Looks like Chuck LeBeau's site will start up again....
I happen to grow corn, have pigs and hens and even own GE stock. All these things create wealth but the futures and options contracts that I use...
good post
This is not entirely the same situation I was referring to in my post, though your point is valid. When considering the economy as a whole and...
Some people on this thread are confusing two entirely different terms: Market Efficiency and Zero Sum Game. The futures markets are by...
How much of their success is marketing I wonder? How many traders and funds go unnoticed simply because they are quiet and enjoy their privacy?
Everyone, thanks for your comments. As I posted before, I talk things out as I try to understand them - especially early on as those who posted...
whitster, Would you mind sharing more on this? My thought is that there must be more opportunities in stocks (there being > 5,000 of them) than...
Riskarb, What's your understanding? You seem like an option specialist and I'd like to understand this better.
After further consideration, you are right. Since the options that make up the index change as the price of the S&P changes. The idea is...
Options on the VIX are really options on options, a.k.a 'Compound Options'. This is really cool because up to now, compound options have only been...
Another thought: The VIX futures price does not reflect the "expected future" spot price of the VIX alone. Rather, just like any other...
This actually has me on the sidelines for the moment. What will the VIX options reflect? - The forward or the spot? Again, from the CBOE...
Whitster, I don't take it that way at all. It is good to know who is speaking from success or just from wishful thinking. And assuming you are...
Yes, they certainly - which has me dusting off old textbooks looking up option pricing formulas. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, Granville
Given that when one person buys a futures contract, someone must sell it to them. (One side makes delivery of the underlying at expiration, one...
Another random thought.... Whereas forward contracts are often arb'ed, options are not (they are rather 'priced'). Therefore we could see the...
Nkhoi, Could you explain the "least square" moving average in your chart?
Thanks KTM on your explanation of SPAN. You comments above make me question why futures contracts follow the underlying so often. An obvious...
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