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    Tradex Forex Journal

    approx -64% with the usual 100:1 leverage. So you need to make 300% just to break even, right?
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    ??? You are taking credit for a trade you didn’t do?
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    Oh minus means up on a long.
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    He’s down 100pips. That’s less than the SPX today!
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    how to hedge against the USD equity portfolio?

    If you spend in USD then you do nothing. If you don’t spend in USD then you convert to a currency you spend in.
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    how to hedge against the USD equity portfolio?

    Buy Puts or sell your position Everything else will create basis risk you won’t understand.
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    New guy and the new math ....

    the midmarket didn't change because: 1. the spread is really wide (20% of the underlying) 2. the vol is really high (making a 2% move in the underlying irrelevant) if you had a theoretical model, you would see a modest change in the fair value, but these variables would dwarf that change.
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    New guy and the new math ....

    When I get back to my desk I can tell you what happend
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    New guy and the new math ....

    If you listed the stock and the actual option and the dates traded this would be solved in 10 seconds
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    Ideas For Now-

    They said the same thing in 2009.
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    Tradex Forex Journal

    I haven’t traded forex in years. But I opine on things I don’t engage in actively. I learned that from someone in this thread.
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    My problem is that I know how to trade. Your problem is that you aren’t thinking. Think man, think!
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    How do you reconcile that your system produces two signals that implies a third but does not explicitly produce the third signal? I can only come up with one rational explanation but you denied that in an earlier post. This is a real question that if I’m right will make your system better. If...
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    your model doesn’t want you to be short A/C at all. How do you reconcile that? You’ve been trading for 20plus years and don’t get this basic contradiction in your own trading algorithm.
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    Your system put you in a EURCHF trade despite telling you there is no EURCHF opportunity. Of course only total amateurs would do such a thing.
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    maybe he should be selling options instead.
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    advantage to selling options?

    "To Put It Short" hahahahaha
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    advantage to selling options?

    Reminds me a hand I was playing at Foxwoods: I was big blind and the first guy after the blinds raised before he even looked at his cards. I had a 2-7 off suit and folded because of the raise. Flop was 7-7-2.
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    the new mantra "Systemic Racism" is unfounded BS

    But there’s enough of all of them that we have a problem in this country. That’s the definition of systemic racism.
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