/biz/ - Business & Finance

First for AMRS mooning

2ND FOR LEVERAGED RETIREMENT IN A DECADE

THREADLY REMINDER THAT DIVIDENDS ARE YOUR FREN

This one's dedicated to the golden bulls

still here

Alright, so here is the options profit/loss for those you who went on the straddle life on SNAP with me, based on my entry (12.5 8/17): http://opcalc.com/goEQ

The bounds are a move of 50%, which would be a repeat of earnings beat 2/6/2018. The most likely move is 30%, 16.70 & 8.99. An upwards move of only 14% will result in a breakeven; likewise, a downwards move of 24% will result in breakeven. These breakeven values are for ON EXPIRATION. Move should be complete by the 15th at latest, based on previous movement on earnings. Based on current market price (Close today should be used for calculations going into earnings).

>Values are %Gain/Loss

Will HMNY make me a millionaire

MID-TEENS.

I bought some EKSO
I want the EKSOskeleton to be real

HABT TO THE MOON AND BEYOND!!!!!!!!

>>10576628
Based HABT

GSKY actually mooning. Not too late to get in for ER moon shot next week.

Long American oil and gas, short everybody else?

>>10576614
It's the next Bitcoin, bro

nth for choke-fucking and impregnating Reluctant Kneepads Girl

uh oh
842.2 broke
guess me long

NWL has been thoroughly fucked all the way down to 1st support
will re enter now

>>10576599
I'm not familiar with straddle. How does your call/put look like above?

Earnings Casino this week

>>10576645
Only way to long US oil and gas is through midstream MLPs or like, frack sand companies.

You could long midstream and fracking contractors and short actual brent oil. Sounds like one of the lunatic fucking strategies a real oil speculator guy would do and make a shitton of money off.

>>10576599
Please keep posting stuff like this, it's educational.
>>10576621
Didn't know we had a gentle/m/an in here.
AMD and Sprint climbing. This is great.

>Bilibili app (beta edition) download ranking on iPhone app store last month
So chilling effect is a thing in China too?
And how retarded are they that requested removal of the app's official version but leave the beta edition untouched

>>10576658
Straddle is when you buy both calls and shorts so you lose money in both directions when it trades flat and all your options expire out of the money.

>tfw I missed the HMNY moon mission.

>>10576661
>>10576651
way me feel when being choke fudged one way believe for after life
why would human body make strangulation + loss of consciousness pleasurable unless it protecting something !?

>>10576681
It's just not chilling, Bilibili has been fucking over its users pretty heavily

>>10576676
Anon if it works it'd be fucking fantastic, a homerun.

>>10576695

HMNY holy fuck lol

For anyone interested in oil prices.
https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts

>>10576668

thanks nigga

>>10576658
A straddle is when you purchase call & put contracts same strike & expiration. It is used for when you expect a large move in the underlying. You lose money when the underlying trades flat/sideways (does not have a big move upward or downward).

fucking TVIX today, jesus

>TVIX

hahahahahahha

when is the ALT pump comin?

>>10576719

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>10576693
It's /biz/ memeing HMNY into HMNH.

>>10576668
>ODP earnings
Gonna be a shitshow. Can't wait.
>>10576690
I get the basic concept, but I'm trying to duplicate what you did for educational purposes and failing. I see you're doing a 12.50/12.50 that looks like it expires Aug 17th. Prices not correct?

>>10576731
>>10576736
What is even causing it? Nothing seems to be pumping that hard.

>>10576764
Your range is too small. Click 'More Output Options' and increase the range.

>>10576730
So as long as it doesn't stay flat, you can make money? This shit looks like financial wizardry to me.

>>10576789
but it COULD stay flat enough

Is there any chance of short term futures going up?

>>10576789
It needs to move pretty far for a straddle to make money, it's just that snap is likely to move far enough

there's also a strategy called the Iron Condor where you make money if it doesn't move enough

>>10576785
it doesnt need a market pump, VIX has a downward bias and its a nothingday so

>>10576695
its ultimate , usually cum when she starts freaking out and wanting less choking

>that look of utter terror when she cant breath and im not letting go
>replaced 2 seconds later by ultimate joy as i finish and it drips out of her

Literally heaven
there is no feeling in the world that comes close


anyways long SPY, its going to the moon

>>10576807
Just buy before close tomorrow and you'll most likely get a 100% return on your money at open wednesday

>>10576788
I'm an idiot.
Yeah, that'll do it.

>>10576793
>>10576807
>Iron Condor
>look it up
Unreal. This shit is fucking cool.

>>10576808
-5.8% and counting seems like a big change for a flat day

>>10576809
Are you they guy that vacuum sealed that chick and then refused to let her out till she passed out?

