Markets, Trading, Thoughts
Rules and Risks
How the Pattern Day Trader rule is harmful rather than helpful. Butterfly spreads. Early assignment risk from short call options on ex-dividend dates.
Trading
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Markets, Trading
Up on escalators, down in elevators.
I've had a lot on my mind the past few days as I'm sure many others have had as well. As I am checking in with
Trading, Markets
Making Sense of Market Madness
Pension fund driven EOY/EOQ rebalancing? makes sense. Plunge protection team operations? Let's hope not. Algorithmically-driven predatory price discovery targeting protections put on by the retiree turned gambler? You betcha!
Blockchain, Markets, Trading
Bitcoin Futures. The Beginning of the End.
A digital currency created in order to eliminate greedy middlemen ultimately comes to be controlled by those very same middlemen because of the same greed.
Markets, Trading
The Psychology of Market Madness
In seven short hours, they'd been conditioned to think of the chips as ATMs that spat out twenties, and even though their rational minds knew better, their hearts were all telling them to corner the chip