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Who is getting scammed? You have to assume that maybe JPM made some big mistakes but they are not stupid forever. They had to know that the $2 billion loss news would move the market. Set up before the news. Hit on Friday morning and made back whatever. You know you are going to move...

So JPM put on a large position. Best I have been able to figure it had something to do with the health of European companies - perhaps an aggregated pool of debt instruments? Starting the last week in April and 1st week in May something changed to cause this position to start generating mark...

I want to thank everyone who replied to this post. The link to the Nanex Report blew me away. Can't say I understood everything going on in that report but the amount of detail was certainly impressive. I had no idea so much was going on in the background.

We have some super sharp traders on ET. Would appreciate some more detail on what happened with BATS on Friday. I look at it as market orders on the bid side and some big time problems on the ask side. There also had to be some kind of matching algo at work that when there was not a bid -...

Towards the end of quarters one always hears about Window Dressing. It is described as funds that did not have winners in their portfolio buying the winners for the quarter. Is this what is really going on? I am of the opinion that it is funds with large positions in certain stocks try to...

My real question is not why someone is doing this but rather how? If you take the OI about 500 as average, how does someone get someone else to write 78,000 puts? And although the option price did go up, it seems that from just basic supply and demand that the price of the puts would have went...

Anyone care to comment on the mechanics of how something like this is pulled off - http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/03/08/d-r-horton-bear-expects-stocks-rally-to-snap/?mod=yahoo_hs Per Yahoo April 14 Puts Vol 78,419 OI 511 Day's Range .50 - .81 Previous close - .67 Open .57...

Get both. Seems the second is The Bible. The first is a bit dated but has some interesting ideas. Usually, any book has at least one useful idea.

The standard error of estimation is interpreted in the same way as the standard deviation. The standard deviation tells us how spread out a distribution of scores is with respect to the distribution mean. The standard error of estimate tells us how spread out scores are with respect to their...

It is hard to believe that there are not, to the second, information about the supply and demand for oil. Also prior price action should be able to provide some measure for expected price change given a change in a certain supply or demand factor. And yet one always gets the impression that...

I am not like lots of people that know what volume is doing min to min, but it does seem that trade vol in most equities is lower. Regardless of what Joe did in the past - 1. Does the data support that for most equities trade volume is trending down? 2. Do you think that consistently...