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// unless you're actively regularly trading in the millions.

A lot of people/organizations bet in the millions.



Sure, and the SEC investigation will probably figure out if this is one of a thousand daily trades that got placed by the beneficiary, or if he opened a trading account last week, and this is the first time he's buying options.


That was the point of the post you originally replied to...


Even worse than opening a trading account last week: they've got a looooong history of doing nothing but the most boring buy-and-hold-index-funds investing you can imagine, until they suddenly bought 20k in lottery tickets that just happened to hit their one-in-a-billion chance to pay out.




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