AMD mooning

>>10576819
Options are so much fun. Also you'll lose an unbelievable amount of money when you get started so be careful

>>10576828
Nope, thats pretty normal for the golden bull
Im pretty positive it will go to 9 as the spx reaches 3k

>>10576596
nice way to start the week

ADD WEBULL TO THE OP
IT'S SUPERIOR TO ROBINHOOD IN EVERY WAY EXCEPT OPTIONS
also
>HMNY

>>10576789
Again, you're betting on the underlying moving A LOT. In the case of SNAP is needs to move in excess of 14% up or 24% down. SNAP averages 30% on ER. More risk is applied due to Implied Volatility increasing (IV Crush). The "trick" is to get in a trade that is undervalued by the market. This becomes increasingly difficult as earnings approach.

>>10576832
>using a bag when i have perfectly good hands
>not feeling every single beat of her heart

nope

>>10576809
>no feeling comes close
Sticking ecstasy and meth up your ass

>>10576854

the fuck

>>10576854
>IT'S SUPERIOR TO ROBINHOOD IN EVERY WAY
It's owned by chinks, and I dislike and distrust chinks.

>>10576789
sorry, correction, I wrote that wrong.>>10576856

>More risk is applied due to Implied Volatility decreasing rapidly (IV Crush)

IV Crush occurs when the event that is being speculated about occurs (in this case, earnings)

>>10576842
I realize that, which is why I'm sitting here like a brainlet wojak watching this shit being done in awe.
>>10576856
>betting on the underlying moving A LOT
During ERs don't stocks usually move alot either up or down, making it a good idea to plan out your options trading before an ER?

>>10576828
Didn't some anon say to short volatility couple days ago? I always stay out of that shit since it takes forever to settle funds and the best price changes are like, 20% on a threat of nuclear war.. Investors are undeterred by risk to the US market.

VIX and it's derivatives are boring and gay, basically is what I'm saying.

holy shit AMD im cumming

>>10576890
>it's chinese
Whenever somebody mentions anything China business related, I think of this long wall of text.

>>10576614
I hope it gets delisted and added to the boneyard of your portfolio.

>>10576854
>using a chink owned service.
no

>>10576907
Yes. This is where IV comes into play. Implied Volatility nearly always has a steady increase as earnings approach. If you purchase too early you will get absolutely crushed by theta decay, even if the stock moves flat. It is a risky, tricky business.

looking to sell a strangle in AMD at 16/23 for september. wish me luck

>>10576935
It's probably related to Intel being downgraded again. Intel stocks don't seem low enough to buy and hold.
Think AMD will stabilize at 20 dollars per share end of Q4 or is this too conservative a price?

>>10576936
tl;dr

Is it possible to buy a straddle on robinhood for SNAP today or am I too late?

Who else making tons of bucks on AMD?

>>10576985
Chinese are notoriously sketchy

theres no greater pleasure in life, than watching bearfaggots get btfo into silence

>>10576819
there is also the glorious Iron Butterfly. It is a lot like the condor; profit under same conditions. But the zone is smaller, and thus, the potential is greater.

>>10577003
No shit. Don't need a long ass wall of text to know that.

>>10576994
You could, but IV is at 130% now (12.5 8/17)

>>10577022
So the move would have to be huge to overcome, correct?

>>10577022
I just took a look at 8/10 contracts and the IV is at 200%

>Holy Hell

>when your divs portfolio is at $99,250

wat do to celebrate when it eventually breaks $100K?

>>10577040
You can make easy money selling naked puts

>>10576994
would rather take this trade instead

>>10576985
Anon businessman bought chinese steel for cheap finds out it's cheap for a reason.
Chinese only believe in one thing, family ties. They can and will backstab each other.

>>10577059
Is that tasytrade platform?

NWL literally cant not have a bounce from here
22 for gods sakes

>>10576978
Good luck.

>>10577053
how did ou become rich

parents money?

Are we fucked?
Should we be buying treasure bonds instead?

>>10577078
Looks like it, I want to start using them. Fuck robinhood.

BUY WESTERN UNION RIGHT THIS INSTANT
THIS IS YOUR 100% TRADE FORECAST

>not using AMD gains to buy BWEN

>>10577078
TastyWorks

>>10577009
How long have you been options trading? Some of this looks like you have to keep getting burned to get a real understanding of and develop an instinct in.

>>10577089
$30K was from inherited stock from grandfather

the rest is just saving. i'm in my mid 30s

>>10577097
Unironically buy 30yrs and wait for the deflationary collapse.

>>10577104
short and take profit at 18.4, more like it.

>>10577118
Do it then guy
*buys*

>>10577106
Thanks, anon. I think I’m going to stay on the sidelines for SNAP. There’s always another options trade down the road...

>>10577097
inverse the financial news narrative, always

whatever message you see there is at best meaningless noise, more likely it's what They want retail investors to do

boring market and thread is full of morons today.

going back to bed.

you guys all suck at trading and will end up poor by the end of the year. Good Luck

>>10576668
Who else /gambling/ on HEAR and ETSY?

