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Your assumption is incorrect. Doing a quick scan of S&P 500 companies, whose beta is less than 0.5 revelas names like GENZ, ABT, XOM, WMT, GIS, ADM. This means that less than half of these stocks movement is explained by the S&P 500.

Any organized religion should be taxed as a corporation, after some standard exemption. That way the smaller churches would feel no impact, while the larger ones would pay taxes just like every other corporation.

Yeah its definately not designed for fast market environments. I use TOS for swing trading, so it doesnt really bother me.

I had a bunch of GTC buy orders for CEFs in my long-term accounts that were executed at VERY favorable prices. None of them were busted. This was thru Schwab.

Hey route it through the Philly and hedge it on the Cinci

Agreed - MEE much better 'fade the negative news play' than Goldman.

I agree. Expect GS to vindicate itself, and send the markets to new all-time highs.

Screw the Chinese, we need to just forget about them. Why don't we set up manufacturing facilities in Central & South America to compete directly with the Chinese? Then all of our export/import problems would be solved and the Chinese can take their pegged currency and shove it up their...

Try the Edison Stock Ticker Machine.. You'll probably get better results..

I gotta admit, it was an amazing performance. Glad to see BO grew a pair.

Hey it's your patriotic duty, right? :(

Pathetic trades to say the least. Next time, just give your money to charity. As the previous poster pointed out, never NEVER short something because "it has been going higher". As a result of your naive analysis, you have managed to be short the two strongest stocks on the strongest index...

yep just divide by two to get the price.. i.e 64.50/2=$32.25

My new year's resolution is to minimize trading errors. Trading errors caused me to have a good year, rather than a stellar year. If I can just simply minimize these errors, my plan should provide me a very phat 2010:)

People seem to be leaning really hard in one direction - bullish. Even Art Cashin is talking about bullish upsides. With the S&Ps at a key resistance point, I am thinking we get a fadeable break to the upside into early 2010. Again, people just seem too darn bullish right now...

i think the question is asking for a static bet amount that will keep you in the game for at least five flips, so you will have a chance to win. With this in mind, you need to remain solvent and still able to win the game if the first two flips go against you. With this in mind I come up with...

I hope you are also wrong, but in the event you are correct, I think wonderful trading opportuinities will abound. How about that for optimism?

There won't be a WWIII - quite honestly, there are no worthy opponents to fight with. Ever been to Russia?? Furtermore, the US has no incentive to invade another country, and no country will EVER invade the US.

Hmm.. I see some discrepancies in your story here. 1) You say you made $81k trading US-based options, yet the market is closed since it's Sunday. 2) You are trading in tremendous size, yet you have 22 posts and you appear to be new. 3) You are complaining about those rogue market makers...

Interesting... Were you born in US or are you Dutch by birth? Just curious, I am looking for a different tax structure to re-locate to, and Holland is top of the list. If you are American, do you have an open visa or something?