AlphaInvestor

Watches are for “posers”. I carry my timekeeper in my pocket as do most humans these days.

Oh dang, I don’t have a basement.

Many thought that the danger to the USA was Russia, China or maybe even North Korea. They were wrong. The real danger came from within.

Musk has taken control of a) federal payments, b) federal personnel, c) federal buildings, d) federal services. A near total invisible coup.

I think that the tariff warnings were actually a smokescreen to hide more nefarious acts. Essentially a coup at Treasury, OPM, and GSA by musks goons.

Being an astronaut is a skill that can be learned. Being an NFL quarterback is a skill that can be learned. Not all are cut out to be successful at all ventures.

Trading is hard. The technical aspects of it can be learned. The emotional aspects require a certain mindset that not all people have.

TOS runs on Mac. But RTD() only works in PC versions of Excel.

If you use ThinkorSwim you can retrieve option data (along with lots more) using RTD() in Excel.

It seems that the last few weeks some of the riffraff from x have started to arrive and spoil things. I hope @bsky.app take Blocks into account in their ranking algorithms.

Two additions on Friday.

A put credit spread (bull put spread) on $STNE for Jan 10th - STNE is a Brazilian fintech.

A cash secured put on $SLS for Dec 20th - SLS is a clinical-stage drug company focused on cancer treatments.

Note: I left Twitter to get away from the brain rot.
If you are going to post conspiracy theories or political attacks I am just going to block you. Problem solved.

Wrong platform! You want X.

Surely a Trail PE of -180.86 is a good thing.

Nice info. What is the source/website for this data?

If I do the PPUT strategy I will likely sell a further out put to reduce cost and theta burn. Likely aim to recover half the cost of the long put.

This paper, which replicates some of Merton’s work, has some interesting findings on several well known simple option strategies. I will investigate more and consider selectively applying the PPUT strategy.

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I added futures trading in 2018, mostly for hedging a substantial diversified stock portfolio. I maintain 85% of my portfolio in stocks, a small mutual fund allocation mostly for small caps and international exposure. The remaining 15% is the allocation I use for option and futures trading.

From 2013 to 2017 I was primarily an option seller. When VIX fell below 10 in 2017-2018 I had to totally relearn options, there was just no premium in selling options.

I started my investing career in 1987 entirely using mutual funds. I added individual equities as my portfolio and experience grew. In 2013, I started trading options, mostly cash covered puts. I soon realized I was using a lot of margin with cash covered puts so switched to put credit spreads.

I have seen research that stock market returns are best approximated using a Laplace distribution which more appropriately models the fat tails.