Ive traded WU for a long time
Its great Ranger like KO, almost exactly the same but in the financials
buy it immediately

>>10577125
Pic related, it's me robbing you.

>>10577106
Is tastyworks free besides commissions? Their commissions aren't bad at all, kind of looks too god to be free

>>10577038
Yes. ~ 17% or greater of a move is already expected.

>>10577107
Well over a year. I've lost a few times. I primarily day & swing trade SPY options.

>>10577070
Chinese is practically synonymous with cheap and shitty. I don't understand how anyone can fall for their shit still.

>>10577164
https://tastyworks.com/commissions-and-fees.html

pls GPRO me had faith in you and not sell @ 7.20
$8 !!!

>>10577184
Nice!

>>10575996

still holding.....
>melt up pls

>there are people who fomo'd into hmny and are already -50%

>>10577186
sell that garbage bakaknee

>>10576759
Wew. I hope the guy who bought 10,000 shares of HMNY in the last thread sold.

this week or next week for NASDAQ ATH brehs

im thinking next Tuesday nah I mean

esketit retirement INC

It's time for the Lunchtime Checkup!

What're you eating how're you doing?

I'm in boomer jail so I brown bagged a smoked ham and garlic cheddar cheese sandwich on WEAT with bistro sauce. I'm down only like .15% so eh. Might go to the driving range after work. Kinda still fucked up today, tried a four loko on the weekend and it got me.

>UWT

>>10577230
G I S G U R T means G R E E N D A Y

>>10576722 (checked)
good stuff anon

>>10576828
dont listen to those other tards.
VIX is low because there are VERY few people trading today. less buying and selling leads to lower VIX.

now as to the reason there are so few people trading today? idk. perhaps they are waiting on a retaliation from china. perhaps they are waiting on the iranian sanctions being announced in an hour. or perhaps we are overbought in the near term.

but you are correct, this is quite a downward move on VIX considering nothing is really pumping

>>10577215
At least I'm only down $30 so far

>>10577230
nothing like the driving range
Be careful of hand blisters

>>10576696
bilibili users are too loyal and they put up with it. no drop in traffic and is going up everyday.

>>10577150
What happened for it to fall of a cliff?

BWEN

lol get fucked bearfaggots

>>10577214

lovely day lads, good luck

>>10577269
Not sure, I think it dropped last week on earnings?
19 - 20 is the range
18 is possible but thats the literal bottom

>>10577230
Probably gonna make a sandwich for myself soon.

Down 0.2%, thinking about selling my WEAT for AMRS in anticipation of earnings. Am I retarded?

>>10577230
where's the activated /k/ almonds?

>>10577225
Watching the trainwreck that is HMNY has been very educational. When was the deadline for when HMNY must reach a dollar a share or get delisted?

>>10577248
I feel like we are over bought. Think the S&P 500 is like 140% gdp. Of course I also think that's mostly due to tech. Hence why I'm buying staples like food and clothing

>>10577254
Got back into golf and it sucked me in deep, I gotta work on my contact. I have a blast playing though, and I can yank the oldsters chain laughing at boomer stocks

>>10577295
I got one pack left, I'm eating them slowly. I'm going to pickup more on Friday

long target reached, closed
GG quick day ! hope some people trade me charts they have been almost 90% right past 3 weeks X.X

AMD is up 4% and people are calling it a moon mission.

Do yourself a favor, get off /biz/ and do your own research. There's a reason I stopped coming here. Definitely some people here who know there shit, but you'll eventually lose your profits fucking around with a "moon mission".

Just a word of advice.

War with Iran soon

>>10577319
>closed

>>10577303
I used to love the driving range followed by a full minigolf game

>>10577300
staples are mostly oversold, so this is a very good idea desu
on the other hand, the people buying largecap tech memes will get whats coming to them sooner than later imo

>>10577320
likewise, the people who FOMO into moon missions will ALSO get what they deserve

if you dont have the self control to stop yourself from trading random /smg/memes, you should not be trading imo

>>10577299
December 18th. They will get there though, trust me. Investors are fucking stupid. You have dumb faggots like RKG still holding shares.

>>10576936
>>10577070
I had both of these images saved. I've got a few others. It's a fascinating culture.

>>10577328
>UWT

please daddy

why arent you buying buffets jewels

how much does biz have in savings?

I'm only at 4K but saving $500 per month until i hit $10K. my savings was always my mutual funds and divs portfolio but its been 10 years since the recession and i'm thinking I should have more cash laying around for when there's another one or another correction

>>10577352
How strict are they with delisting? If the stock is just 99 cents and a penny short will it still get delisted?

>it's a zerohedge retard announces impending doomsday in an authoritative tone episode
I hate reruns.

>>10577368
im looking at the near term 15 calls desu
theyre dirt cheap. will wait until after the iranian response has been realized tho

>>10577216
no bully GPRO she tries very hard !
>>10577343
me have buy SPXS and not sell because pattern gaytrader
so technically CLOSED LONG

ROAD

>>10577378
there was a correction in 2014-2015 and then another small one if feb, dont expect another one for a year or two

HMNY going back to 1000

>>10577389
whos being a doomer?

