Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Investing in Emerging Markets" video.

  1. One of the problems with "emerging markets" is the definition is extremely arbitrary and skewed to include countries with low costs of living regardless of their actual development.
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  2. China was just a national ponzi scheme. Russia was always was a developed market
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  3. The category is based on simple dollar values, not actual development. It doesn't matter that cost of living is dirt cheap in Russia and really expensive in Greece, the dollars per capita is higher in Greece. This is why the index returns seem random.
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  4. Stock options are a zero sum game.
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  5. @Sleepless  it literally isn't. The thing about options is that assuming an efficient market the prices of all options reflects the probability of stuff happening. While the price of a share reflects the Federal interest rate plus a premium equal to risk taken.
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  6.  @sleepless2541  active management is not the stock market
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  7. @Cesar Gaming and Vlogs  Yes, the Federal interest rate is baked in, but unlike an actual loan the actual volatility of what you're buying is also priced in. The only potential exception are expirations way out in the future and that are really deep in the money, but those assets behave more like shares anyway.
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  8. @Sleepless  just because they buy individual shares at discretion does not make it active management. Think of it this way: If you have tens of millions to invest it's cheaper to buy all the stocks in an index yourself than it is to buy a passive index.
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  9.  @cesaresp101  it's the Greeks. Vega, gamma, rho, delta, and so forth. There's a math formula for giving fair value
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  10. In hindsight, it appears that Chinese stocks reflect economics more than their GDP numbers.
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  11. Get drafted.
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