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Options Trading — Capital Gains vs. Business Income Canada
Hi everyone, I'm struggling with a specific tax classification issue and have been researching it extensively. On the off chance this reaches someone with real expertise — a former CRA agent, tax lawyer, or similar — I'm posting my situation here. This isn't a question born of insufficient due diligence. …
Lost $40k on prediction markets. Almost wish it had been options instead
Recently got into prediction markets through Kalshi and Robinhood. I started betting on tennis, baseball, and even World Cup matches. I know next to nothing about any of those sports. Maybe some basic knowledge, but that's about it. Like options, the first one's always free. I won my first few …
Finding spreads for 0.01 and selling at .10+?
Hello sub, I’m trying to find a screener that actually shows option spreads that bought/sold for 0.01\~0.05. I’m thinking of selling them right away (hours to days) at only 0.10-0.15, kind of a “scalp”. But I can’t find a screener that goes through last price of verticals (or don’t know …
Realised i've been pricing risk completely backwards
Was going through my trade log from the last couple months and something clicked that i'm almost embarrassed to admit Ive been sizing my options positions based on how confident I feel about the setup. Which sounds fine until you actually look at the numbers. my highest conviction trades were …
Dealing with huge loss
Sometime last year I had the fortunate but horrible experience for hitting an option contract with a massive 30,000% out of nowhere. That was without any information but just a guess. Since then I started to use more options, not realizing I am basically gambling and over positioning with large …
I continue to defend: 0DTE options trading is Betting
I see a lot of discussions on 0DTE on Reddit. I continue to defend: 0DTE options trading is not investing; it is pure guessing (will the asset will move up? move down, stay in a range? There is no edge on these very short-term options! Hence, you define a guess …
Spy vs Spx for credit spreads
I've noticed that whenever I open credit spreads on spy and spx with the same exact deltas, that the premium received is always heavily skewed towards spx.. For example if I collect a .20 credit on spy for a 10 delta call credit spread.. You'd assume spx would provide a …
I simulated TQQQ back to QQQ's 1999 launch
Many people here trade options on leveraged ETFs. I simulated TQQQ back to QQQ's inception in March 1999, with financing costs and the fund's expense ratio built into the model. Almost every leveraged ETF discussion eventually runs into assumption 3x daily leverage should produce something close to 3x the long-term …
Who are the 99% ?
Hey everyone am I engineer who works at a fintech startup , my company is into **F&O trading** and they mostly do algorithmic trading meaning we design the technical layer of the strategy to trade on the market . Since my company is just a startup they do not consider …