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Old 08-17-2007, 11:14 AM
LA_Price LA_Price is offline
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Default Re: Are naked calls/puts insanely +EV? What am I missing here?

Read "Fooled by Randomness", by Nassim Taleb or "the Black Swan". Look up Long Term Capital Management as well.

Basically the Black-Scholes formula doesn't describe the reality of risk taking.
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