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by jonknee 8y ago
This is a pretty clean list of all the common strategies along with charts showing their P/L: http://www.theoptionsguide.com/option-trading-strategies.asp...
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by jonknee 8y ago
> A multi-leg option allows you to bet on the "magnitude" of a stock's price change, rather than the "direction". Or simply define risk/reward (spreads and the like). That's especially useful if you wan
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by jonknee 8y ago
From the screenshots I have seen on reddit it appears they could be making a killing selling these orders. Market makers love doing options transactions with people who literally have no idea what they're buying. It's like hosting
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by jonknee 8y ago
The tax rate was 35%, bond rates more like 2.5-4.5% (depending on the length) and interest being deductible the actual impact less than that. The recent tax cut made this all quite worthwhile.
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by jonknee 8y ago
> Yes it'd be a shame if, in the long run, Japan stabilized, or even decreased, its population growth. Japan's population is currently declining... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp&#x2
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by jonknee 8y ago
It depends on the firm, but Apple is a great example of a company that took out tons of debt to buy back shares (and pay dividends) and it made total sense. The reason was they were holding tons of profits from overseas that they didn'
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by jonknee 8y ago
Elon has said many things that weren't true and the balance sheet doesn't lie. Tesla is going to need to raise capital.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Yes and that will bring all sorts of troubles, look at Japan for a modern example. One of many reasons we should be welcoming immigrants instead of shutting them out.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Who's to say what the intrinsic value is though? If you have an opinion on that you should be trading on it until the value comes in line and at that point buybacks are fine. Buybacks tend to happen at the worst times (boom years) and
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by jonknee 8y ago
It's a byproduct of having more people and more productivity every year, you don't need large amounts of either for it to compound. (And you don't need 10%, a lot more money is in bonds than equities and at much lower rates.)
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by jonknee 8y ago
Maybe they can buy them back!
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by jonknee 8y ago
And they were taking on debt as a work around for double taxes on foreign income. At crazy low rates because they are not a credit risk whatsoever. It was basic accounting.
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by jonknee 8y ago
I think this is much ado about nothing. Companies get killed for cutting dividends, so doing buybacks are a good way to create value for shareholders in a manner than can be ramped up and down. It's also more tax efficient (I pay taxes
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by jonknee 8y ago
What does that have to do with AT&T buying HBO, some cable channels and a movie studio? This is to compete with Netflix, not about providing broadband.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Yes, and people who are going bankrupt will also have their problems alleviated if they suddenly get a better job. That has nothing to do with whether or not there is a cashflow problem in the first place. I'm rooting for them, but Tes
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by jonknee 8y ago
My definition of clinical setting certainly includes nature, though I don't think that's required. The important part is professionals that first screen people (weed out people deemed to be high risk for bad episodes) and guides t
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by jonknee 8y ago
Their losses look like this over time: $889m -> $675m -> $2b -> ??? (a cool $710m in the 1Q so annualized like you did with revenue would be ~$3b). They have ~$2.8b in the bank, so that's about a year if things continue like t
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by jonknee 8y ago
Spending tons more than you make and not having savings is traditionally called financial trouble. Even after a recent huge rally their most recently issued bonds are yielding 7% which means lots of real people think they are a risk. Lots o
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by jonknee 8y ago
Are they running hot? They're in serious financial trouble and have been unable to meet self-imposed production levels. Now they're laying off thousands of people.
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by jonknee 8y ago
If that was the case they definitely would have noted it. Musk said "In addition to this company-wide restructuring, we've decided not to renew". He then went on to say the majority will be given the opportunity to move to ot
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by jonknee 8y ago
I think most companies would have a hard time finding 3,500 people to fire and not have it effect anything. Especially ones that describe themselves as a "growth company".
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by jonknee 8y ago
I'm not talking about a sterile windowless room with bright lights and various people walking in and out telling you to do things. More like a therapy setup, similar to how they're experimenting with MDMA. Someone who knows what t
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by jonknee 8y ago
A clinical setting is far different than giving someone some tabs and letting them loose at a concert or house party.
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by jonknee 8y ago
They intentionally delay it ~7 seconds in the US because we're scared of an errant boob or curse word to make the broadcast.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Your phone is constantly tracked by the cell towers it communicates with and in urban areas that's quite accurate location data. This data is sold to third parties. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking
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by jonknee 8y ago
"Live" TV broadcasts are also on a delay, so I guess it's all relative. I had a friend who lived near enough to an NFL stadium that you could hear when something big happened and the TV delay made it impossible to enjoy a hom
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by jonknee 8y ago
Convenience of course. Coffee is easy and cheap to make, but millions of people pay for coffee every day. Lunch is easy to make, but again, millions of people outsource that to someone who specializes in making lunch. Not owning something i
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by jonknee 8y ago
Better leave your phone at home while you're on a personal scooter then.
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by jonknee 8y ago
> UberX prices have done nothing but increase in San Francisco for years So, like everything else in SF then.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Bloomberg had a fun little game a while back where you could play a mall owner trying to keep your property profitable... Lovely retro experience, worth checking out: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/american-mall-gam

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