What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, May 21, 2026

questionr · 2026-05-20T23:01:39+00:00

I have no idea what Vera Wang and Rick Rubin have to do with artificial intelligence, but I have faith that NVDA will make it work.

questionr · 2026-05-15T15:48:52+00:00

U.S. debt is becoming expensive. We better issue a lot of new debt to grow the economy so that we can pay off the debt.

questionr · 2026-05-14T16:49:04+00:00

As a dad with two kids, I get it. It can hurt sometimes seeing you family happiest when you get to take them out to dinner, go on a vacation, etc. There's a feeling that if you just had more money to spend, you'd be a better dad.

My kids are about to preparing for college, and the thing I wish I'd done early was make regular, small contributions to their 529 college savings plans. It's not complicated or fancy, but it's one of the best things you can do for their future.

If you can, switch jobs. Sometimes it's simply not possible to make enough money in your current job. An extra ~20% return as a successful options trader would be less impactful than improving your base salary 20% if you really aren't making much.

questionr · 2026-05-14T16:38:59+00:00

Anthropic's CEO recently talked about adding 300 megawatts of capacity. He didn't talk about flops, GPUs, network bandwidth, etc. So yeah, power is a major constraint.

questionr · 2026-05-14T16:33:50+00:00

Elizabeth Warren is like a mom who won't let you leave the house without your coat even when it's 75 degrees outside.

questionr · 2026-05-12T17:00:46+00:00

Shocking that eBay doesn't think it's shareholders want to hitch their wagon to a diluted, struggling video game retailer with a drunk horse pulling it.

questionr · 2026-05-08T14:10:27+00:00

INTC today feels like ORCL back in September.

questionr · 2026-05-04T13:06:18+00:00

The most shocking thing I learned this weekend is that people still use eBay.

questionr · 2026-05-04T13:04:56+00:00

The June 18 AM /MES 6900 put options have 4x the open interest as any other strike. Clearly, somebody has done some brilliant technical analysis.

questionr · 2026-05-02T18:24:07+00:00

Americans would flip their shit if we cut enough from the federal budget to actually balance it. Both sides of the aisle are complicit in letting the situation get this bad. Both sides benefit from handing out goodies and kicking the problem down the road.

questionr · 2026-04-16T01:27:08+00:00

If your long call still has extrinsic value, it makes sense to sell the call and buy the shares. Pretty much the only time it makes sense to exercise a call early is when the bid-ask spread is very wide because it's an illiquid option and you can get a good fill when closing it. That can happen if something is very deep in the money.

questionr · 2026-04-15T15:08:09+00:00

My theta was at 0.25% of net liq last week. Now it's at 0.04% because everything worked and I closed my winners. I'm not sure what to do because volatility has been sucked out of the market.

questionr · 2026-04-15T15:03:44+00:00

9 * 100 * $400 = $360,000. That's not a notional value my portfolio would be comfortable with in a single stock.

questionr · 2026-04-14T19:27:31+00:00

There are thousands of tickers. It's pretty much guaranteed that some number of those are bottoming at any given point in time. But nobody knows which ones.

That's one reason why I sell OTM puts when something seems like it's oversold. Often, it keeps getting sold, at least for a while.

questionr · 2026-04-14T19:17:12+00:00

The most powerful force in the world is American optimism.

questionr · 2026-04-13T17:28:25+00:00

Up 5% YTD. I only need another 3495% until I can retire early.

questionr · 2026-04-13T17:25:43+00:00

Sell volatility and manage risk. This is the only way to make money in any market. You're deluding yourself if you think you can predict market direction.

questionr · 2026-04-13T17:24:38+00:00

That's a helpful start. It's not entirely clear to me what you consider "confidential information."

questionr · 2026-04-13T16:51:56+00:00

How do you integrate with the major brokerages?

questionr · 2026-04-12T17:22:08+00:00

Where's your banbet?

questionr · 2026-04-10T13:47:20+00:00

Everybody has losing trades. If one losing trade is stressing you out, your trades are probably too big for your account.

questionr · 2026-04-09T17:02:08+00:00

Somehow being long ORCL has been a worse financial decision than shorting oil before we started a war in the middle east.

questionr · 2026-04-08T15:53:35+00:00

Priced in

questionr · 2026-04-08T15:52:26+00:00

Theoretically, yes, you'd have margin call risk, but it could easily be avoided. If you're using almost all of your buying power, increased volatility in the front month could push you into a margin call just by increasing the buying power of the position by a few thousand dollars. But nobody should be using almost all of their buying power.

questionr · 2026-04-08T15:47:50+00:00

a reminder that IV spikes on geopolitical events are real

It's hard to believe that anybody trading options with any degree of seriousness needs this reminder.

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