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+1 to Bloomberg Radio. I particularly enjoy Tom Keane and Ken Prewitt in the mornings on my commute to the office. I can honestly say I've learned some stuff and gained insights from their show, guests[1], commentary, and interviews. And there's a good dose of intelligent snark as well...

I was long a bunch of EUO May 20s that I got rather cheaply on a speculative "wtfnot?" trade 3 weeks ago going into French and Greek elections. They returned a nice 125-200% depending on when I sold 'em going into expiraton week. In terms of correlation to the /6E it was about 200 pip move...

Some decent corporate bonds, floating-rate notes, and even some LT-agency backed stuff, for example. But as I said, risk is what each of us takes it to be. Nothing is risk-free and I'm not committing all my cash to any one thing, either. It works for me and I sleep well at night. YMMV.

I never said the investment purports itself as riskless - it's what I believe the risk to be based on my own judgment. You do your things your way, I'll do my things my way. If we differ in our approach but still are comfortable in our decisions and positions and can sleep well at night, who...

My own eyes, ears, research, and assessment of the markets at any given time.

I never said what I was doing was risk-free or the equivalent of making a bank deposit. You still need to watch things -- but rather than earn .000000001 at Bank of Serta (or Sealy) I'll take 2 or 3 percent on it with slightly more elevated risk.

Since there's not much out there I want to own longterm at these prices / macro conditions, I'm hoarding a big chunk of cash and starting to park it in short- or intermediate-term bond funds or a few CEFs based on IG bonds overseas until I need it.

I wouldn't say one "trades" preferred stock but generally buys and holds it to reap the dividend and appreciation to-and-above-par for the long haul. At least that's what I do until I determine otherwise. :) Strategy-wise? I generaly look for a good, safe company that fits my needs, with...

In the age of dark pools, HFTs, algos, and central bank-induced volatility, I really think this should be the day trader's theme for 2012 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg (sorry, couldn't resist.....)

It was the swordsman who did the fight scenes as Vader that died -- the guy who *was* Vader (ie credited & non-fighting scenes) is David Prowse, whom I believe is still alive and force-choking idiots everywhere. ;) Yes, I am a SW geek, I admit it.

For me the feed is just fine, but if you're scalping via a DOM then yeah, TOS can be problematic. I am annoyed that they've *still* not fixed a 'bug' in the client's Account Settings pane that will tell you what stock paid your dividend. Right now, you just see something like "ORDINARY...

Trade-or-Pay is a new thing to me ..... I need to contact TS, because I've been forking out $65/mo for ICE data to trade the /TF since July when I switched over to TS as my platform.

I don't mind making ONE trade a month to get the discounted rate for data used to trade /TF. Better than $75 bucks! However, I do have a problem being forced to make multiple trades per month just to get fees waived to use a certain trading platform.

Dunno....you need to ask them.

Their trading platform is/was pretty solid -- I used it for a few years until 2010 when I took a forray into TradeStation. While I love TS, since I'm not trading on a daily basis, I can't justify their platform fee + the various data fees, nor do I believe in minimum-trades to justify them...

FYI it is a good idea to IMMEDIATELY erase your browser cache if you got hit by that degenirate's kiddiepr0n thread. Even "accidental" crusing into or being redirected to a childpr0n site or access to those photos is illegal and if anyone -- ie system admins, IT staff, or whomever -- detects...

I think INDY is in danger of being delisted. It's been a pennystock for the past 12 weeks with no sign of recovery. :) :(

Yeah, I wonder how many Packer fans adhere to the no-betting clause. :) But I agree, this is a cool thing if you're a sports fan.

From what I hear it's more of a $250 piece of Packer memoribilia with "rights" to attend the shareholder meeting than something akin to "stock" like what you'd expect from stocks trading on the NYSE. Still, for Packer fans, it's a nice way to show their support, foster community, and raise...

Thanks! You have a good evening, too.