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kristjanssonyesterday at 3:52 PM1 replyview on HN

There are cash settled futures there are closer to options in that they’re purely financial, but even those don’t have optionality at maturity.

Generally a dangerous thing to have as synonyms regardless, otherwise you end up with a coal barge in the east river https://thedailywtf.com/articles/special-delivery


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KellyCriterionyesterday at 8:10 PM

Remembering: WTF was quite popular 20 years ago! :)

Regarding this story: I guess for most private participants, physical delivery is not possible/excluded

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