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100% financing...<b>100% financing??!!</b>

I'll tell you who is buying in NYC, rich parents who figure a nice starter condo is a good "investment" for their 27-year old children who only make 40K/yr and can't afford to pay their rent on their one bedroom apt. Well, that 800K one bedroom condo is a nice gift, but it's just a matter of...

if you're looking at just pure return by a professional money manager over, say, a decade, then ed seykota killed him...over 60% annualized return, net of fees.

bump if you can help me with the question above. another lingering question i have is why do i end up losing money if i leverage the SP500 short at 8X from Jan-1-00-Jan-1-03, but making money leveraging the SP500 short at 4X? hmmm....

thanks for the response. interesting that some rydex etf products are offered, but you're right...it's a no on the funds.

Specifically, does anyone know if I can purchase a mutual fund such as Rydex or ProFunds at IB, then use that as margin collateral for futures trading? thanks in advance

rydex and profunds do it, so i'm guessing we can too. but what if we want to leverage more than they do without blowing up? for example, how would you construct an 8X long only or 8X short only fund for the SP, that rebalances daily? in a perfect world without much volatility this seems like...

I just moved to China...what strikes me is the fact that there are huge malls with tons of good priced at the level of dept store goods in the US and Western Europe...but there are VERY FEW shoppers. if you go to one of these malls, you will find <b>hundreds</b> of clerks, and a handful of...

need for shelter = constantly high rela estate prices is not an equation i can endorse. what people don't understand is that in most countries houses are shared with three generations. yes houses are shelter, but there is definitely room for more people under one roof, that is to say people will...

yeah housing is slowing, but at market tops you get weak breadth. some areas will be hitting new highs, some areas, like SD will be dying off...might want to wait til the summer time to pull the trigger on housing based shorts...

four drinks and a strip club visit is the easiest way for me to lose money. and i have fun doing it, as opposed to losing via futures, options or stocks.

totally depends on the producer. a lot of companies list on the web sites and in their calls how much it costs to extract. i think Yamana (AUY) is aiming for about 250/oz. EGO is closer to 300-350. I have some of their estimated costs and production targets in a spread sheet somewhere...

new thoughts...the gold stocks are way stronger than i thought. thought they would correct hard amid the drop in gold and general weakness in the broad stock market. ha, well boy was i wrong. many started to break out to new highs. i'm long term bullish on gold and tried some shorts on the very...

you can hear gave's goofy thesis in mp3 format here: http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2005/Gave.html my favorite part of that interview is when gave claims that the democrats are the party that champions free markets. i'm not making a political judgement here, just introducing the idea...

10/31/05 also has the tinyest of gaps. that would bring us down to 2089, were it filled.

there appears to be a decent sized gap in the Nasdaq chart in early Sep. (11/03/05 to be exact). Any thoughts on whether or not this gets closed soon? i read a report that said that gaps of 2% or more get filled almost 95% of the time within 60 days. not sure of those are trading days or...

the year ain't over yet. ain't over til it's over.

i think we'll see $1000 before we see $400

and faber just seems like a tool anyway...the guy that could never make it into a frat, but still hung around the frat parties

watched him one day with my GF and we reached the same conclusion that it really seemed like he and joe kernan despised each other. they were subtley dissing each other during a mid-market dialogue.