This is more of a meta/strategy/why thread rather than pure "sell vertical spreads and ye'll be rich" tactics, though I'm a veteran on those too. Veteran as in can they kill you: definitely, and not much beyond that.
Short presentation for those who don't know me already: I live in the 2'nd most important city (from a $$$ point of view, although at 10x less population than the capital we're almost equalling them in terms of $$$
of an Estern European country. I never considered moving out of here because why the fuck? City is 2000 years old and guys who manage to live here manage to live anywhere, so why go elsewhere NOT TO BE ABLE to do WHAT I'M NOT ABLE TO DO HERE in the first place? 
My strategy for digging myself out of the shithole that's humanity today is very simple: change the way of humanity. You don't have to be quants like me (upcoming PhD in mathematics, graduated the most mathematical field available at the Universities in the city where I was admitted 1'st, passed on pure physics because I only got admitted 2'nd there
) to understand that steerig humanity towards more years of living in better conditions cost a helluva lot of energy. Energy we don't have today, even if you'd ransack and plunder all the rich guys of the world, sorry to say to the communists simple minded.
But it can be produced, given we allocate the proper resources to it. Anyways, it's obvious if someone were capable of doing this, I wouldn't be living in the shithole that's today's world. So outside of "democratic" phantasies like voting for one or the other, there's the autocratic way of building me a fortune, making sure it's properly guarded by the institutions in place be them "democratic" or not, then use it to change the world according to my view.
I'll build my way up by taking a bite of the $1 quadrillion that's the derivatives market.
Those of you who are interested can get an early preview on what that'll look like in 1-2 months. Free on GitHub, though you should not just expect but understand energy's not free, otherwise we wouldn't be here.
Short presentation for those who don't know me already: I live in the 2'nd most important city (from a $$$ point of view, although at 10x less population than the capital we're almost equalling them in terms of $$$
of an Estern European country. I never considered moving out of here because why the fuck? City is 2000 years old and guys who manage to live here manage to live anywhere, so why go elsewhere NOT TO BE ABLE to do WHAT I'M NOT ABLE TO DO HERE in the first place? My strategy for digging myself out of the shithole that's humanity today is very simple: change the way of humanity. You don't have to be quants like me (upcoming PhD in mathematics, graduated the most mathematical field available at the Universities in the city where I was admitted 1'st, passed on pure physics because I only got admitted 2'nd there
) to understand that steerig humanity towards more years of living in better conditions cost a helluva lot of energy. Energy we don't have today, even if you'd ransack and plunder all the rich guys of the world, sorry to say to the communists simple minded.But it can be produced, given we allocate the proper resources to it. Anyways, it's obvious if someone were capable of doing this, I wouldn't be living in the shithole that's today's world. So outside of "democratic" phantasies like voting for one or the other, there's the autocratic way of building me a fortune, making sure it's properly guarded by the institutions in place be them "democratic" or not, then use it to change the world according to my view.
I'll build my way up by taking a bite of the $1 quadrillion that's the derivatives market.
Those of you who are interested can get an early preview on what that'll look like in 1-2 months. Free on GitHub, though you should not just expect but understand energy's not free, otherwise we wouldn't be here.