>>10577378
you should always just buy more when you can, never wait to try to catch a correction

>>10577320

t. bottom seller

>>10577404
Market cap, maybe.

>>10577394
NIGGA no way it falls to 15. That'd be like 30 a barrel

>>10577386
it needs to trade above $1 for ten consecutive trading days between now and December

I think they'll do another reverse split to get there

>>10577378
I have 16k from being a wagie sitting in my savings. I only have 1k on the market, I've only been trading for 6 months and I'm too scared to risk most of my money.

>>10577394
So what exactly is this business with Iran?

>>10577424
what happens if i paid $1.75 for 25 shares of that garbage last week and a reverse split happens

do i just get paid out at market rates when the snapshot is taken? cuz it will be mroe than a 1:25 split lmao

>>10577395
>buying a hedge when your portfolio is literally $5

>>10577424
At least 2 more, maybe 3.

>>10577378
Savings is a boomer meme. Real men live thier lives a dollar away from disaster.

TMSC foundries been sabotaged with a virus affecting Apple, Nvidia, and AMD. Smells like the work of Intel jews but that's just my 2 braincells activating.
>>10577432
Some announcement later on by Iranian president about death to America, etc.

>>10577432
If the sanctions go through bigly, part of that is that they cannot export their oil to any US allies, which is like 90% of their market.

Massive drop in supply, massive inc in price

>>10577423
NIGGA
im talking about USO

you shouldnt chart the leveraged ETFs
its beyond useless/retarded

>>10577432
supposedly some announcement at 1 EST that has something to do w sanctions. i dont know exactly. trumps warhawk cabinet can hardly contain their faggot boners over the idea of invading iran. theyve been planning an invasion of iran since 911

personally i hope nothing comes of it (as there is very little benefit to the US. mostly for KSA and israel), but if it does happen, i will be long oil

What the fuck is SNAP doing

>>10577469
>Massive drop in supply, massive inc in price
Which means there's demand that's not being filled, right?

we green nao

>>10577347
Depends how much they're trading with. If they actually figure out what the fuck they're doing instead of following memes they'll be doing themselves a great service.

I made it to the moon a few times when I lurked here often, it's fun, but it's no way to develop a sound investment strategy and I feel like there are plenty of people here who don't fully understand that.

You're right that anyone who only knows to follow memes shouldn't be trading, but people are fucking dumb and need to be told that sometimes.

>>10577423
either way, be careful with the leveraged oil ETFs if youre just short term rn
im expecting a LARGE dip before any real jump. hence why im cash and waiting

>>10577477
Building up before a drop? Charging up a jump? Us /straddlebois/ can only hope

>>10577424
>trade above $1 for ten consecutive trading days between now and December
So the merest slip below a dollar means game over for HMNY.
I should prepare some popcorn, this shit is better than a movie.

>>10577475
So this will be the next meme after they play out the trade wars? Awesome can't wait

>>10577496
I just started trading this week, looking at oil and my favorite companies, pls no bully

>>10577483
Oil markets are usually very close to equilibrium. Any jolt in supply jerks it pretty good in either direction.

>>10577402
The February one was painful for my portfoilio but I just kept buying. I wish we would have another one soon, but yeah the soonest I think we will see another is Q3 2019

>>10577469
So would now be the time to buy shares in American oil companies?

>>10577512
It's already well below a dollar my man, 0.07 right now. The Israelis at HMNY have to figure out something drastic to keep it above a dollar for ten days sometime before December.

>>10577496
Not everyone has the same risk profile, famalam. Some people here are perfectly fine with playing the white collar lotto.
At the end of the day the only way for a small spec to generate excess return is to take on excess risk.

>>10577531
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh probably. If their supply isn't touched, but global demand and price go up, I'd' expect their value to increase as well.

>>10577528
yeah february rekt my nikkei position for life
But it was a bond yield spike, same as black friday, and thus, it will continue last years bullruns

>>10577538
another 250:1 reverse split

and then when that drops from $15 to $0.08 in a week, another reverse split after that

>>10577505
Pick a side you fucking anything-but-centrist

>>10577378
The guidance is still 70/30 stock and bond, tweak either figure to accomodate 5-10% cash according to your risk appetite.
In hindsight it seems like 08 happened quickly when really there were months of weakness before rapid declines started around september. So generally stay heavily long the market while the market is still good and start deconstructing a bit only when the economy is clearly recessing to build up cash. As the saying goes, you take the first and last 20% I’ll take the 60 in the middle.
>>10577429
This is pretty common. You don’t need to invest everything you have but if you have that cash in brokerage already you are very underexposed right now and leaving money on the table. If your holdings are volatile enough to the point that you’re afraid of investing more, you should pick safer assets.

