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mircea_popescu: dub hey, i made it long enough for bet to come live :D
mircea_popescu: i dunno, imo for bitcoin nonvoting divcarrying equity is way better than the other way around.
mircea_popescu: and not all the trade volume is necessarily an open long position.
mircea_popescu: smickles while it's true that 0.9x is dim, i don't think 0.9x is a requirement. pretty much 2-3 strikes away from atm is dim afaic.
mircea_popescu: i was considering getting maybe up to 30 strikes next month. esp if we keep climbing or at least hold
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i can only change symbols on month ends and if you recall back on july 28 it didn't look so sure we'd hit 13. it was more like 9.x
mircea_popescu: i can't use my own bot to decide what the market says now can i.
mircea_popescu: smickles delta is not a reflection of mkt demand unless the prices you use are issued by the mkt
mircea_popescu: copumpkin> actually interacting with gpg isn't so bad, btw, if you just pipe commands together <<< most people find it's quite painless, esp if they have pympex. its one of those cases where the vixen looks sullen but she's quite charming once you get to know her.
mircea_popescu: i can change them any time so it's not such a big deal either way i don't think.
mircea_popescu: seems a tad confusing. i dunno, maybe i made a bad choice but it seemed to me more comfortable / intuitive esp for beginners.
mircea_popescu: some systems use a sort of technique kinda akin to url shortening too.
mircea_popescu: sgornick_ well other option systems might spell out the month in the options name, or use fixed month letters
mircea_popescu: but barring significant moves of price they just remain the same.
mircea_popescu: sgornick_ in general the symbols stay the same. due to the explosion of btc i retired the halfdollar symbols and added 11 through 20 dollars instead. i have the ability to do this as needed.
mircea_popescu: Also Bitcoinica was losing money because its hedging algorithm was too simple, and during the last few months the site had negative profit.
mircea_popescu: for instance, a new way to steal cards consists of using a laser to measure temperature right after owner used the card
mircea_popescu: seems more like a (pretty strong) random number generator than anything.
mircea_popescu: is not too close to the dt' between same in trade db, so your attack avenue doesn't really work
mircea_popescu: yea but what i mean the dt between no bid being offered and bid popping on the webserver
mircea_popescu: you understand the webserver is just relaying the actual trade db tho
mircea_popescu: buys/sells well sometimes the bot's orders expire before it notices.
mircea_popescu: but for once they splurged and hired kafka's daughter by mark twain to do the script.
mircea_popescu: dub i still don't quite comprehend what those people were thinking. forex-y bitbucket ran by guy in china/taiwan. let us buy it while we reside in fresno ?
mircea_popescu: as in, the person who finds a hole steals all yer coinz too.
mircea_popescu: course on the bet thing... you folks realise that it's darn easy to game