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Old 07-24-2007, 05:17 AM
SlowHabit SlowHabit is offline
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Default Re: options (finance)

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What you have to really and truly understand is that the market is a zero-sum game, so every dollar you make is a dollar another trader/investor just lost.

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Not to nit-pick but the market isn't a zero-sum game. You probably meant options.

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Someone said about wrong decisions in the market resulting in greater losses. Umm, lol, no they don't. I daily take positions worth over 250k, the worst loss I've had has been about 1k. It's called stop-loss, and it's totally sweet.

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I don't know much about options but I find the above claim hard to believe. Because if stop-loss is that sweet, why did funds such as Amaranth and LTCM lost billions of $$$?

Or you might be running hot [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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