad rare earth, will have to make other forms of payments. The Fed would end up buying all the bonds because all the sudden no one wants it.
  2. mervyn

    Auto-exercise question

    yes they will, provided your margin is sufficient to take the assignment.
  3. mervyn

    Daily Crude Chat

    For CL cash or physical settled products, I’d only do buy the dip, 65-68 is a reasonable range to enter, otherwise I won’t touch it. I usually just allocate 1-2 contracts overnight margins to short puts for the premium, have too much instruments to watch, busy enough screens.
  4. mervyn

    Dedollarization Accelerating

    methheads, see this is how xi doing the business. Argentina has one ball, falkland island. china is supporting their claim. as crazy as milei sounds, he can’t bend over. https://www.reuters.com/world/argentinas-milei-thanks-chinese-president-softening-tone-2023-11-23/
  5. mervyn

    Daily Crude Chat

    I had 1 contract 65-68 put rolling every three business day. Sometime I just forgot the front month is actually a month prior.
  6. mervyn

    I need to find a licensed fencing contractor in my area...

    why licensed? couple of amigos will put up the fence inexpensively.
  7. mervyn

    Trillion Dollar Bailout: What Xi Really Wants From Biden

    TSLA’s tech is commercial, at best is proprietary, don’t think it is the best. Everyone can make EV cars these days, even the Vietnamese.
  8. mervyn

    Trillion Dollar Bailout: What Xi Really Wants From Biden

    MCD China was sold to a local group back then, Carlye was just taking role. Since then MCD China doubled the store numbers. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/dealbook/mcdonalds-china-citic-carlyle.html My sense is that they dislike hot money to treat their stock market as ATM, and...
  9. mervyn

    Trillion Dollar Bailout: What Xi Really Wants From Biden

    is this guy smoking weeds while writing? his source is probabaly some youtubers lol. if there is a war over taiwan or south china sea, then 1 trillion economic damage is not unimaginable?
  10. mervyn

    Bought a fancy new Dell and it sucks

    pulled a trigger on precision mobile 7670 default model with i-7 and 4k screen upgrades and sodimm, good value performance ratio i hope.
  11. mervyn

    Selling Options for passive income by Robert Kiyosaki

    waiting it out is the hard part.
  12. mervyn

    Selling Options for passive income by Robert Kiyosaki

    Premiums are always putting to use, financing July calls on WOLF and a bourbon. And a gift to the wife, probably under 5k, so no risky trades until Jan next year.
  13. mervyn

    Selling Options for passive income by Robert Kiyosaki

    What you are missing is that this is not the only trade I am doing, nor the only symbol, cisco being another.
  14. mervyn

    Selling Options for passive income by Robert Kiyosaki

    as mentioned, i am running out of available cash, tied up in arm and tsla puts. this money is from available margin. need to see where it trades after this fake holiday rally.
  15. mervyn

    Selling Options for passive income by Robert Kiyosaki

    Sold 25 $65 baba puts end of the year, premiums are juicy.
  16. mervyn

    Dedollarization Accelerating

    Dollar is strong as long as our influence travels. Watching big mac index is a joy, assuming every kid in every country eats a burger or two from time to time, and MCD profit margin remains constant in every country. https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
  17. mervyn

    Dedollarization Accelerating

    laugh at your own peril. i said it many times, every country is avoiding to use dollar to settle if it can, even though dollar is still a reference price for major commodities. bartering is the best settlement mechanism before currency, it still is. goods to goods exchanges are the easiest.
  18. mervyn

    Selling Options for passive income by Robert Kiyosaki

    if your risk appittie is much, so be it. we killed baba's acqusition of western union not so long ago. some people just don't want the us market to be accessed by non-us entities.
  19. mervyn

    Selling Options for passive income by Robert Kiyosaki

    doens't really matter, the chinese retails have no access to its listing, some non-china buyers stpped in.
  20. mervyn

    Selling Options for passive income by Robert Kiyosaki

    BABA is an US/Japan company operating in China, just look at its shareholder strucuture, it is ours.
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