>>10577557
Until there's just one share?

>>10577547
So what should I be looking at? I’m pretty new to trading. Should I buy into specific companies or should I go for an ETF?

>>10577496
>You're right that anyone who only knows to follow memes shouldn't be trading, but people are fucking dumb and need to be told that sometimes.
well i find comfort in it, knowing that im no longer the lowest hanging fruit lol

>>10577514
that faggot w the moustache (bolton) and a large amount of the GOP and DNC (ie the ones long oil/energy memes) have been hawking for it particularly hard this year. i have no doubt trump doesnt want direct conflict, as the public opinion on declared war is extremely low, and were headed into midterms. but i also doubt that one man in the oval office has more say than all the polis and spooks in the IC who have been planning it for years.

we are in "wait and see"
geopolitical macro shit is not something you just FOMO into desu

>>10577538
If /biz/ were in charge of turning the HMNY ship around, what kind of fuckery would be planned out? By /biz/ I'm referring to this entire board doing a hostile takeover of HMNY.

>>10577560
sell me more calls & puts plz

>>10577572
Depends on your risk tolerance senpai-a-lam.

UWT is a 3x leveraged ETF that will bring greater returns on a supply drop than any company stock would, but it will also drop faster if saudi arabia decides to pump it out.

Haliburton is safer, and will probably go up.

UWT can easily get to 50, which would be a 20%+ inc.

>>10577582
Isn’t that what we’re doing? Isn’t there market cap like 13k couldn’t we just buy all their stock?

>>10577464
not surprised TSMC a huge threat to Samsung too. this was a samsung and intel sabotage. apple is likely to work with tsmc to make their own chips after dropping intel.

>>10577105
>Not using BWEN gains to buy FNKO

>>10577143
I really hope HEAR's ER is good

>>10577564
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

Also, they already have permission from the shareholders to issue another 4.5 billion shares. So they can do that whenever.

>>10577597

>>10577608
HMNY BEARS BTFO

>>10577597
good lord

>>10577572
Maybe look into American oil and gas companies that aren't heavily into debt.

>>10577597
>>10577608
>>10577616
That account just has to be an HMNY employee right? Theres no way...

>>10577572
ETFs like SPY or VOO (S&P 500 ETF stocks) are a good way to spread your money across a bunch of winners and losers.
Picking individual stocks is better if you're more confident in a particular company than an overall market.

>>10577616
>>10577608
Literally who

I am wondering how many of you guys are:
1. Traders
2. Value Investors
3. Dividend Investors
Or whatever you self describe your method.

And what are your top holdings?

Value Investor
>GS 7% up
>FB 3% up
>FCAU 2.7% up
>VZ 9.7% up
>XLK 9.4% up
>NTDOY 3% down
>TCEHY 10% down

>>10577624
guy has been trying to pump the stock since it was at $50 3-4 weeks ago, probably losing everything. i asked him a question and got blocked

>>10577634
all of the above

>>10577593
You're seriously telling me there are anons ITT and outside spending their crypto buying HMNY right now? I thought it was all a game of chicken to egg somebody into bagholding.

>>10577561
Bonds haven't been worth the paper they are printed on for some time, that might change but I wouldn't go over 15%

>>10577572
My advice, don't buy anything until you've tried paper trading for six months. ETFs run the gauntlet from good to trash just like stocks. If you suck at the paper trading look up a three fund portfolio.

>>10577634
i don't trade, or buy value stocks specifically, and i avoid high div plays (due to tax inefficiency).. i just buy index funds

Sorry I'm late boys, so what we buying and selling today?

>>10577647
Yes

>>10577634
>Or whatever you self describe your method.
amateur speculator

>>10577634
none of those
I'm only a simple man tending to my savings

>>10577682
This board is nuts. I think I'm home.

>>10577593
I’m getting differing figures on that. RH says $13k, etrade says $133k, nasdaq says.... 353

>MU

>>10577634
My method is weaponized autism. I trade stocks with the method I best think fits that particular stock.

goys
we have the absolute perfect safe play with USO 14.50 straddles tn

pretty much delta neutral, with OVX (oil vix) extremely low. just give yourself some time so you can actually reap some vegas out of it

Good 'ole AMD

Looking like it's time for UVXY

>>10577438
>buying a hedge when your portfolio is literally $5
me like to think am making equity tranche
trying for learn how to calculate delta !

hedging for 0% risk only thing ultimately care about !!!!!

>>10577728
as of last week, they have 6.7m shares outstanding. so price * shares = mcap

who knows if that's still accurate though, they're playing games.

>>10577767
i dont care what anyone says.
learning how to hedge is important no matter the size of the port

and it will save you some gray hairs in the long run too

>>10577761
most likely. oil volatility spikes usually spill over into increased vol in the S&P

>>10577634
Me am /Range Trader/ who main goal am beating S&P yearly !!!

