Recent content by toryj

I'm wondering if it's possible to profit from cash tender offers using calendar spreads. Roche, for example, is offering $95 per share for the stake in Genentech (DNA) that they don't already own. I used the optionsXpress trade calculator for an Apr 90/Sep 90 calendar spread but the P&L...

$1.90 now.

$1.00. It's at $1.35 now, and ITM.

I bought a 20/22.5 bull call spread when it dropped to 20 recently. I think we're going to see the VIX trading between 20 and 30 for quite a while.

Paul Tudor Jones wrote the forward, 'nuff said.

You should wait for the "Mac Pro" to come out later this month, then you can run Parallels and have the best of both worlds.

Wouldn't high oil prices kill off the weaker airlines and allow the strong companies to finally take control of the industry?

http://www.sprott.com/pdf/TheVisibleHand.pdf

Why Debian? You're probably better off using Ubuntu. FYI, it's based off of Debian.

Oh, I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with trend following; just that the book is crap. It doesn't say anything about the methods that are used or how to build a trend following system, it's all just filler and promotional material for his website.

Are you joking? That book is garbage.

I'm reading "The Logical Trader" by Mark Fisher and "Options and Options Trading: A Simplified Course That Takes You From Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes" by Robert Ward. Here's a video of Fisher talking about his ACD method. He's really funny and the video is definitely worth watching.

I doubt it. Besides, anyone who works for a firm like that has probably signed a zillion non-disclosure agreements and wouldn't be able to tell us anything. Edit: By the way, there's an interview with Steven Cohen in Stock Market Wizards. It's well worth reading.

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