Recent content by Klamath

Sounds like an arbitrage opportunity.

How do you figure?

I'm thinking about shorting amzn, does that count?

That's been my thought reading through this whole thread. Case in point: ...even though it's still up strong on the day...

back up.

I am. My real account timed out, and I can't log back in, my simulator account is ok, though.

...wages [are taxed]. But oddly enough, financial transactions are exempt from tax. What kind of muddled thinking is this? Wage income is taxed, as is income from investments. A better analogy would be, "Getting a job or losing a job isn't taxed, so why should getting into or out of an...

Based on where ng is right now, it looks like about 12.20 for UNG, of course that can change.

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/090707/ung8-k.html

Didn't quite work out that way, did it?

Not very liquid, are they? Especially TYO.

Check the ES volume in the last 5 minutes too.

That's similar to something I've been wondering about with inverse ETFs. Wouldn't it always be better to go short the long ETF than long the inverse, since then you would have fees, expenses, trading costs etc. working for you instead of against?

I'm not sure if figured this right, but using your numbers, over those 18 months UNG underperformed the futures by about 22%. That seems pretty expensive to me, or did I figure something wrong?

By "not continuous" you mean that you can't get updates until a contract expires?