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I'm staying in my defensive stance. It might cost me but that's what I'm doing.
 

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I'm staying in my defensive stance. It might cost me but that's what I'm doing.
That is beta level thinking

But I am right there with you with the beta approach right now. No clue what the **** is going on
 

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Shoot for omega -- laddered munis and cash.
 

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Average down. ;)

That's about 13-14% correction off the high. Seems like a tranch would be warranted.
 

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I recently started selling options contracts and collecting premiums making a bunch of small gains. I’m on my way to being alpha as phuck.
 

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I recently started selling options contracts and collecting premiums making a bunch of small gains. I’m on my way to being alpha as phuck.
Covered I hope. Picking up pennies in front of the steamroller is profitable, but boy can it go south quickly. And when something happens suddenly the market makers can’t fill orders..
 

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Options are easy, just find a graph of numbers, when the graph goes down, and was previously up, do options. Do many options.
 

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Ah, my mistake. I see we are talking about expert Trump style options trading, the get rich quick way. Not regular old style options trading with deltas and other fancy words.

In that case, write as many options as your margin allows. Far out of the money so you can cash that sweet sweet premium.
 

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I'm not allowed to do naked options. I'm required to do covered calls and puts only. Once I do this long enough I'll have enough money to do naked contracts. Then I'll be alpha as phuck!
 

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