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Oh yes, what a wonderful idea. And how exactly is someone working at, say, McDonalds, supposed to put a roof over their head if minimum wage were to be cut in half? Heck, I don't know how many individuals survive even with the current level of minimum wages where I live (I believe it's...

I don't have any real world experience with using swaps, but from a textbook perspective I don't think that you have explained this correctly. Currency swaps exist for the purpose of assuring certainty of future cashflows, interest rate swaps exist due to inequities in obtaining financing...

I agree with this somewhat. I don't think that the complexity alone is justification for a product not to exist, but I really wonder how much interest retail-traded swaps would garner. Also, when you say that corporations use swaps to arb the cash market and lower their cost of capital, isn't...

I'm "taken" but not yet married, and I've been slowly teaching bits and pieces of how the markets work to my girlfriend. I think that she will be the type of person that is generally interested in knowing what I'm doing (and will support me in pursuing this), but won't really need/want to know...

If you are a Canadian and looking to trade US equities, you basically have three options: - Canadian dollar denominated account, with exchange into US dollars taking place each time you trade - US dollar denominated account - IB's Universal Account (I don't use IB, so I can't really...

Hmmmmm, interesting stock, but I'm not sure that I would want to touch it. The very low P/E ratio caught my eye, so I started going back through news items for the company, and "accounting restatement" jumped out at me... Regarding the May 2006 $5 call options, I'm showing open interest of 89...

Isn't that what this particular forum is for, discussion?

Assuming that you are referring to commodity stocks (oil, steel, etc.), I was actually just about to post something similar myself. Not going to post any charts, but here are a few names that caught my eye re: bearish potential: Imperial Oil Ipsco Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Russel...

Mine doesn't really understand trading, though I'm slowly educating her about various business, econ and finance stuff (I mean that in a nice way). I think that in order for me to trade full-time we would need to have a bit of a cushion, and I would probably need to show her that I'm capable of...

I've tended to accumulate a watchlist over time, I just go through the daily charts on a regular basis looking for interesting set-ups, and set alerts for myself.

My perspective on that is that you might want to consider pursuing trading full-time, but that you should probably also try to build up something first to fall back on (let's call it hedging your bets). I'm at the stage where I now have a full-time job and will be able to trade a bit early in...

I'm very interested to see where this is going to end, and how. I don't trade futures (yet), and I haven't been trading long enough to be familiar with commodity cycles (i.e. practical experience rather than just reading about history), but this is just getting nutty in my opinion. Joe Blow +...

I agree with DonnaV on this one, regardless of whether you are trading options or the underlying. I just think that there are some stocks best avoided until you have a great deal of experience, and GOOG is definately one of them. Of course, another reason that I avoid GOOG is that I don't...

I agree with you on that one in terms of personal preference, I have a pretty large desk. I wanted something that I could have a computer + keyboard + mouse on but still have lots of room to layout my books for studying. It'll be even better once I can ditch the space hogging CRT and buy a...

I would suggest checking out the Viewsonic VX2025wm, it's a 20" widescreen panel, and I was extremely impressed with it when I saw it a couple of weeks ago. I've seen it selling for as low as about $500 CND, and I could see that dropping even further this summer (apparently there is an...

In retrospect, I suppose that I left a lot of hypothetical money on the table, but I don't really have any regrets in doing so with a stock this volatile.

I'm going to continue to keep an eye on Intel as well, but I want to see some signs of an uptrend before I open a position. I have a very strong feeling that it is going to move below $19.00 next week. The two key datapoints that I'm looking forward to are detailed previews/reviews of the...

Tomorrow should be interesting, I wouldn't be at all suprised to see it drop further, judging by the action in GLD today.

I doubt that many people would want to go long "presidential assassination" futures, for obvious reasons. I suppose it depends on your definition of threat, but I can't see this type of exchange ever seeing the light of day.