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http://www.sogotrade.com/Home/InterestRates.aspx It says that the base rate is 4.25% but that is of Oct 30, 2008. Is this the current rate, or is there a new rate?

I wonder what it would look like if you compared gdp per person rather then overall GDP. For example, Delaware and Bangladesh have the same GDP but Delaware's population is 850 thousand, while Bangladesh's is 150 million.

You might like this better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jEb7F5o_AY

Good Stuff!

It happens from time to time, usually when the basket arb exists. They will drop it from being borrowable even though they have it, just so you have to call the loan desk.

That's why you buy the call, you use the call when the market is above 9%. Return is SP + 2%

ok lets try this one. There are annuties(yes dreaded annuties) that offer 0 - 9% on the SP. So market goes down 10% your return is 0; market goes up 13%, you gain 9%. So if you combined that with Selling a Put that is at the money and buying a Call that is 9% away, your gain on the trade is...

Will the SSO and QLD pay a double dividend? Are they trying to peg the ratio of the SPY to the SSO to start at 1.75? Will the inverse products owe a dividend? I am also curious if the inverse products will pay interest for being long. There had been some mutal funds that do this(profunds...

Earnings.com Most people know about this one, but I still havent found a better corportate action calander site.

www.earnings.com it has a very comprehensive list including OTCBB and some Canada

Does anyone know how to filter out ETF's on custom screens from trade ideas?

Then, in response to your orginal question, it would be of the upmost importance to get every trade possible. A one trade difference yields could be the difference between a losing system and a winning system, since each trade is about 3 percent of the system.

Your question is the bain of many traders, and is often the key to a trading system failure. The first posters are absolutely correct, in that you need to take a random sample period of time and see if you receive the 55/45 results that you indicated you had. Then if you had not done so...