That part in italics can't possibly be right. There's no way a straddle will do equally well whether the index moves 1400 points up or 700 points...
What do government expenditures have to do with anything? They don't send you a bill for the expenditures, they tax you according to the tax law....
The situations when it makes sense to exercise an option are so rare that you may as well begin with the assumption that you should NEVER exercise...
I can understand that making a difference for a $30 stock, where zero is much, much closer than infinity. For an underlying as expensive and...
When you trade on a timescale of years or decades, the newspaper is as good as real-time quotes. I agree that the guy could use fewer fanbois,...
They're not. Except to the extent that you consider all taxation to be "punishment". People are rewarded for structuring their affairs in...
Ask them all you want, they're silent.
The cost to carry is much more visible on a 1400 strike than a 35 strike.
I am? Thanks for telling me. I'll have to write that down, or I'll forget. I guess if I favour taxing rich people (which I didn't even say, I...
As long as they stay silent, it's risk-free for him to claim that they hang on his every word.
I agree. We should reward people who are superstitious or who fail to plan well. A business owner promoting his own business interests? The...
There's only one K.C. Googler in the Kansas City phone directory.
Well now, that depends. Do the children own the family business, or did they simply w**k for it? People who w**k for a company don't earn the...
The tax increase he advocates isn't for charitable people like him. Charitable rich people can always find somewhere good to put their money....
I'm not sure why those sound like two different things to you. If you buy 100 shares of GOOG and the stock goes up and you want to sell, you...
If the dividend is larger than the time value, you should expect to get assigned.
Do you think it's fair to have to pay taxes just because inflation put a bigger number on the stuff you already owned? Or, for that matter, to...
It doesn't matter. Nonzero-sum is nonzero-sum.
A good intuitive understanding of how options w**k is more valuable than all the graphs, charts and software in the world. Why? Because a bad...
There is, but for heavily traded issues like the major indexes you'll probably see hundreds or thousands of contracts right on the bid/ask. Your...
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