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Public service announcement to anyone who thinks they're being in any way clever or funny or cute or anything but moronic...stop appending some word to the first or last syllable of the person/place/thing in some failed sophomoric attempt to insult. Libtard, trumptard, fakebook...just stop already!

The tax cut (lack of) impact I think is significant. It was supposed to pay for itself which would require significant GDP growth. If that doesn't happen, and it isn't happening, it doesn't pay for itself and that is bearish.

I wouldn't use availability at one broker as any guage of anything. The short lending market is famously opaque and idiosyncratic by broker because there is no national broker or NBBO type requirement. Very possible if you'd checked 10 minutes later or at another broker they would have a...

Not to mention if you log in from your phone it's a different IP address than your home which is different from your office which is different from the local Starbucks which is different from the other local Starbucks....in short IP tracking is a very poor way to identify multiple logins from...

Much like the new European General Data Protection Regulation I'm not sure how they could possibly enforce such a penalty on a non-us company for breaking a completely U.S. specific law that neither Estonia nor St. Vincent and the Grenadines has an analog for. They're not going to enforce such a...

I've done test wires between accounts at 2 different banks using our company's treasury management service and it was literally the time it took me to log into the second bank account (60 seconds). And the second bank account was a credit union, so I expected the delay to happen there, but they...

I'd add that the wiring departments of pretty much every broker are stuck in the 1950s. No reason in the world a properly verified login shouldn't be able to enter a wire request online and have the money in their bank account within minutes, but instead you're lucky to have it by the next day.

Wait a minute, you're supposedly an "asswipe" on his ignore list as well! I guess I'm confused on how this whole ignore concept works, silly me I thought when you ignored someone you couldn't see their posts any more and hence wouldn't be responding to them. It is funny how the most obnoxious...

You can always buy a Treasury in your name with your full account balance and then margin it to trade if you're concerned. It costs a tiny bit to do that, but you're essentially un-impacted by potential failure of the FCM and can choose based on service and price vice failure risk which may be...

You may want to check your list, the fact that I can see your post must mean I'm no longer on that list and we wouldn't want that! It's funny, as I recall the really hard work I had to do to become an "asswipe" on your list was to accurately claim that I'm a retired military officer, and have...

For sure. I'm talking 20-50 SPX contract spreads, where the desk is death. I think the smaller size and the fact that they're spreads are a factor. Also, the electronic SPX market is just really efficient, I pretty much always get the mid or just off mid there if it's a true mid and within a...

I hate the desk when it comes to SPX options! In thousands and thousands of trades I've never had a price improvement when my order gets "sent to the desk" and I do miss out on the electronic exchange as my order just sits there. In the end I have to break it up into smaller chunks so it doesn't...

Funny, the schools I went to discussed economics quite a lot, using a standard set of definitions and terms and standard sets of data to back up those terms. Yours? You stated "the real economy of the world has gone nowhere", which is categorically false. You did not state "the number of full...

Thinking about this some more, I wonder if it might also be valuable to figure out somehow if the dispersion is caused by "stale" forecasts, i.e. your outliers might just be analysts who haven't updated their numbers yet? Not sure of a great way to do this, just throwing the idea out.

Don't you wish we could go back to the days of laissez faire and GDP per capita was a fraction of what it is now. Do you also go around whining about "kids these days" and how you remember when you could buy a candy bar for a nickel?

I don't have experience with it but it does sound interesting. You may be able to code a backtest on this with Quantopian, I think they have earnings forecasts data you can access although maybe not by individual like you would need.

About as legitimate as you are. In fact exactly as legitimate since you're one and the same entity!

On my phone your thread title showed up as "How do you measure the dispersion of anal..." in the thread list. I know, totally juvenile, but made me laugh nonetheless.

For questions like this they invented this handy document called the prospectus! Every ETF is different, there isn't really a pat answer to the question.

Not really a big difference in a couple areas, like that we don't expect self-dealing in either one and it's equally detrimental in either one. Is there another ATS where the ATS owner trades on their own ATS? And they're the only market maker? Crazy.