>>10577540
You right

>>10577761
nigga look at this contango. you cray

Bought a few FB calls at open, sold +500%. Going back to sleep

>>10577582
End MoviePass, say a new cryptocurrency initiative, offer bundled subscriptions to every online streaming service, do a 1000 for 1 reverse stocksplit and announce 120 billion in dilution, use this funds to build a bunker with 100 years supply and the rest to steer an astroid on the earth and kill everyone that isnt me.

Collegefag here, im tired of using RH. Which should I open, IB or TDAmeritrade? I took a look at IB's API and its a bit confusing.

>>10577767
is that so

>>10577719
wait did AMD drop PGA?

>>10577807
Yes! Learning how for hedge am only way for take gambling out of trading!

me love reading stories of master head fund managers, how they cleverly find almost riskless trades !

i wanted to sell my gopro puts today at open
but my phone didn't ring its alarm again

time to get a new fucking phone

>>10577838
lol yea i thought he meant long VIX
i cant be arsed to do anything other than short those ETFs desu. but the are VERY good for that

>>10577868
it is very cool
my favorite is to long vol on a particular stock/ETF when i see the IVs super low and can get them delta neutral
like USO rn (or rather 15 mins ago)

>>10577861
TD's commissions are a nightmare for poorfags like us

>>10577861
schwab has the lowest per-trade commissions at 4.95 i think

another anon has been shilling tastytrades platform tho. ive been considering it due to how nicely their platform is set up for options

>>10577865
Ryzen still uses PGA.
Threadripper is LGA.
Epyc is also LGA.

Speaking of brokers, any EU flow use Lynx here?
I'm tired of Degiro's shitty everything.

>>10577976
>flow
Folks. Phone spellcheck strikes again.

FUCK YOU SNAPCHAT
WHY IS YOUR SHIT STOCK RALLYING 2%

Turkey collapsing. -6% Turkey ETF today alone.

>>10577991
i covered my short on this dip desu
im looking to get back in ASAP tho

>>10577469
I got into OILU last week.

Already up almost 5 bills this morning. If Iran tries to blockade the straight of hormuz I'm going to cum in my pants

Just bought 60 shares of AMID

How fucked am I?

what earnings u guys watching today ?

>>10578067
HEAR and ETSY

>>10578038
I mean you pick one of the worst mlps out there right now so there that, but we might invade Iran and drive oil up. Personally I'd exit the first time you see anything even resembling a profit. There are far better dividend stocks out there if that's what your looking for.

>>10577991
im long USDTRY big af lets get after it

Turkey is a meme country their failure is my profit

>>10578023
My nigga. Essentially the same as UWT, a 3x oil ETF. My cost average on UWT is 32.4, which is equal to......47.9 OILU.

So yeah, I also will cum in my pants. UWT would bust through 40 and OILU would be like 65

>>10578088
Recommend some? I'm looking for some nice dividend stocks to dump some cash in and hold for a couple months.

This snap straddle goes against all of my options sensibilities... Massive IV, short term options, relatively little volume.

Will pass and probably laugh when people buying the straddle today get fucked.

>>10578075
Ah okay,
HEAR is gonna shoot up
ETSY is gonna crash.

>>10578130

>>10578140
Do you know how many women are on ETSY selling stupid shit to orbiters?

It's going to beat.

>>10577053
Cupcakes are always nice.

Congrats on hitting the milestone.

>>10578140
short ETSY and die idiot

>>10578088
Thanks. Can you explain why AMID is worse than the others? And as the other anon said, I am looking for better dividends as well - especially around oil since the IRAN sanctions are coming soon

>>10578158
>>10578170
Its not speculation

Sources:
just trust me dude.

>>10578170
this
I need etsy for my gollywog collection

if i currently only own like 20 shares of QQQ what should I branch out into?

is owning boomer shit like SPY or VOO worth it? Why not just get the tech gains long term? Having 90% of my portfolio being 1 ETF seems silly but its superior in basically all ways to everything else.....

Does anybody here have 10-15 ETFs of various industries instead of an all encompassing one? Can cut out the shitty worthless industires that way and still lower your volatility by not dealing with individual companies

>>10578186
High IQ reasoning

>>10578120
Heres some div stocks of various meme levels. Ctl, Kim, stag, etp, epd, enb, BGS, t, f, ecc, ohi, hclp, ge, Geo. This list is in no way comprehensive but they offer solid dividends that aren't likely to go poof. I have at least 20 shares of each and plan to grow to far more in these.

Far safer would be stuff like Ko, dis, hsy. These are more long term holds.

>>10578192
AP plz go

>>10577988
THIRTEEN DOLLARS
WHAT THE HELL
WHAT POSITIVE NEWS IS THERE?
WHY DOES GOD HATE ME?
WHY DID I BUY SO MANY NAKED PUTS? FUCK FUCK FUUUCK

>>10578176
They just haven't performed well. There are other mlps in the oil biz who offer as good or better div with better growth. I'm by no means an expert on mlp oil, but I've been happy with the growth and div of etp, epd, and enb. I'm sure some seeking alpha writer has a full list of oil mlps and ranking of them and why. I also think oil adjacent like sand for fracking will do well hence why I bought hclp on the dip.

