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Are the futures at all a good indicator for what the next trading day will bring? Also, I see the Dow futures are down like 180 points: http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/futures.html Is that a misprint? Or an indication of a really bad day on Friday?

Yeah but criminal courts are different from civil courts. Wiping away the principal will not stand on appeal, I'm sorry to say. It strikes me wrong on a number of legal basis's...

Such a stock sounds like a no brainer, even to the non-value investor, no?

Thanks! I might give it a trial or something to see what they're all about

Can you expand on that idea? You caught my attention!

Interesting, thanks to you and also to dcraig. Since you seem knowledgeable on the topic, I'll ask you whether you know if Robert Schiller took such biases into account for this data plot...

That's a good point. Would you say that a value investor is basically a trader who looks to fundamental analysis to find an edge?

Can you expand on the survivorship + lookahead biases?

Thanks to both of you. I can't wrap my mind around value investing - If it were as easy as checking the P/E or PEG ratios etc, then an unmanned computer would be all you need. In other words, it seems the market would be efficient enough to eliminate an easy edge. So I guess one needs to learn...

I'm a n00b, but I think the call is adjusted for the dividend - meaning the premium you collect is lower to begin with. Otherwise this would be a free meal, which I somehow don't think exists.

I realize most of you are probably short term traders, but I you probably still have an opinion on this - Do you think that the market is less efficient when it comes to long term value picks? So example, a company may be undervalued and rise like, 100% in 5 years. But because of the 5 year...

I have a question about your strategy of selling Deep OTM options to collect the time decay: I read somewhere that it's like "collecting pennies in front of a steamroller." (Might have been Buffett?) How do you assess the risk that the deep OTM option will remain OTM, and secondly, if the...

Here's a question though - does the implied volatility essentially cancel out any move I am anticipating? What I mean is this - assume I am anticipating a 10% move upwards, does the IV account for that 10% move already, thereby canceling out any "edge" that I may believe I have? The IV aspect...

Hi all, I am curious what you folks think about using options to get leverage on directional bets? Specifically, are the odds stacked completely against the retail investor? I've been buying 3-6 months out calls as swing trades, and it's been going pretty well. I mainly trade in upward...