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What I don't like about Twitter is that there is too many jokes and sarcasm, forces you to double check everything. ZH is the worst offender

ATPG might be traded this way too. Problem is that sometimes the company just files without having the event leaking out

I will probably just cover everything tomorrow to prevent any nonsense squeeze. This might be the best way to play bankrupt stocks. I made some nice gains yet I traded badly. My trading software was flashing new lows on PCX for quite a long time before I decided to take a look at it Then I...

True. I took a bit of profits here. Still there must be some buyers who think bk wont happen at all

IB doesn't have shares to short right now but amazingly after the rumors there were a lot of shares to short for a long-time. They kept disappearing and reappearing

Shorted PCX after the rumors. Avg 0.844. Still holding the short. Equity likely worthless in bk and chance of rumors being wrong are less than 5% in my view

I shorted a bit after the rumors and I'm still holding some shares short. Its amazing how the stock didn't tank more.

This strikes me as a great idea http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/technology/at-hacker-hostels-living-on-the-cheap-and-dreaming-of-digital-glory.html?pagewanted=all

My charting package won't let me go that far. 2min would be perfect

Stocks are going down, US economy is creating too many jobs lol

The sharpe ratio for profitable trading systems that have lots of opportunities during the day is huge. It gets to a point where its more meaningful to talk about actual profits

How does that work at the broker level?The short would be offset by the long and thus closing out the short. Is BT just providing an illusion that have 2 positions and separating the PLs?

Here's a solution, quantifiable value investing http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/97001708?access_key=key-277kw4gpzmb8o27srpuv Really nice paper there, one can do even better than value investors using rules and formulas for investing. Also it appears that for long-term cash its superior to...

Point is, stock market prices will factor in those considerations better than the most investors most of the time. Buffett might not have to be worried about 20% declines in his stocks, John from HR does

Monish Pabrai provided a great example, he took comfort in sayings like 'volatility is not risk' from Buffett, so he kept buying a bunch of high vol stocks that the market was uncertain about, he got killed in a number on them(He trails the market since 2007 by several basis points). The market...

I'm a fan of sharing lots of trade ideas as well, I try to put out mine and analyze the ones put forward by other people as much as possible. But I'm also a huge fan of mastering the 'fundamentals', that is, how to think correctly about markets, finance, economics, order execution, broker...

Can you explain more how to do this procedure?

The EFPs thing will earn a rate similar to libor with the credit risk of the clearinghouse(minus commissions and spread)

People are making a lot of drama about very little " Henry Blodget ‏@hblodget RT @SullyCNBC: Careful on JPM story: @andrewrsorkin saying actual loss may be much less than $9b... right now likely $4-6B"

Been reading some studies to build more confidence in my short trading in these sorts of stocks Heres 2 interesting ones: http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~campbell/papers/campbellhilscherszilagyi_jf2008.pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1189805 The first finds that...