S&PEE PEE really struggling to close above 2850 today.

>>10577862
;_; yes just need learn how handle retard impulses now

>>10577917
thats a good strategy !

>>10578308
you bought them for earnings, right? just don't even look at it until after the ER

HMNY pump when?

>>10578308
>its another small specs short snap before earnings
Like a quarterly tv show

>>10577861
>I took a look at IB's API and its a bit confusing.

IB's API is designed for a professional programmer and there is no need to use it unless you are writing your own software to trade. I wonder if maybe you meant to say the UI is confusing.

FYI Morgan Stanley is bearish on the market. They are saying the correction will be bloodier than the one in Feb.

>>10578434
sauce?
desu that sounds like a buy signal more than anything

>>10578434
cool bro
SPX 3k

>>10578449
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-06/market-has-two-broken-legs-why-morgan-stanley-doubled-down-its-bearish-call

Mmm snapchat straddle life awfully comfy right now

>>10578449
teh profit is that you? where have you been

Why is volume SO low today?

>>10578176
Don't jump into MLPs without first understanding the tax reporting implications. If you want exposure to MLPs without dealing with the tax headaches of actually owning MLP units, consider AMLP.

>>10578477
Sell those calls now

Slow day today, but green is still green!

Hope you are all doing well.

>>10578468
well all i need is VIX over 14 in the next two days and ill be A-OK

>>10578482
lol
i was innawoods since last thursday way the fuck up in northern maine at some party. shit was so fucking cash. literally saw some mofo do a mctwist irl

>>10578468
Time to put together a shopping list and put aside some money for stock clearance day.

>>10578186
you sound pretty confident but ETSY am currently in "Pump it until she is silly" pattern
will be interesting see if you right watching this one !

>>10578500
Defeats the whole point of the Straddle

>>10578531
lool cool
I thought maybe you got banned or something

I wanted to say, congrats on the WEAT longs and metal shorts, not so congrats on the VIX

>>10578557
dunno what youre greeks/strikes are desu but id be afraid of doing a long straddle INTO ER desu

>>10578583
>I wanted to say, congrats on the WEAT longs and metal shorts
dawwwwwwwwwwww

>not so congrats on the VIX
patience

the real cash cow for me has been turkey desu

>>10578583
i only need a break above 14 tho for the VIX memes tho, so im honestly not worried. at the very least were looking at a pullback on SPY imo

>>10577230
Why do you eat so much crap and pretend it's healthy?

>>10578528
FUN!!!!!

>>10578617
to be fair, the vix is probably due for a lil jump
but as booffet says, anything can happen , will happen

>>10577230
BASED L BRO

>>10578617
SPY entering "pump her until she silly" pattern too.... am dunno looks like whole market about for pump hard

>some guy shilling intel and shit talking AMD this morning
>intel gets downgraded, AMD soars
The inverse biz strat strikes again like clockwork

>>10578692
i sold all my AMD last week when Cramer started talking about it >:(

>>10578692
AMD going down now.

I'm about to make it, lads

Aside from DRYS, has a stock ever baited so many people?

>>10578665
exactly
you are bullish
therefore i sell

net short hi yields, the S&P
and also long VIX

>>10578650
i dont doubt ill at least be able to break even (+14).
maybe that confidence is stupid, but i dont see this low volume pump as something worth going long in the short-term. also rkg is bullish, so i know its ogre

>>10578703
>Cramer started talking about it
those are good instincts desu anon

>>10578730
My man!

PUMP IT!!!!!

>>10578751
>shares: 1
for what fucking purpose?

>>10578748
but
but, if the spx breaks above ath this week + goes to 3k to end of year the vix can easily go back to last years range of 8.99 - 10
nvr forget this

>>10578766
I wanted one for sentimental reasons because I've had so much fun watching it the last few months. I get to say I own HMNY now!

WE MOON BROS

>>10578776
at that point it will be of no concern to me a ill have already expired

its a vol gamble, i expected it to be a total loss from the get go. thankfully, all the money i put into it was from VXX puts, so fug it

>>10578792
wtf are you even looking at m8?
literally everything in the market is fluttering around on low volume

>>10578809

thats because you're a dumb fucking faggot

>>10578776
also, if im not mistaken, the contango would be even MOAR if VIX goes that low. thus VXX puts will be even more back in style

anybody here accumulating QQQ and TECL for quick retirement? Just go for it brehs, even if shit tanks you can just buy more for cheap as fuck and when market comes back you will be making 100% annually....theres no way you can possibly take more than 15 years to get to $2-3-5 million in assets

>>10578825
and youre an invalid
literally nothing is mooning rn
cope harder

>>10578751
WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT!!

