Dude, you're addressing a monkey. The guy doesn't understand moneyness or intrinsic value. You think that he's going to respond to you about a synthetic call? C'mon. You may as well address the dude in Latin. Let it go and take a walk.
The point I am trying to drive home to him, her, it, is that he keeps picking on complex options strategies and the people that talk about them on the forum, while admitting he is a simple trading person.
I figure if I just be like water, as Bruce Lee quipped, he will stop his shenanigans and downplaying the value of the things that you and others teach about complex setups by slowly eroding his mind. There's a method to my madness.
Yeah, it doesn't always work, but I am impelled to try, heh.