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Johnnie Ellington II December 30, 2015 at 5:39pm · Religious Duties: A Gift From God When Abraham implored God in 14:40, he did not ask for wealth or health; the gift he implored for was: "Please God, make me one who observes the contact prayers (Salat)." The religious duties instituted by God are in fact a great gift from Him. They constitute the nourishment required for the growth and development of our Souls. Without such nourishment, we cannot survive the immense energy associated with God's physical presence on the Day of Judgment. Belief in God does not by itself guarantee our redemption; we must also nourish our souls (6:158, 10:90-92). Additionally, 15:99 states that observing the religious duties instituted by God is our means of attaining certainty: "Worship your Lord in order to attain certainty."
Johnnie Ellington II December 30, 2015 at 11:30am · My Lord has order me to tell those that the decree has been order if you take this wise advice and Preach God Alone and Separate your selves from the rest of Satan Pawns! He will Exalt you (THOSE) as the the the New and RESTORE Religion of God. One God. No need for any other Religion if you worshiping God alone and you can kill the Business of church and Idol worshiper. As Almighty Allah has allow me show you Idol Worship is Nothing. Once again the Most Merciful . It has been Decreed.
Johnnie Ellington II December 30, 2015 at 6:59am · MY LORD HAS TOLD ME TO TELL YOU. YOU MUST STOP PREACHING LIES ON HIM FROM THIS MOMENT FORWARD. IF YOU INSIST ON PREACHING THIS FILTH ATTRIBUTE IT TO HIM.. HE SAID TO TELL YOU THAT THE PUNISHMENT HE HAS DECREED FROM THIS POINT FORWARD FOR THOSE WHO TELL LIES OH HIM, IN THIS LIFE AND IN THE HERE AFTER YOU WILL BEG FOR DEATH AND IT WON'T COME YOUR HELL START NOW AND FOR EVER WHEN HE BRING YOU TO US WHAT WE HAVE IN STORE FOR SATAN MAGICIANS... DRAG THEM OUT HERE IN CHAINS AS TREACHEROUS TRASH. GUILTY OF TREASON TO THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE..FEEL THE BURNING...
A raging debate Success stories around the trading of these inverse VIX products swirled in 2017, with none catching the public eye quite like a former Target manager growing his net worth from $500,000 to $12 million using them. Seth M. Golden, who lives in a suburb of Ocala, Florida, has employed a strategy that's the inverse of the "buy the dip" trade, which involves adding to long positions on weakness. In Golden's case, he waits for inverse VIX products to surge and then shorts them further. Hedge funds have also gotten in on the action, holding a net short position on VIX futures for all of 2017 — though it must be noted that they've been short the fear gauge for most of the 8-1/2-year bull market. Still, the measure of net short exposure hit four records over a span of 11 weeks earlier this year, indicating just how keen large speculators have been to short the VIX. But as large investors have continued to pile into the short-volatility trade, a growing chorus of experts have called for discretion. Perhaps the most outspoken critic of the trade has been Marko Kolanovic, the global head of quantitative and derivatives strategy at JPMorgan — a man so respected that his assertions can move the market. He said in late July that strategies suppressing price swings reminded him of the conditions leading up to the 1987 stock market crash, and he has since doubled down on the warning on multiple occasions. More recently, Societe Generale's head of global asset allocation, Alain Bokobza, compared the continued VIX shorting by hedge funds to "dancing on the rim of a volcano." He warned that a "sudden eruption" of volatility could leave traders "badly burned." The comments echoed those made by Bokobza a couple of weeks prior, when he maligned the "dangerous volatility regimes" in the global marketplace. Even one of the foremost pioneers of modern volatility has gotten in on the criticism — in an interview with Business Insider, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor emeritus Dan Galai described the capital being used to short the VIX as "stupid hot money," and he likened the trade to "a substitute for going to Vegas and betting on the roulette." The other side of the trade Perhaps heeding the warnings of the aforementioned market experts, there have been investors who have piled into the other side of the short-volatility trade, buying options to gain exposure to VIX upside. The highest-profile example is probably the mysterious investor known as "50 Cent," who lost almost $200 million betting on a VIX spike in 2017. The trader has consistently purchased bite-size chunks — usually costing about 50 cents — of options contracts betting on a higher VIX. There's another volatility vigilante who stands to make a whopping $260 million if things fall perfectly into place. After buying a massive call option spread, the investor has rolled the trade over multiple times. Most recently, the person extended the expiration of the wager to January. It's possible that both of these traders are simply using the VIX wagers as a hedge for a bullish stock market play. But in a market where everyone is looking for a quick buck on the other side of the trade, their fortitude is admirable. One day further down the line, stock market volatility will rise again, and they'll be set to profit from it — assuming they don't run out of money or throw in the towel. With all of that in mind, perhaps now you'll recall 2017 as the year of the wildly profitable inverse-VIX trade. Yes, politics dominated public consciousness while tech stocks got the bulk of the attention in the markets realm, but at the end of the day, there was nowhere better to be than short volatility.
Two exchange-traded products used to short volatility have surged almost 200% in 2017, dwarfing returns for even the best-performing stocks in major indexes. Shorting volatility is an activity that's been met with great consternation from many market experts. The best stock market trade of 2017 doesn't involve a specific stock or sector. It instead relates to price fluctuations in equities — or in this case, the lack thereof. Two exchange-traded products betting against US stock volatility skyrocketed almost 200% in 2017 through Christmas, dwarfing returns for the hottest mega-cap tech stocks. Sure, companies like Amazon and Apple have smashed index benchmarks, but the short-volatility trade has put everything else to shame. Its success has been a direct byproduct of a market that seems to have been paralyzed by its own success. For evidence of that stasis, look no further than the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, which functions as the stock market's fear gauge and ha...