One reason people are concerned about buying calls is their high premium--a legit concern. One way to offset that is to sell a put, say at 130 strike and buy a call, say at 150 strike.
Let's play this out a bit using March 18 expiration:
Selling the 130 put currently would provide you with $1900-$2000. Buying the 150 call would cost you $2200-$2300. So the net premium is about $300-$400, a lot better than just buying the call.
Let's look at what happens down the road:
If the price is below 130, 100 shares will be put to you at that price--a nice buy on the dip. If the price is above 150, you'll buy 100 at that price. Both scenarios put pressure on someone to get you 100 shares to buy.
The "worst case" scenario is that price stays rangebound between 130 and 150. In that case, both options expire worthless and you're only out that $300-$400 net premium--a lot better than if you had bought the call alone at $2200-$2300 and it expired worthless.
There are also potential permutations within the scenario--for instance, say the price spikes up quickly. That put goes down in price and can be bought back real cheap, locking in the gains from it. Others with experience can weigh in on other possible scenarios.
One key is that you would need to have up to $15,400 available to make an eventual buy if the price moves out of the 130-150 range.
As you can see, there's not a lot of risk in this type of play, but applies call volume pressure for a runup. I welcome any additional perspectives from the community.
Edit: It goes without saying that you would DRS the shares bought, but I'm saying it anyway, as it's not an options or DRS situation.
Usually the Microsoft.NET folder is placed in C:\Windows, let's say I want to place that folder in D:\ instead. Is there any way to point Windows and .NET applications to use that location instead?
I'd like to hear some feedback from people who use Linux as their daily-driver for their workstation computer that ALSO work heavily/exclusively with Microsoft products.
I work in the Microsoft Enterprise space. So Azure, Windows Servers, Dynamics 365, Office 365, Active Directory, .NET development, SharePoint, even Excel-development, etc.
Products that must be Microsoft branded. I can't use Linux alternatives. My company is a Microsoft partner and I service customers using the Microsoft stack.
That said, I really like the feel of Ubuntu. My PC has crashed randomly a few times and I end up using Ubuntu Live to try and repair/recover things.
Most Linux enthusiasts will blindly say "Oh Linux can do it all, it's the best you should switch!", but for my situation, can it really? Can I do my daily work in Windows feeling like a true native experience, while it's running in Linux? Or am I one of the few that it doesn't make sense for? Can I host Windows Server instances on Hyper-V on top of Linux? Or would I have to use Linux's version of Hypervisor and hope the Windows images play nicely?
Obviously would not be right away, but do you think there is a chance we might see Battle.net get rolled into the xbox app and then eventually turned off? I kind of like the idea of having one less launcher to worry about.
What's your general strategy and rule of thumb on portfolio allocation (real estate, stocks, crypto), tax strategy, and growing wealth. What's your typical income, tax rate, and what's your most strategic driver in reducing tax liability.
I think this is an interesting question because historically Harden's gotten tons of defensive attention and the Warriors used to double him all the time(KD even said over the summer that Harden is defender similarly to how Steph is)
However it seems that this season opposing defenses have focused more on KD(for example, last game there were several Harden wide open threes created by when the other team decided to send 2-3 guys to KD in the post)
What do you think the Warriors will do?
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You guys are going to love this. Basically, I am very unhappy with the state of AI in strategy gaming. So I posed this podcast to Josh and we brought Theresa on as well she is the subject matter expert and I have to contact with Keldon ;)
Anyway, come check out the podcast it looks like there will be more as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np7jbbM2CWM
More info on the Keldon Jones AI and how Race came to be digitized. https://www.templegatesgames.com/race-for-the-galaxy-ai/
So I've discussed this issue multiple times around here and gotten some good feedback and discussion that actually was incorporated into this. Statements by Brad, or Ray, and such. This is the definitive start to a path to better AI. The use of the neural net in board game conversions like Race and Roll for the galaxy are a great start and we have Theresa herself from temple games on the roundtable. What training an AI can do and offer. But alas, players don't care and do not want a challenge, it seems. We discuss that too...`
Come watch Tomo Josh, Theresa, and myself sit down and hash it out about advanced well even competent AI in Strategy Games.
https://youtu.be/np7jbbM2CWM
