My strategy was pretty much encapsulated in my first two sentences... although I forgot to note that I chose to maximize leverage on my GTZ thesis by focusing on the cheapest, waaaay-out-of-the-money options.

And then, in practicality, I settled on these, with a diversity of expiration dates, just based on their prices at the time. Nothing scientific here - just looking for puts appeared to be the most most effective way to implement my strategy.

PFE 06/16/2023 35.00 P PFE 01/19/2024 22.50 P PFE 01/19/2024 25.00 P PFE 06/21/2024 27.50 P PFE 06/21/2024 35.00 P PFE 01/17/2025 22.50 P PFE 01/17/2025 25.00 P MRNA 07/21/2023 90.00 P MRNA 01/19/2024 65.00 P MRNA 01/17/2025 60.00 P

And regarding "learning how to trade", I think everyone should be familiar with this.👍 But part-and-parcel of that is to be endlessly subjected with the non-stop boastful claims of winning from "day traders", and it's important to know that this is like listening to the stories of all the wins from a degenerate bettor. Investing is important, and can help grow your capital, but my main suggestions are to focus on long time horizons, as well as implementing your thesis of where they markets are headed. But trying to beat the high-velocity, front-running, algorithmically-optimized financial firms in short term, or "day trades", by "reading the charts" or some other secret sauce, is the stuff of retards. Any promise of free and easy money for doing something that someone else could do themselves is a straight-up scam, forever and always.

If you are just learning to trade. The number 1 most important lesson I can help you with is don’t listen to idiots on any platforms telling/suggesting where to put YOUR money.

Like this guy lol

Two great points (I only touched on the second by stating: don’t risk what you can’t lose):

• The time-value of money has to be understood; the capital risked is 2022 dollars, and the return at expiration date would be 2024/2025 dollars. (edit: I was distracted when I wrote “time value of money”; “the debasement of the currency” is the more salient issue, and the one you correctly brought up)

• Definitely don’t spend money that is needed for more pressing purposes, even while acknowledging that survival preparation is inherently speculative as well. I’ve spent a lot of money on survival prep that may not ever get used if there’s not a food emergency in the US. This activity is indeed very analogous to the risk/reward of a speculative investment, although I, too, would elevate preparing for “food insecurity” over financial positioning for the coming financial evisceration of companies complicity in the canal’s mass murders.

My point exactly.

And so I'm betting that evil will LOSE.

If you can’t handle limited risk, Blackrock and Vanguard are ready to handle your index fund needs. (as the market drops out from under you 🤷‍♂️)

Quite seriously, the whole point of this post was to point out a straightforward way to benefit from a view that these companies will be ended by their jaw-dropping murderous malfeasance; of course there’s a risk, but it’s specifically limited. It’s essentially a binary outcome with what I believe to be very favorable odds - if you can’t afford to lose the premiums at any size, or don’t agree with my presumptions, or, as it appears in this case, just plainly don’t comprehend assuming risk vs. reward, yeah, it’s totally not for you. 😆

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This is always a valid consideration, as countless people have gone busy getting everything right about a prediction but the timing.

But yeah, no, thanks for the concern, but this isn’t going to make me insolvent - like I stated, the losses are fixed, and I’m fully prepared to part with the premiums I spent in return for getting what I feel to be fantastically advantageous odds.

If you think the largest legal settlement in history, for the marketing a few random drugs for off-label uses, is anywhere near comparable to conspiring with the federal government to ban the use of effective early treatments for COVID, banning the public discussion of those medicines, fraudulently gaining approval for a murderous injection with negative effectiveness, corrupt the entire practice of medicine, suppressing the freedom of speech and dissent for Americans and people around the world, pushing this untested (or, damningly, worse) or pregnant women and children, corrupting the VAERS, DMED, and other sacrosanct databases, in a mutagen that over 60% of Americans were induced to taking, many at the direct threat of loss of their livelihood or access to medical care and/or family members, which has caused the death of millions, and counting… yeah, I don’t think you share a common view with this community about “what is coming.”

And then your demand for “5D” investing strategies is just transparently clownish concern trolling. Either the criminal conspirators get punished, legally, socially, financially, or they don’t. That’s not complex. You’re oozing either clownishness, or disingenuousness.