Bake fresh bread plz

>>10578776
is there another big corporate tax cut in the works or something? srs question. don't see how we can get back to 2017 volatility levels without 2017 macro policy of tax cut driven buybacks and lower interest rates

>>10578038
The worst MLP in the entire world. How they are so fucking retarded they cannot turn a profit operating pipelines in a massive historical boom? They haven't made a profit in 7 years, there s is nothing that can save them. They're fucking retarded and shits all fucked, dude.

There are Nigerian midstream companies that have huge overheead due to corruption, security threats, theft, they have to hire extra auditors and security guards, they still turn a profit. AMID in the best conditions in the entire world for their business has never turned a profit.

You could not replicate their results as CEO even if you deliberately meant to.

>>10578784
I understand the sentimentality. This morning I unloaded a 12 day NAK swing trade for ~23% profit.

Why is trading volume for everything low today?

>>10578912
I dont know what caused the prolonged low volitility in the 50s-60s bull market and the 90s, but that might provide a clue

>>10578842
>literally nothing is mooning rn

like I said youre just a dumb fucking faggot

>>10578957
erryone's hung over

especially the computers

>>10578934
to be fair, some of those MLPs didnt handle the last saudi oil crash very well, and were left w literally unmanageable levels of liabilities. the only thing some of them can hope for is a quiet, painless and swift bankruptcy

>>10578963
youre saying theyre gonna drop rates again? im confus

>>10578957
its Monday and people are at home cuddling with their wives

>>10578934
can you suggest one better :) thank you for your advice.

>>10578957
Because smart money left the market in January. It's been low ever since.

>>10578957
Is the market waiting for something to be announced?

>>10579003
well thats a hell of a fucking argument
i concede defeat

What the fuck do I buy, I'm down today :(

>>10578957
at least someones paying attention

>>10579022
theres a lot of moves that the US just did geopolitically
i think the market is waiting for the response

>>10579018
this kek
SPY has lost like 2 billion in trading volume since then

me wish could figure out how they manage keep rising price

>>10579008
no, rates dont necessarily mean low volitility, because they were rising in the 50s and 60s I belive
I literally dont know kek. The 90s might be easier to figure out, but the 60s "VIX" was at 8-10. I dont know why

>>10579016
EPD, ETP, any other MLP in the USA besides AMID. They're so fucked they'll probably end up as a buy-in due to their mismanagement of their real estate, all huge fucking superfund sites any value their company ever had will be put into a trust to clean up their real estate. Literally worth less than zero.

>>10579101
After their dividend they seem to have dropped to 5/6ish. Do you think I should get out now or wait for a bit of a rebound? I bought in about 5.80.

>>10579050
maybe it had something to do with inflation?
idk
do you know a good place to look at historical data that far back?
tradingview gets me back to the late 80s on some tickers. id really like to look at the 50s-70s tho as those were really extreme times for monetary policy

>>10579041
HMNY. 99.6% discount, 90% of expenses cut overnight, 95% of customers only see 3 movies a month, so they should be happy keeping the service
marketcap is only $100k, with 2 million subscribers. even the idea of getting close to breakeven should catapult this into the stratosphere

previously huge bear on HMNY but with these changes we should see a 2x-3x in a week at least.

>>10578748
everyone who uses me as contrarian indicator will regret it

>>10579101
Also it looks like a bad time to buy into ETP >>10579113

>>10579136
>>10579136
>>10579136
bread
>>10579136
>>10579136
>>10579136
baked
>>10579136
>>10579136
>>10579136
NOW!!

>>10578557
Is straddle a good buy on SNAP right now?

>>10579018
this is true, but today especially has been REALLY low

>>10579044
because new money/greater fool/RH marketing itself to normalfags etc

>>10579132
i only inverse your bullish plays desu

How can a company report a negative eps quarter and still pay dividends?

>>10579041
GSKY
MNK
NBRV

>>10579157
Return of capital.

>>10579150
>put/call IV at 120
fuck no it isnt
dont buy straddles/strangles right before ER

>>10579044
This is a good question. There's no way reatail is propping up the market.

>>10579150
Buy SNAP, it's the new FB. Also X (Us Steel) is very over sold and probably the easiest 20% you'll grab all year.

>>10579220
Small-scale dumb money institutes. County employee pension fund managers, obscure hedge funds, regional insurance companies, mismanaged credit unions, labor unions with surplus due money, ect.

These are like retail investors only with an extra zero at the end of their trades.

>>10577141
But I'm already poor now.

>>10579376
SNAP is like FB for kids that like dick pics.

30% of SNAPs users are euros that generate no revenue. GDPR costs kicking in. Rising costs for a unprofitable user base... looking forward for some lowered guidance muh-self

>>10579594
SNAP is like regular text messaging, only with advertisements. Just put your phone on airplane mode and take screencaps. Everyone in the world that uses the app knows how to do this.