Do Option Sellers Have a Trading Edge?

[xelite777]

The reason I ask is because there aren't many choices if you're a US Citizen these days.

Well, they are basically all the same, you just need to stick with the Forex brokers who are registered with the NFA.

 

[MRBRETTONWOODS]

Well, they are basically all the same, you just need to stick with the ones who are registered with the NFA.

Not really, there is even a major difference between an actual ecn and a bucketshop, do you use an institutional brokerage or do you use IB?

 

[xelite777]

Not really, there is even a major difference between an actual ecn and a bucketshop

Yes yes, I know, some unscrupulous Forex brokers use every trick in the book to basically steal your money.

do you use an institutional brokerage or do you use IB?

I buy and sell currencies at airports currency exchange booths, of course!

Seriously, does it really matter who my FX broker is?

 

[MRBRETTONWOODS]

Yes yes, I know, some Forex brokers use every trick in the book to basically steal your money.



I buy and sell currencies at airport currency exchange booths, of course!

O.K, so you're not an ECP, but based out of the US, which means you're about assuredly using IB. No need to be vague.

 

[TskTsk]

Yes you are right again, prices at the supermarket and elsewhere are constantly decreasing.

At this rate, food will be given for free very soon.

And then, at some point in time, retailers will simply PAY US to take their merchandise.

Oh, the supermarket thing again? LOL. I'm sure bananas and tootsie rolls are great at hedging your USD exposure

 

[Brighton]

We need two more laws, similar to Godwin's Law (the appearance of Nazis and/or Hitler in an internet discussion):

- one to cover GOLD!/hard assets/the illegal Federal Reserve
- one to cover the Illuminati/the Bilderberg Group, et al

 

[Martinghoul]

Yes, and the weight of human history has said that only gold and silver have held "value".

Actually, I'd argue that a lot of things held "value" better than gold and silver. Picassos probably don't fare too badly on that front.

 

[xelite777]

Picassos probably don't fare too badly on that front.

Yep, Picasso's paintings were wildly used as a medium of exchange some 3,000 years ago.

 

[eurusdzn]

All theory aside , the post dot com bubble, 911, IGhanistan wars took much value from the dollar relative to yen and the euro (remember it was the "zero" in 1998)
80 somethingto the dollar.
But my point is that, even if the dollar hasnt lost value since the financial crisis
relative to those other currencies, the lack of US fiscal policy and Multiple US Fed QE
programs , causes the holder of dollars losses.
The spread between the dollar and assets that determine ones net worth ;, ok stocks, has steepend drastically so today one can redeem stocks for a lote more dollars.
This malinvestmemt that benefits a small , thouroughly complacent, group including our policy makers delays (completely ignores) any fiscal or monetary solutions and problems not addressed do become structural , the new normal, the NEW policy and the only way forward until.....
Point: dollar holders continue to be destroyed.

 

[paladinhgwt]

Oh and other countries are banging down our door trying to purchase our AA+ debt. Wait on second thought isn't the fed the one buying billions a month in debt???? Hmmmm this can only be good for the value of the dollar.