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If his son is not trading then what should the conclusion be?

They sell books.

What is the point of this thread if trading is a negative sum game?

R U thinking it would go above 84? It is expiration day.

AAPL is a stock, IWM is an index. Do you know which are the optionable stocks leading IWM on the down side?

I noticed the same thing, when I was looking at QQQ, SPY and IWM.

Shouldn't the observation rather lead to: in a pullback it does less and in a rise it does more when compared to a weaker ETF?

Is there a similar one for nasdaq-100? Which do you think would be weaker IWM or QQQ? What is the cost of the leverage in TZA? Do they leverage via puts?

The bottom was 142.03 + one cent.

The market is actually doing well given the circumstances, and seems to follow the efficient market hypothesis.

If the market follows the efficient market hypothesis, and taking into account the ex-dividend date, models are telling me that it is normal if SPY were to start trading between 142.03 and 142.37.

Which is the leader?

Why?

Who is the leader in diabetes?

I did not read carefully, but it strikes me that maybe something is wrong in the formulas (I looked only at the first one). In variance formula, shouldn't you square the returns, and center them if using N-1, or divide by N instead of N-1 if no centering?

There was the Jan "blend" and the March "blend" for WCG. I understand they are equal in % returns. Do they differ on the other three attributes?

Why?

1. Goog says Jan traded at $0.45. If it were possible to have 0.45 for Jan, which of the two trades (Jan vs. March) would have been better at strike 40? 2. If there was a strike at 41, Jan would have been priced at 0.56 if one assumes $0.35 as put price at strike 40. Which trade would have...

How would you rate/evaluate/assess/etc your understanding of volatility ( in absolute scale or in comparison to your understanding of other fundamentals related to short put trading)?

I became aware of your posts only recently. I like to analyze things and think about things, and read about how others analyze and think about the same thing. I find it interesting that the same thing can be looked at in a number of ways, and have different variants and implementations. A...