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It's even more insidious, I know activists in your country and they not only abhor the current support for Israel's genocide but they are terrified of their activism being criminalized under anti-nazi laws. How ironic.
And puts are highly manipulated by MMs so you have to really study the chain and how it behaves before you have a chance to buy the contracts at a fair price. MMs will flood the market with contracts and devalue yours even when the price is moving in your direction. I highly suggest people think twice about trading options, they are best used as hedges for large positions during particularly vulnerable periods.
I’m not convinced. If you think you know what the fair price is for a put, then you can bid that price. If you don’t think you know what the fair price is, then you shouldn’t be trading options.
There are reasons for not trading options, but the main reason is “you know less about price movement than you think you do”.
Realistically, if you don't have the volume to be a market maker, there's no point bidding anything except the current market price. Either the price is higher than your bid, and your order won't fill (so why place it?) or the price is lower than your bid, and you should expect the market knows something you don't.
> Either the price is higher than your bid, and your order won't fill (so why place it?) or the price is lower than your bid, and you should expect the market knows something you don't.
There is no risk-free way to trade. You can place a market order and guarantee execution, bearing the risk that you get a bad price. You can place a limit order, and guarantee price, bearing the risk that your trade doesn’t execute.
It sounds like you’re starting with the assumption that you don’t know whether the options are undervalued or overvalued, and if you start with that assumption, yes, the correct answer is don’t buy or sell the option (barring some other reason to buy or sell). Duh. But the reason the market “knows something you don’t” is because it’s full of people doing research. Sometimes, the person doing the research is you, and you have an idea of where the price will go. That’s what an edge is. When you have an edge, you can make money, but maybe not very much and not very reliably.
Where it gets ridiculous is when people speculate with SPY options or dumb shit like that. The reason why speculating with SPY is so ridiculous is because it’s just so unlikely that you could get an edge with SPY. But in general? Yes, it’s possible to get an edge.
Trades always execute at exactly the market price. A limit order says that if the market price reaches your limit price, execute the trade. At that moment, your limit price will equal the market price.
That is technically correct but uninformative. If there’s a point you’re making, I can’t figure it out.
You earlier said that there’s no point in bidding anything but “current market price”, and that’s what I was responding to. Limit orders can execute at current market price but they can also execute at some future market price. It’s ok to place limit orders, they just have different risks from market orders.
It would be more helpful to say don't buy options once the trade is obvious. As soon as something has hit the FOMO phase and IV skyrockets and all strikes cost the same, that's a sign you're too late and might want to bet against your thesis or use a different instrument. The financial shoggoths do a reasonably good job ensuring there's no free money. However they're obligated to trade regardless of conditions and sometimes that's their weakness.
I think it’s possible they already have nukes and want to wait for Israel to over extend themselves so that they can use them for a first strike with maximum efficacy. They’ve done a lot for Russia. The idea that they don’t have nuclear armament is somewhat hard for me to believe.
What you argue is a non-sequitur and regardless of case law really makes no sense when the spirit of the action is to replicate something. Reasonable people would say that replicating and disseminating code with the express purpose of avoiding copyright is a violation of copyright and why it exists in the first place.
Just because something is trivial enough to copy does not mean it was trivial to conceive of and codify. Mens rea really does matter when we are talking about defrauding intellectual property holders and stealing their opportunity.
"Reasonable people would say that replicating and disseminating code with the express purpose of avoiding copyright is a violation of copyright and why it exists in the first place."
But then how can the FSF reimplement AT&T utilities? The FSF didn't invent grep. They wrote a new version of it from scratch under a different license.
Yes the entire enterprise and legal precedent is full of shit with intellectual property law being abused left and right. For example, I don’t think Google should have been able to copy the Java API for Kotlin/Android. Java should have just died and everyone would have been better off. By making copyright more weak, free software reaps what it sews.
I love FOSS but I hate that it’s been used to replicate existing code or serve as a way to outsource corporate tech debt. The shadow of profit looms over it all.
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