/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>17482438
A lot of people losing a lot of money kek. In all seriousness I think it would deeply shake confidence in the economy, not just the equities market for years and years. So many boomers (who I don't completely hate) have so much tied up in "safe" bonds it's crazy, would significantly impact people's quality of life through the 2020s.

>>16346789
They're not really too-too complicated to use to hedge or even trade, only some of the math behind them. Watch the khanacademy videos on them and use optionsprofitcalculator and you should pick it up pretty fast.
The gist of them is that there are puts and calls. Buying a put means you agree to sell 100 shares of that stock at the strike price, buying a call means you agree to buy 100 shares at the strike. If you own a put you want the price of the shares to drop below the strike since you're then selling the shares for more than they're worth, when you have a call you want the opposite so you're buying the shares for less than they're worth. You can also take the opposite end of these deals by selling calls or puts, essentially betting the price won't go below/above the strike and the option contract will expire worthless. You can use options to hedge a position you have in case something goes wrong, dangerously speculate on price movements, or provide slow easy profits by taking unambitious bets that are very likely to end in your favor.
The way the value of options contracts is calculated looks extremely complicated, but is in reality only very complicated. Look up the Black-Scholes equation and how options Greeks interact with it once you understand the above.

>>13057863
google Robintrack
>>13057856
What kind of girls do you like? I'm legitimately curious