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For the last week, as boardmembers have found out Ericopoly's returns over the last ten years, there have been hundreds of questions asked of him.  I thought you guys can post on here regarding specific strategies for investments...be it BAC options, leverage, etc.  I think with his results, he deserves his own thread.  Cheers!

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. . .or just listen to Eric.  I've never had to ask a thing and learned everything I need to know about options from Ericopoly. 

 

Calls are the right to buy, puts are the right to sell - then just look at the prices and figure out what you want to do.

 

Oh and as far as the sorority of Theta, Alpha and Beta goes, I did see a board member mention "stripping out the Alpha" so maybe there is something to it! ;D

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For the last week, as boardmembers have found out Ericopoly's returns over the last ten years, there have been hundreds of questions asked of him.  I thought you guys can post on here regarding specific strategies for investments...be it BAC options, leverage, etc.  I think with his results, he deserves his own thread.  Cheers!

 

I must have missed that thread -- what are Ericopoly's returns over the last ten years?

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For the last week, as boardmembers have found out Ericopoly's returns over the last ten years, there have been hundreds of questions asked of him.  I thought you guys can post on here regarding specific strategies for investments...be it BAC options, leverage, etc.  I think with his results, he deserves his own thread.  Cheers!

 

I must have missed that thread -- what are Ericopoly's returns over the last ten years?

 

something like 78%...annualized.  :o

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For the last week, as boardmembers have found out Ericopoly's returns over the last ten years, there have been hundreds of questions asked of him.  I thought you guys can post on here regarding specific strategies for investments...be it BAC options, leverage, etc.  I think with his results, he deserves his own thread.  Cheers!

 

I must have missed that thread -- what are Ericopoly's returns over the last ten years?

 

something like 78%...annualized.  :o

 

That's >300x over 10 years..  :o

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I've explained this before but I'll say it again -- this is not my net worth growth, it's the growth in my RothIRA:

 

During 2003,2004,2005, my net worth went up a lot (from investing/speculation) but my RothIRA declined those years.  So in those first 5 years the RothIRA lagged the net worth gains.  Then, since 2008, my RothIRA has grown more than my taxable account (but I live out of that account and can't go as aggressive, plus it lags with taxes).

 

 

 

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I've explained this before but I'll say it again -- this is not my net worth growth, it's the growth in my RothIRA:

 

During 2003,2004,2005, my net worth went up a lot (from investing/speculation) but my RothIRA declined those years.  So in those first 5 years the RothIRA lagged the net worth gains.  Then, since 2008, my RothIRA has grown more than my taxable account (but I live out of that account and can't go as aggressive, plus it lags with taxes).

 

Doesn't matter.  The growth in your Roth IRA alone is spectacular!  Cheers!

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So Eric, I have to ask: what do your days consist of? Do you wipe your ass with $100 dollar bills? ;)

 

Seriously though, I ask because I kind of doubt you are much of a Wall Street type. Could be wrong though.

 

I'm pretty sure his day consists solely of this: being awesome.  8)

 

oh man. I'm jealous.  :P

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So Eric, I have to ask: what do your days consist of? Do you wipe your ass with $100 dollar bills? ;)

 

Seriously though, I ask because I kind of doubt you are much of a Wall Street type. Could be wrong though.

 

He posts on here as much as me, so a good amount of time is spent farting around with you guys!  ;D  Cheers!

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I've explained this before but I'll say it again -- this is not my net worth growth, it's the growth in my RothIRA:

 

During 2003,2004,2005, my net worth went up a lot (from investing/speculation) but my RothIRA declined those years.  So in those first 5 years the RothIRA lagged the net worth gains.  Then, since 2008, my RothIRA has grown more than my taxable account (but I live out of that account and can't go as aggressive, plus it lags with taxes).

 

Doesn't matter.  The growth in your Roth IRA alone is spectacular!  Cheers!

 

I bet you will be looking forward to your 59 1/2 Birthday!

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I typically wake around 6 am and check the pre-market quotes while in bed.  Then I drink coffee and walk my daughter to her public elementary school where there are only 14 kids in the class in addition to 2 full-time paid assistants.  So that's 3 paid adults for just 14 kids.  I'm not kidding!  And that's a public school in California.

 

Then lately I've been going on a two hour walk (foot surgery two years ago worked out).  I get back from that walk and go swimming for a half hour (one thing we splurge on is we keep the pool heated to 90 -- but some of that is solar heating).

 

Then I walk the dogs.  Or sometimes I go for a walk with my wife on the beach (she is usually doing her ceramics hobby in her studio).

 

If I don't go for my two hour walk, I'll be the one driving my son to his pre-school.  It's about 100 yards from the beach, so I'll leave the car in his school parking lot and go walk the beach, see the pelicans, watch the surfers (his pre-school is basically my parking spot for Hammond's Beach).

 

I go on fishing trips (flyfishing).  I've taken horse riding lessons -- we went for a trail ride last night in Death Valley (awesome!).

 

For my 40th birthday my wife is giving me surfing lessons -- so perhaps less watching the surfers from now on and I'll be doing more surfing.

 

Death Valley is hot!  Man, it was like 98 degrees yesterday.  It's bizarre -- this is winter!

 

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For my 40th birthday my wife is giving me surfing lessons -- so perhaps less watching the surfers from now on and I'll be doing more surfing.

 

Surfing can be highly addictive. Just make sure you don't get punched out for stealing someone's wave.

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If you made a book or movie about my thought processes or trades, you would become the Salman Rushdie of this board and I can name the people (board member's here) who would be likely to pool their money together and put a hit on your head.  One of them in particular, I suspect, would be the one to issue the fatwa.

 

;D

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If you made a book or movie about my thought processes or trades, you would become the Salman Rushdie of this board and I can name the people (board member's here) who would be likely to pool their money together and put a hit on your head.  One of them in particular, I suspect, would be the one to issue the fatwa.

 

;D

 

LOL!

 

Incidentally, we finally got "Homeland" here, and I've seen the first three episodes.  Very good show.  I haven't gotten my anti-terror fix since "24" disappeared.  Cheers!

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Homeland is excellent!! 

 

If you liked 24, check out "The Following" with Kevin Bacon.  They are the same writers so it has a similar feel except it is about a serial killer and his cult so it is a little creepy!

 

I watched the first couple episodes of "The Following", but it was too easy to figure out what was happening.  Cheers!

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I've only joined recently but from my casual reading and if i'm not mistaken, Eric has achieved his amazing returns solely from using options/leaps strategy on a handful of companies (FFH, ORH and now BAC/AIG) that were on the "perceived" brink of death?

 

That would be mostly correct.  The amazing thing was that it was backed by good analysis, not just plain dumb luck over years and years.  Cheers!

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