Recent content by hdawg87

Stiglitz is a pretty good economist but as with all economists he has his biases and so his arguments can be fairly biased because of that.

Haha I didn't pose the question to be a jackass but more to see if anyone else had a problem with that. I now trade with 3 30" Apple Cinema Displays that I have bought over the past couple years. When buying each subsequent monitor I just looked at the model number and bought the same one...

Is it just me or does anyone get put off by monitors that don't match? I've found that it really distracts me when I have monitors that are multiple sizes/models unless they're organized REALLY well (like cinemassive).

I wouldn't go as far as to say that Apple will go the way of Broadcomm but it will get hit by this. I don't believe that Apple cannot function without Jobs but I do think that it will take them (and the stock price) some time to recover from this hit.

Programming and math skills are required to do many different things in the 'biz' (trading or other financial modelling). One of the reasons people will use programming is for the development of 'black box' trading and backtesting applications. By programming their own system that interfaces...

I haven't read this entire threat but obviously you are referring to the EMH which has been refuted multiple times. You are trying to make an argument analogous to that of a gambler saying that poker is a zero-sum game utilizing random chance and therefore you cannot make money at it in the long...

Hi everybody, Does anyone have any idea where I can find OHLC data (or any type of Bullish Percent Data) for the NYSE Bullish Percent Index without recreating the charts? Thanks in advance!

Guys I'm buying $100 million in oil futures right now with a price target of 100 points on the upside and 100 points on the downside. Since oil can't go negative its a pretty foolproof trade. Everyone else should do it too because I'm the smartest trader alive and I make foolproof long term...

Ok so what exactly is SPM?

There is no such thing as an option without time decay. Options, by their very nature, decay as it gets closer to expiration.

yayt, I'm not seeing where NPK is in a trading range on the long term P&F scale. From what it looks like it just broke out of a quad top and there was a buy at 60. Here's the chart I'm looking at: http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.pnf?c=npk,P Also, what is your targeting method that...

RFT I believe that he said 'stooges in congress' and last time I checked neither Paulson nor Bernanke were in the congress.

Pretty sure meaning that I believe that you did but I don't really want to go back through 40 pages of notes and check. It means I'm lazy, not incompetant.

Using a delta is a rough estimation of the probability of expiration. If both of the legs have a delta of exactly 30 then there is a 30% chance of expiration. If you are doing some kind of ratio condor or other variation on the plain-vanilla condor you would have to throw the spread into some...