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advice and I beg you to heed it: when you start trading, do it out of the money with 1 x 1 spreads in the same month. do this for at least a year. the risk reward will be easy to picture and you won't lose your hard-earned $ in the complexity.

you're saying that the put and call for the same strike responded differently to the split? if so, then put/call parity has broken down, which is a $ making opportunity except in the case of dividends.

all true, but one must also keep in mind that Black-Sholes is only one of many formulas and none of them hold true, just as CAPM, the accepted academic calculus for stock pricing does not hold.

speaking of foreignors, they are not just keeping yields low by buying our bonds, but also by providing cheap labor. one of the key inputs to inflation is employment, which causes wage pressure. long as there are bountiful chinese and Indians to take are jobs (and there will be for at least...

"Could someone explain the above phenomenon. Why would interests rates go down instead of up?" interest rates run inversely to the price of bonds, because a bond is issued with a fixed $ amount of interest. thus, if one pays more for the bond, shile the $ interest remains same, their %...

sounds like you've got the perfect reason to go to b-school: career change. put your heart into that test -- it makes all the difference.

another question: what's better, figuring out what are the hottest right now, or what WILL be the hottest tomorrow?

more on Rodgers -- and Soros, who is Rodgers sole reason for any reputation, says Rodgers always talked big and could never pull the trigger.

i laugh every time I see someone quote Jim Rodgers -- see above. He made a speech in '96 in which he said the US markets (menaing the financial industry, not investments) would be struggling for their survival w/in a few yrs and that countries all over the world were eating our lunch. It was...

to prior question in thread: "Can anyone name a single instance of a howeowner or small business receiving a notice of adjustable rate mortgage rate increase?" I guess you're trying to prove that the pendulum is about to reverse direction... or do you think that interest rates are going to...

one of 2 things is going to happen. rents rise a ton, or house prices fall. no way they continue to diverge to this degree. see a chart...

interesting, at least, for this is a new phenomenom. witness the disclaimers at the start of the show... it's a whole prospectus. ever seen that before? he is unquestionably moving stocks...