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B.E. retweeted
This is one little piece of the puzzle of how I've run a weekly room for 8 years now with a really positive track record. In options you can either buy them or sell them. I do both and both are valid. However, both are require some tricks of the trade and are way more of an art than a science.
ShadowTrader is going to be doing some webinars later this year and into the next discussing key aspects of all my and all my trader's strategies and what they do to stay profitable.
Here's a tip of the iceberg easy one......
AAPL just reported this morning. Note where the gap down came to, very technical. You want to sell very short term puts (expiring tomorow) that are under that line. Premiums are going to be elevated due to the ER (yes, even after it happens) but the Black Scholes formula doesn't know this line exists.
PS: If you say the words "gamma risk" we gon' have to tangle...
B.E. retweeted
A vote today is as good as a petition to King George III in the 1770s. There is no political solution.
B.E. retweeted
It's a sales gimmick and fear tactic as a way to make a play for a big money grab. BPC causes cancer and is bad UNLESS you buy our American made products at 100x markup. Then it's amazing. Nobody complains about all the creatine and various vitamins made in china and shipped here because they can't scam Millions of dollars in that area.
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Tether and Circle, the issuers of the two largest dollar stablecoins, initially froze well over $1 billion of the stolen funds from today's Binance hack. On the surface this looks like a rescue. In reality it is a demonstration of raw centralized power. A handful of corporate issuers can reach into the blockchain and freeze assets at will, with no court, no jury, and no due process for the holder.
This directly contradicts the decentralized ethos that made cryptocurrency worth owning in the first place. Stablecoins are permissioned instruments -- they are dollars wearing a blockchain costume. Stablecoin holders do not own a bearer asset; they own a claim on a company that can censor it.
In other words, you don't really own USDT even if you hold it. It can be turned off remotely, without your knowledge or consent.
B.E. retweeted
Look at the contrast:
Binance loses billions:
- Coinbase manually blocks addresses
- Tether and Circle freeze billions in 60 minutes
- Ripple and World Liberty coordinate in group chats
- Executives hug it out on X
A normal user loses $50k to an approval scam:
- "Blockchain transactions are irreversible, anon"
- "Code is law"
- "Have you considered reading the contract bytecode?"
- Zero help from stablecoin issuers
Decentralization for the peasants, emergency bailouts and centralized freezes for the tier-1 cartel.
There are two crypto industries, and you’re not in the protected one.
Our team is doing everything we can to support in the current situation, including blocking sends to compromised wallets. We've also reached out to Binance to offer our help.
Moments like this call for the industry to work together. Openly sharing any useful information and helping to protect customers should come first, regardless of which platform they use. If you can do anything to help, please do!
Crypto has been through many tough times, and has always come out stronger on the other side. This won’t be any different.
B.E. retweeted
BREAKING: World gasps in relief as Israel looks set to replace Voldemort with Sauron xitter.cf/Polymarket/status/2114…
BREAKING: Former IDF chief Gadi Eizenkot projected to become Israeli Prime Minister after Tuesday’s election, replacing Netanyahu.
52% chance.
🔗 polymarket.com/r/IsraelPM
B.E. retweeted
LOST CAUSE
Going to the federal government and trying to convince the federal government - federal politicians, federal judges federal bureaucrats - to limit their own power?
That’s not just dumb strategy and a lost cause.
It’s dangerous to the Constitution and liberty
B.E. retweeted
"At this point, Texas isn’t "cheap." It’s just an expensive state with a better marketing team and a bigger toll booth."
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TEXAS MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST FINANCIAL TRAP IN AMERICA...
Moved there thinking I was escaping high-tax states. No state income tax. Wide open spaces. Low cost of living. Everyone made it sound like I’d finally get to keep every dollar I earned.
Then came the property tax bill. Then the homeowners insurance spike because of grid failures and hail storms. Then the toll roads, the high utility bills, and every other hidden fee that somehow costs more than New York.
You save money on state income taxes, but a single property tax assessment or insurance renewal wipes out three years of savings in one check.
At this point, Texas isn’t "cheap." It’s just an expensive state with a better marketing team and a bigger toll booth.
PEOPLE KEEP BRAGGING ABOUT NO INCOME TAX, BUT HOW MUCH OF YOUR PAYCHECK IS ACTUALLY LEFT AFTER THE STATE TAKES IT BACK THROUGH THE BACK DOOR? 🤨
B.E. retweeted
A lot of you are wondering about the FDA letters, rightfully so.
Here's what we had to say about our experience with the arbitrary and incontestable FDA letters on a new episode with @himshouse podcast!
It was an absolute pleasure speaking with @himshouse. Great people and certainly worthy of being the first to receive our public comment on the FDA letter.
B.E. retweeted
Sure, let's have the FDA and the governing bodies regulate our peptides and make them fucking worse.
The official USP monograph for Somatropin for Injection allows up to 12% total impurities, up to 6% high molecular weight proteins, and a labeled amount anywhere from 89% to 110%. Look it up. It’s available with a quick Google search and you can see exactly what a regulated official standard is going to look like when it comes to a peptide.
Plenty of the COAs I see from well known gray market sellers come in far tighter than that.
So the stamp that is supposed to make a peptide trustworthy can, and most certainly will, carry a lower bar than what an even mediocre gray market vendor already offers you with an HPLC test. The official monograph will match exactly what the pharmaceutical companies can pull off at the lowest of possible margins, not anything close to resembling something that is good for your health or better for you in anyway.
Some of us have been running these compounds daily for going on 25 years, and I have no interest in a new class system written by people who showed up last year to grift and scare people by leveraging their massive audience.
Andrew in the first comment under his post points to two deaths with "Reta" and no one knows whether anything closely resembling Reta was in the bottle. Again, we don’t know what was in the vial and we do not know a single thing about the people.
What we have is a rumor that it was black market product, and millions of us have been injecting Chinese grey market peptides from reputable sellers who test their products for decades.
I am also not excited about Big Pharma having a hand in defining what "verified" means.
Buy from a trusted vendor or pay for your own third party testing and know what is in your vial. The government and it’s regulatory bodies nor the pharmaceutical companies have your best interests in mind and I can’t believe I have to remind you of that.
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The side chains affect the half life - without them, it’d likely last just a few minutes in your system, like the way our native/endogenous hormones work.
So they have a real purpose. Not just to game the amino acid counts.
If they’d just had one more alpha connected to the alpha in the side chains, they’d be in business.
B.E. retweeted
changing from .ai to .si under trump is like putting your pronouns into your bio under biden
B.E. retweeted
Astonishing.
48 hours ago the NYT reported on a Treason scandal exponentially bigger than Benghazi, at the center of the Iran War, and involving Trump agents hiding the deaths of Americans in service of a foreign power—and besides the NYT the only outlet I see covering it is PROOF (my pinned post).