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Anyone have experience submitting research/articles to these web sites? Have feedback to share on it? If someone was generating ER, would it be worthwhile to submit to these sites?

He might be attempting to hold two positions at the same time, see which direction the market moves, then dump the loosing position and retain the winning position. Its a reasonable way to hedge if you can dump the loosing position in time to still make gains on the winning position (i.e., you...

One small caveat here: Although dividends are often quotes as a % (i.e., 2.5% on SPY). It is actually a dollar amount per share. Right now it's about 4$ per share per year (rough number for sake of math). Unless there is a corresponding dividend cut, even if the SPY should drop by 50% the...

You could consider a combination of dividend and draw down. A real simple approach and suggestion could be holding the SPY ETF (which tracks S&P 500). It will give a dividend of about 2.5%, and you draw down 5.5% per annum. It is 'about' the average growth rate of the S&P 500, so you may...

I'm looking for tools that will do one or more of the following: Graph historical 10-k data (i.e., revenue over time) Graph multiple 10-k data from multiple companies (i.e., revenue of XYZ and ABC over time) Compute/Graph formulas (i.e.: Admin Costs / Revenue over the last 10 years). I'm...

Depending on your goal, but let's go with the idea of a basic stock portfolio: Portfolio theory generally suggests 20 is a good diversified number of holdings to have. You wish to trade stocks between 10$-30$, giving an average price of 20$. For efficiency, its best to trade in lots of 100...

Interesting discussion on fees/commissions and how the various MMs make their income. Anyone suggest any good textbooks with valid real world examples on the subject that covers the full gambit of exchanges and various players?

The starting salary is good, but the emphasis is on *starting* (and *salary*). If an engineer is good, in 3-5 years they can move into another position with a significantly higher salary. They also can start to get perks (such as Options, 401k Matching, which can add up over time). Tech...

I think, as time goes by, you may be in a situation where no one platform suits all your needs or styles, and may need to use multiple platforms/tools to achieve your ends. For example, IB is great (for me) for trade execution, but is not at all useful for Equity Research. SO I use different...

Rtorkin: Start off with what do you want/need to know? If you are just interested in very simple profit YTD, then you can generate a brief (non-detailed) report in IB. It only takes a minute and actually is very slick and shows you quite nicely what you made. After you want more details you...

Writing a covered call on a position you already hold is not adding additional risk. The only source of risk is the position itself. Writing a naked put is risky, but your risk is capped. Writing a naked call is very risk, as your risk is not capped. When it comes to options, it generally...

The best analyst, in my opinion, are the CEOs/CFOs guidance that they issue for their company during quarterly briefings. Look at their track record for guidance in the past. If they are consistent, then they are your best bet for the future.

Tom is right: While looking at the strategy in strategy builder you can manipulate each leg as you wish. Once saved, it is stored as a single order and can no longer have the individual legs adjusted; only the overall price. That was something I was sad to see (would have been nice to set up...

There's leverage... and there's leverage. If you are leveraged that you loose a significant or all of your portfolio from a 1% market move, you are over-leveraged. If you are leveraged that you can easily absorb a 75% drop in the market, then you are fine.

For a return of 6.5%, you should be able to achieve that without too much risk with using just bull put credit spreads. And pretty safely with SPY ETF. Could simply SELL a 201 SPY PUT and BUY a 200 SPY PUT. The amount you earn will depend on how volatile the market is (so it might be more if...

Perhaps I'm not trading corporates sufficiently to already know this? :( Getting bond prices for existing bonds is easy enough. I can pull up a list of bonds for IBM and look at their coupons/yields/etc. That's not a problem. The problem is if I want the 10-year (or 5-year) spot rate. So I...

Tax is charged both federal and state in California. And 160k hits a 28% tax rate at the state level. Combined it's about 35% in taxes (about 56k, let's call it 60k). Rent + Utilities + Transport can easily put you at 4000/mo (48k, let's call it 50k). 160k - 60k - 50k = 50k Now if he is...

Maybe I'm missing something but if you build up your combo in Strategy Builder you can then adjust the strike/expiration date of each leg at will without having to rebuild the combo.

Sounds great. Now I just need a 95% off coupon for Bloomberg Terminal and I'm in there :) I don't recall Eikon (or MetaStock Xenith) doing it, anyone can recall?

Anyone know any service that will number crunch the spot rate for corporate bonds (for a specific company). I.e., if I want to know today's yield for IBM's 10 year bond, I just punch in 'IBM' '10 Year' and it number crunches 3.25% (or whatever it is). Thank you.