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It’s important to note that when large option trades aren’t part of a hedging strategy, they almost certainly attract scrutiny from the SEC.



Wonder how the SEC sees the 99% of times people lose money on them, a la WSB


FINRA was an early adopter of AWS cloud. Here’s a case study from a full decade ago, 2014. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/finra/

When I heard back then they stored every side of every trade without getting hacked, I figured the Fortune 500’s security concerns with moving data to the cloud were likely to melt away, for better or worse.


Losing money is the default state and nobody cares. Like gambling in Vegas. The House only notices when the money moves in the wrong direction.




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