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    Are CEOs allowed to sell covered calls on stocks they own?

    I worked with the private client desk at my old firm a lot. The insiders who were overwriting were one of two flavors: they had sold their businesses to the parent organization and were paid in stock that they could not liquidate (often because it was hundreds of millions worth or they were...
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    25% tariff on goods coming in from Mexico announced

    Outside of rural villages in India, the caste system is essentially dead.
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    India now a 1st world country rules WH, tariffs incoming

    What is the straw man argument? South Carolina has lower wages and less environmental regulations than Massachusetts. Companies are growing in South Carolina and divesting from Massachusetts. It’s literally the exact same situation as india vs America. Yes. Lower costs in India hurt America’s...
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    India now a 1st world country rules WH, tariffs incoming

    The whole point of free trade is comparative advantage. By your logic red states should suffer higher taxes because they have weaker labor laws and less environmental regulations than blue states.
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    Why I Lost Money- IMO

    When I went to Africa last fall, I actually saw this. Lions and prey hanging out together Lion King style.
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    25% tariff on goods coming in from Mexico announced

    While the US talks about America first, China is busy buying up Africa.
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    Simply Astounding

    Even if there were other aliens you know how hard it would be for any of them to spot us? Our electromagnetic signature is tiny compared to the sun. So tiny that you (nor I) can really comprehend how tiny it is.
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    Size is edge?

    What’s the trade? You use CNY to buy crypto. You sell crypto to buy USD. You sell USD to buy CNY?
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    Why not just write OTM covered calls on your stocks

    Why would you sell the upside you should be betting on? If you aren’t betting on that upside, why are you Long the stock in the first place?
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    Why not just write OTM covered calls on your stocks

    Why would you be Long stocks you didn’t think would rally 20percent?
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    The US tariffs on China have been paid almost entirely by US importers: IMF study

    You are missing the point. Ok instead of cars think houses.
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    The US tariffs on China have been paid almost entirely by US importers: IMF study

    True - but technology gets cheaper because of investment in R&D not because of economic conditions. If a new Audi were going to be cheaper by 3percent next year, would you buy one today? Fuel is a bad example because the underlying is so volatile (outside of economic situations) so the fed...
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    Not a bad way to swing with options

    Without a view on volatility (magnitude and timing) of the move in the underlying there is no edge in trading options.
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    The US tariffs on China have been paid almost entirely by US importers: IMF study

    Tarrifs and inflation are two very different things. Inflation is good because deflation is terrible. Deflation puts the economy into a death spiral as no one has any incentive to invest today (tomorrow prices will be cheaper). That begets even cheaper prices tomorrow and the cycle becomes...
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    The US tariffs on China have been paid almost entirely by US importers: IMF study

    I know guys that own machine shops who raised their prices 25percent across the board whether the steel they purchased came from China or not.
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    Trump and Japan.

    So can Israel (who gives its citizens socialized healthcare while we give them more aid than any other country outside of Iraq and Afghanistan).
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    Dresser for trading standing

    Get a varidesk
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    What's Holding This Market Up?

    Good for you that you have two businesses. How big are they? What do you do? How many employees?
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    modeling the vol surface when missing (quite a bit of) data

    Sometimes it’s one. Sometimes it’s the other. Sometimes you move down the surface and vols don’t move. Sometimes you move down the surface and the atm vol stays the same (sticky delta).
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    What's Holding This Market Up?

    If the cost of manufacturing is small, what are the larger parts? Trump is very divisive but you don’t see the same protests around this as you have around his other actions. Bombing Mexico and China would be a good way to rebuild our manufacturing (plus we can build some more bombs too)...
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