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They do look good. The thing is that these refiners have hedged their profits away. Check out some earnings reports. Especially WNR. Their profits should have gone up 30%+, but they were hedged all the way. And they have been using their profits to pay off debt. Which is a good thing in the long...

Gotcha, awesome setup!

Very nice. Are you trading on a Mac? What charting software is it, that you are using? -SL

U usually get them for free at Interactive Brokers. So you don't have to subscribe to anything! -Dave

Yeah, just making sure ET doesn't close my account because of inactivity. I was just showing the difference, not attacking anybody. It's unbelievable how short-tempered you guys are. -SL

Quote from NielsenDK: It used to be 0.25% Then the AFL-CIO came out with 0.10% Now, the European socialists are proposing 0.01% to 0.05% for all global transactions to be discussed at G20. http://www.reuters.com/article/mark...LB1366720090911 At least the worst case scenario seems...

0.01% would be $100,000 * 0.0001 * 2 * 250 days = $5,000. 0.1% would be $50,000. -SL

In holland there's this firm that did a monster trade in options last year. There was this German stock, that went ex dividend, and there was a market maker who quoted those options as if they haven't gone ex dividend yet. This dutch firm saw this and spend the entire day buying those wrong...

A market maker puts in bids/offers. It depends on how big the marketmaker/firm is, as in how big their volume is. The bigger their volume, the lower their commissions/clearing fees are, the tighter they can make the spreads. The more business they get. The more they make!

1 monitor or 100, what does it matter. As long as it makes you money, right! Very nice and clean!

Some banks were leveraged up to 50:1. So 5000 ???

Yeah I remember an interview on CNBC with him last year, where he predicted this sell off in the equity markets.

I wouldn't know about Angus Young? Metal detectors are not really my thing. But every know and then you see some old man walking in a field with a metal detector, though.

Well, today it's green and sunny. But yesterday it was freezing and snowing. haha. These pictures were taken a few months ago. I'm located in The Netherlands, in the south to be precise.

Well actually, there's no sun shining in! When the US markets open, it's 3:30 p.m. here. And the sun is out of my windows at 1:00 p.m. I arrive at the office at 2:00 p.m. So no problems with brightness. The pictures were taken in the morning. Well, it's not a city office, that's a fact...