Recent content by morka

London has a stamp duty, why aren't companies migrating to a foreign exchange? Big players will be exempt, small fish will get fried.

The newly elected permanent EU president, announced he will push for green taxes and possibly the tobin tax.

And why am I not surprised he does not mention 80% tax on short-term CEO compensation to prevent myopic planning?

I think the main concern is that once economy recovers, the fed might keep rates low for too long.

Incidentally, that is the timeframe he mentions. Also said he think inflation will shoot up to 20-25%? That does not sound like hyperinflation, but borderline close.

In the interview he said other countries are likely to inflate as well.

Iran is big on fake usds? Serious? any links?

Marc Faber has been talking about hyperinflation for a while now, and his opinion is probably worth something, his timing my be off sometimes, but he's quite good at general trends.

1. long oil futs. 2. short USO. 3. profit ?

thinkorswim clears through penson, whose easy to borrow list isnt all that good, and it's stated right there, they wont let you short sub5 stocks.

What are good brokers for short selling? (other than IB) For some reason most don't let you short sub 5 stocks.

Most of studies posted here do not have a viable dataset, in my opinion. This is a better study of the Taiwanese market, that used entire exchange data on *every* market participant, and *all* their transactions from 1995 to 1999 (or so they told us, hehe). Sound like a solid dataset, in my...

There are no averages, obviously. It would be meaningless. If you have an edge, you'd only be limited by liquidity/risk, everyone's edge could be very different.

who makes it then, Steve?