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Vix guys like options guys say long the calendar -/+ ... Different in eneregies.... They quote by the front contract.. I trade both... I don't get into semantically arguments .. If I thought you were short vol I would just ask which contract you were short and avoid being pedantic... Nothing...

Blow out is what's happening to your money

Someone has to lose.... Do you wanna be the one... I don't... Let most be long and the exit door small...

I try to read opposing arguments... believe me its completely nonsensical the text... but when you read it you realize the logical conclusion of these ideologues

Real the communist manifesto then read a treatise on human action then talk....

can you explain what pro rat allocation model is?

repatriation .... money moves period.. you can't stop it... if you tax it more, it will move it more.. if you restrict, it will displace... it's almost exactly like water in that respect.. American's are so diluted by exponentially compounded tax slippage it's sick.. between inflation and...

I don't think there is anything risk free ..... There is always a risk.... That might be very low for GS in this case but there are risks like your fixed overhead costs might exceed the amount of times you are able to execute this so call risk free trade... Secondly you could have another desk...

How would you trade the other way for example.... Being short bonds has a cost

Ya... I would have to guess posssible more downside with the way things are going

How do you figure out the future interest rate vol you might have to sustain!!!

Maybe enter on any threats of interest rate hikes for better entry...I like Eurodollars

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I think you need to be more specific about what your talking about doing.... Shorting treasuries is a very difficult thing to do... As you hold them they roll toward maturity and speaking in terms of interest rate curve your Rollin down the curve... Meaning the bonds notional value goes up over...

Semantics..... This isn't really worth talking about in this respect... Some talk about trading and think baseball cards or coins...

Give me an example of an arb that's risk free and I'll tell you how it's not..... This strict definition is not useful... It's more aligned with the ideology that you can't make money as a retailer arbing liquity differentials or anything else... Trading dispersion or any pair trading... What...

Define arb... Static.. Statistical.... This is an abstract notion... Strictly no one makes a risk free profit... A market maker has different cost structures but still is not making a risk free return... If your selling stock against a synthetic long position you exposure to raates and pin...

rom Wicksell, whose Interest and Priceswas published in 1898, Mises borrowed the idea that the bank rate of interest sometimes diverges from the "natural" rate of interest, so called by Wicksell. The natural rate, which excludes all monetary influences, was taken by Mises to be the interest rate...

Fed manipulating doesn't do anything but skew things... The natural rate of interest is something that exists outside of the fed... Fed trying to control has the effect of bounding up natural forces.... The natural rate is a free market idea... Which has nothing to do with the feds attempt to...

Yes ... I actually called when I first started out.... I would never reco a newsletter....