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Tired of watching the same rubbish on Netflix? Check out some of the below documentaries:

Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI: 1971 – Fascinating history of some hippies who decided to up the game from peaceful protests and investigate the innerworkings of the FBI–potentially spending the rest of their lives in prison.

Maya Angelou on Facing Evil Amazing public lecture and documentary about Maya Angelou.

James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley Debate Wow–it’s a shame that voices, debates and discussions like this one seem to be of a bygone era. James Baldwin and Buckley debate the American Dream in England in 1965.

Blues Under the Skin (1973) Obscure Blues Documentary French documentary about Blue musicians.

Imagine The Sound – 1981 – Canadian Classic Free Jazz Documentary Film This is a real classic that has legendary video of piano playing from Cecil Taylor. If you’re not into free jazz–get over yourself and check out the amazing musicianship in this film.

Sun Ra–Brother from Another Planet Sun Ra–Jazz Musician, Afrofuturist, Astronaut, Social/Political thinker, all around bad ass mother fucker.

Bill Evans on the Creative Process and Self-Teaching Conversation With His Brother Harry, 1966 – Amazing chat and video of Bill Evans. Some really interesting thoughts and ideas about jazz, listening to music, and how to create and be creative.

Fun to Imagine with Richard Feynman This is an amazing documentary that has Feynman–one of the most brilliant minds–talking in plain language about the physics in the world around us. Definitely the sort of film that will have you thinking…

On Two Fronts--the history of Latinos fighting in the Vietnam War

Edward Snowden – Terminal F (2015) History of Snowden’s weeks in Hong Kong and his flight to Russia.

Burden of Dreams– This is a crazy documentary about Werner Herzog’s attempt to make a film in Peru. Herzog rambles insane existential mumbo-jumbo throughout and the jungle is filmed beautifully.

F For Fake – a wild ride through forgeries, hoaxes, and trickery with Orson Welles

For all Mankind – Apollo Mission with soundtrack by Brian Eno. Super cool stuff.

Gemini – This is a cool documentary about the Gemini space program that preceded the Apollo program to the Moon. It was the first time space engineers and astronauts learned how to navigate in outer space including the first few spacewalks.

Hi,

During quarantine I’ve been reading through Sheldon Natenburg’s Option Valuation and in Chapter 4 (?) he discusses the ‘hockey stick’ graphs. These are graphs that demonstrate the profit of different option strategies. I love graphs and charts so I decided to write a program to generate these graphs and host it online: https://heythatsmyinternet.shinyapps.io/opt_val/

These graphs compare the profit or loss of an option based on the final settlement price. It takes as inputs the type of option (put or call), Buy or Sell, Strike Price, the Cost (premium) into account and determines what the final return will be. Expiration dates are not considered.

So for instance, below Option 1 is a Call that costs 5 and the strike price is 80. Below 80 the purchaser will just be out 5. Above the strike price, the owner will start to make money represented by the upward crook in the graph. at 85, the user will break even. They will receive a return of 5 for the option they paid 5 for. For settlements above this price the user will start to make a profit. The logic is the same for Puts or Calls, Buys or Sells at different prices and costs.

Multiple options can be charted on the same graph and the cumulative profit and loss of the option strategy can also be calculated and displayed:

Enter your option inputs in the top panel and see the graph change accordingly. Below the graph is a table showing the numerical output.

I built it in R and used Shiny server to make it interactive and host it online.