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    Naked puts and volatility margin

    You can only reduce your margin by reducing the risk on the trade. If you are reg t, work the formulas for the margin call. If you are Portfolio margin, work the formulas for that.
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    Backing Away/Options Quotes

    Agreed. If the OP listed the option and the time stamp of the order and his trade time stamp this could get resolved in 15 seconds.
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    IB offering fractional shares, is this the top?

    There’s no loyalty in this business. The moment the smart kids get some money, they will ditch Robinhood. However, until then, all those college kids generate some payment for ordeflow (whether explicitly or implicitly)
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    If someone accidentally sell stocks for wrong price, is possible reverse the trade ?

    I believe there are no protections in the pre and post market.
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    Synthetic Equity (Delta1 Desks)

    Market makers and they are trading 100s of thousands of contracts. If someone traded against you it’s because either 1. Their models saw edge in trading against you or 2. You are reducing risk against a position they don’t want.
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    Hertz Files for Bankruptcy After Rental-Car Demand Vanishes

    In 2015, there was talk that their fleet was too old and it would take billions to update it. That's about when Icahn invested in it.
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    Abolishing the Like feature

    I’m not sure you’ve actually added anything constructive in this post.
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    Elite trader zoom room

    a shoot the shit chat and a super serial chat.
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    Abolishing the Like feature

    Likes were created to avoid people polluting threads with “+1”
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    What are your thoughts on the new 2% rule recently implemented by Topstep Trader on funded accounts?

    Probably to make it easier to understand traders who have an edge vs those who are lucky and caught a big trend. The latter will show pnl similar to a guy who grinds it out everyday.
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    Billionaire MAGA Fan Peter Thiel Has Had It With Trump’s COVID-19 Response

    Why didn’t Deep Throat reveal himself during watergate?
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    Buying inverses premkt today 11May -- go Bears

    For a thousand dollars/hour, you can find out how his $200 pnl was achieved.
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    dest's discord group--tickers, structuring and pnl

    You mean 3xx calls
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    A London-based trading house bought 250,000 barrels of oil during the historic plunge below $0 and l

    Its manipulated by brokers who are stealing their commodity customers’ strategies. This extra capacity ensures they can trade.
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    Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its Goldman Sachs stake by 84% last quarter

    He was buying a railroad and had a derivatives trade blow up against him. His credit rating was cut. This time he has no such constraints. He’s full of dry powder, or so it seems.
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    Betting on a big move in the SPX in 2 years time

    No. It was because it’s hard to predict when a vol spike will happen.
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    Betting on a big move in the SPX in 2 years time

    But ruffer spent hundreds of millions waiting for the event. They publicly stated they won’t do this strategy again.
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    World's worst air - Ulaanbaatar the capital of Mongolia

    I went to ulaanbatar in 2011. It seemed very clean.
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    Using implied volatility to estimate range

    .256*sqrt(162/255)*underlying price
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    Using implied volatility to estimate range

    Iv* sqrt(trading days/255)* price
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