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Haha, this stuff is real funny... That Kirby guy is smth else! As to the other article, I couldn't even bring myself to read it.

This is a silly argument and I expect you know it, GoC...

Try to contain yourself... :) I like BBG a lot more, but I have a lot less experience with Reuters, so I am likely to be biased.

I don't know what you're looking for, but I am pretty sure you're looking in the wrong place. Why don't you put together an Excel sheet that would allow you to see how any combination of option behaves under different scenarios (using simple BSM)? You'll be able to answer a lot of your...

Here's my view, if anyone cares. There is no setup, no magic bullet, no single systematically winning strategy. Spreads, flies, condors, whatever will work, if you buy them cheap/sell them expensive and will not work if you do the opposite. That's all there is to it. The difficult bit is...

If memory serves, I said that your backtesting methodology, as you described it, looked rigorous and reasonably well-designed. However, I never saw anything more than the general description (you were unable/unwilling to provide anything more than that), so I wouldn't have been able to say...

Here you go: http://www.nuclearphynance.com/User%20Files/2/Dispersion%20-%20A%20guide%20for%20the%20clueless%201.1.pdf

I didn't see this marvellous passage, 'cause it looks like you added it later. I just have one question. "Hanged and jailed", what does that mean? Hanged first, then jailed? Or jailed first, hanged later? Or some hanged and some jailed? Or do you mean "hanged while imprisoned"? Also, I...

Oh no, what should I do now? I don't know if I can continue living with the knowledge that you're out there thinking only the worst about me.

Wow, you saw right through me. I am Uncle Sam and Bernanke is my last name. Still, you may want to be a wee bit more specific. What sort of consent am I manufacturing and what disinformation am I spreading? [B] I am extremely curious what feats of deductive reasoning you used to conclude...

I don't get it... Aren't all gold and silver coins issued by the Federal govt legal tender already, regardless of what the state of Utah lawmakers decide? Seems like a rather idiotic thing to do, just for the sake of "sending a message".

I don't really want to join the discussion here, since it covers the same ground as the T2W one. However, as a (somewhat active) participant of the T2W thread, I am curious who the "respected members" you're referring to are, Howard?

Hahaha, you're quoting the SocGen dynamic duo! The famous storytellers, Dylan and Albert. While they're certainly interesting and even shocking (by macro strategists' standards), there's unfortunately a lot less substance there, now that Montier has left. At any rate, as usual the story...

Well, actually, now that you mention it, I was long the fronts in Euribor, but managed to get out roughly flat yest, which was a result. Believe it or not. As to the ECB, I just cannot understand how you reconcile the two last paragraphs you have written. As I said and as you seemed to...

Well, this is mightily inconsistent of you, ralph... Firstly, you state that CPI numbers are all bollox, but then you applaud the central bank that cares solely and exclusively about the number (EUR HICP). How does that make any sense? Secondly, who do you think created the Spanish/Irish...

I got a funny feeling that you're gonna tell us...

I wouldn't have a problem with it, if there was an agency in the Eurozone that can deal with the intra-European imbalances. However, everyone has now basically said that it's the other guy's problem. Makes me extremely bearish about the EMU's prospects.

Tightened today... Sorry, was too busy getting raped by Tricky and his bunch of merry Central Bankers. It's all gonna end in tears.

It must feel good for Mssr. Hildebrand to go from a being a PM at a small $15bn AUM hedge fund (Moore) to running his own somewhat larger hedge fund (the SNB).

I think you should take a look at AUDNZD, Daal...