Trader: "It's Going To Zero"
Authored by Peter Tchir via Brean Capital,
Momentum Trader: It’s going to zero!
Sales: Protection is worthless. Why pay up for protection, it always turns out worthless?
Quant Trader: The skew and relative steepness makes timing critical on any purchase. The theta decay is virtually impossible to overcome.
Desk Head: Why aren’t we selling more?