Recent content by mbv

I have looked at this stuff but never found anything worth doing for me. Those things can trade at their big deviations from NAV for a long time. I looked at a number of CEFs vs their NAVs over the past few years and a 10% did not seem like a big discount to me; by which I mean, if I had tried...

My understanding is that there's a number of okayed methodologies for assigning options. For example, first-in-first-out (FIFO), and random assignment. (I know of no others.) My question is, where does an option seller go, who prefers the random assignment method, instead of FIFO...

What I don't get about this edge test is what happens with commissions? Let's say you've got 1000 trades that you look at over a very short timeframe. And 80% are losers (thanks to commissions). Well if your system does better than 70% but still is losing money to commissions, that's not a...

You should ask TradeWeb themselves. & post their answer here :)

thank you!

Does anyone understand these prices: GG Jan'09 Calls Strike/Ticker/Bid/Ask 25.00 OPJAE.X 7.50 7.80 25.00 VHRAE.X 22.20 22.90 :confused: How can there be such different prices for the same strike and expiration? What's different about the contracts?

How can I find out about the structure of a company's debt? I'm looking at companies at finance.yahoo.com under their key statistics and see a number for the company's debt. But I have no idea when what portion of debt matures, etc., and I'd like to find out that information, but don't know...

Oops. I want to know if it's possible to short individual corporate bonds. Now, I have never seen futures that let me do that. Do they exist (in the retail world)? As for 'why do you want to short them' ... I never said I wanted to short them. I said, where does a retail trader go who...

Where does a retail trader go who wants to sell a bond short? And what are the margin requirements like?

investment valuation damodaran is also a goodie

I have a few beginner's questions about trades that occur between the bid and ask. I've done several hours of research on this but haven't found an answer. I pulled up a Level 2 for an illiquid NASDAQ stock with a large spread and see trade volume increase, while the bid and offer aren't...