I  don’t think it’s a good time to short VXX. The market is going to get a pullback. Does it start Monday • Mid January • March… that’s the elephant in the room.

The key to shorting VXX is short it at the POP. Not down here at these prices. Watch the calls on Monday. Good luck

And don't forget that a lot of people are taking home tests to find out they have Covid. Those numbers are not included either.

Susan Miller is correct.  But as Biden said, Omicron is reason to be cautious, not panic.  We don't know enough about it yet one way or the other. More will be come clear in the coming weeks.  In the meantime, some extra caution is never a bad thing.

While this parity has close equivalence near the money, deep ITM long puts should be expected to have less liquidity and wider spreads, especially if the underlying starts going down, getting those long put deltas closer to 100 too early.

It stands for "Alcohol Use Disorder." Unfortunately, it's an all too common problem for not only Americans, but the entire world.

A recommended read.

Actually, the agreement only said that they couldn't attack US troops. And they didn't... ISIS-K did, a Taliban rival.  The agreement never said they couldn't attack Afghani troops. 

Both Trump and Biden were in agreement that if the Afghans weren't willing to fight for their country, why should US soldiers fight and die for it.

Yes, this is speculation and doesn't take many factors into account.

I never trust in 5 year forecasts.  Anything can happen in such a long time frame. With so many unknown variables, it is impossible to know what will happen.

This is normal pruning as the SP goes up.