he might be long the 20 and /or s 25 and short the 30's on a ratio with some stock and puts to meld it all into a cluster f that u would understand ,i used to work for him,he's always spread off,i was /am a directional trader, never liked the number crunching for options if i couldn't do it in my head ,not doubting your knowledge, days like this you could sell the oex 600 puts 200 times and take out 1/16 every half hourQuote from atticus:
If he "owns it" it's a long. In your example he'd be short the call backspread, and that's not long. It's more than semantics.
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he might be long the 20 and /or s 25 and short the 30's on a ratio with some stock and puts to meld it all into a cluster f that u would understand ,i used to work for him,he's always spread off,i was /am a directional trader, never liked the number crunching for options if i couldn't do it in my head ,not doubting your knowledge, days like this you could sell the oex 600 puts 200 times and take out 1/16 every half hour
Quote from atticus:
I met him in 1990 in the microhedge offices (May consulting) while he was in trouble in a pharma position. He was a market maker, sure. if you say you're long a stock, you should be long shares/deltas.
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