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Tried to delete thread to accommodate you, and shorten the title - it won't let me. This isn't 1st time ET system tells me I don't 'have permission to access' my own thread for deletion, guys.

Hedging is an attempt to minimize your losses in case your 'bets' go wrong. Isn't it really that simple? Think of the airliner that 'hedges' against fuel prices going higher by locking in at a 'set' price with a supplier for a specific period of time.

See my cholesterol thread in Chit Chat. If you thing total cholesterol is of any significance, you've been sold a bill of goods by big pharma. There are plenty of links in the aforementioned thread that will shed light on this fact. Go forth, and liberate your minds and bodies.

I'm not one to laugh at anyone else's failure, but given his INCREDIBLY ANNOYING PERSONA, for him, I can make an exception. Remember the 'free money,' 'cuz I know how stocks werk,' 'don't fight the fed' days? Yeah. I do. LMFAO. Keep praying, turder. WERD!!!

http://eastcoasteconomics.wordpress.com/ Answer: Less that the likely total aggregate cost of the 'bailout,' yes, in today's dollars. East Coast Economics Putting Things Into Perspective: The Bailout The government is adding to the bailout tab almost daily, and no slowdown is in...

http://static.seekingalpha.com/article/115525-the-scariest-chart-ever Here is a chart of borrowing by U.S. banks from the Federal Reserve through Dec. 2007: Now, same chart through December 2008: Anyone still think there are not some rough patches down the road? Editor's...

Yeah, well, Buffet is pretty old and has made some of the stupidest moves of his life lately, and will die pretty soon, so I wouldn't be looking to him or his moves for any credible guidance right now...

Okay, it looks, rather convincingly, as if we're setting up for below 7000 on the Dow rather soon. Trends intensify beyond our wildest expectations, to the upside and downside, no? The sad ending to this chapter is how badly beaten the world is going to feel, and the number of people who...

Here's the best I can do in an attempt to provide what I believe is a rational answer: If by 'gambling' you mean that the participants have less influence over the outcome of the game than the market maker, due to WHATEVER reasons may be (e.g. front running, etc.), then yes. If not, no.

Here it is undergoing extensive testing:

Here's some advice for you, son: Don't portend to give 'fatherly' advice to people wiser than you. Go to the woods with that gem, and take a shit.

Define gambling and you can find the answer you desperately want.

Very possibly. Iger (Disney CEO) called the economy 'the worst we've seen in our lifetime.'

By the way, if you think stick_trd3r will lose money in 2009, give this thread 5 stars. Thanks.

...GTFO!!!!!!! Seriously? Kraft & Costco can't meet artificially suppressed earnings???

I have been in the woods for years at a time. I have been to Walden at the dead of winter. You think that you actually know me? What do you really know?

'Do no harm.' If the condition can not be properly and confidently diagnosed, therefore, the proper treatment or response protocol can not be devised or implemented, do nothing. Doing anything at such a point only exponentially increases the odds that harm will be done to the patient.

If you think stock_turd3r is a douche, give this thread 5 stars.