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PREMIUM: Through the Roughage

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Quantity Not Required

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Over the weekend, I did a video about three big lessons I learned recently. Contrarian that I am, even to myself, I want to run directly into one of these and debate it: specifically, the point about how real profits come from LARGE quantity positions that are shorter-term in nature.

You see, I track not just my active positions but also the ones I close. I want to see how good or (more commonly) bad a decision I made by getting out.

What struck me this morning, when I sorted out the “would have been” percentage values, is that the BIGGEST gains, both percentage-wise and dollars-wise, were in tiny positions (like 4 or 5 put options) in expensive names. Specifically, Albemarle (ALB):

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