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I subscribe to the electronic edition of WSJ/Barron's ($79/year, a must read), and Bloomberg TV ($1.50/mo, a higher signal-to-noise ratio than CNBC that I got in a package deal). What financial publications/web sites/chat rooms/advisory services are you willing to pay for, and why?

Don't confuse religious fanaticism with bravery. All it took was a belief that they were going to Paradise where each of them would be granted 72 beautiful virgins and, presumably, a new pair of balls.

Does the above mean that the long OTM put's time to expiration is geater than short ATM/ITM call's one? Thanks, dis

Without timestamps, JS "training logs" are not very useful .

Are you referring to the "long stock, long put, short call" collar?

You are right. The correct term here is "strangle" not "straddle".

Hello, Can someone recommend an options strategy netting ~5% per annum with minimum amount of risk? What do you think of selling near-term, out-of-the-money straddles on broad-based indices such as OEX? Thanks, dis

Yes, but so what? How do you plan to translate this observation into trading profits?

Gee.. and I thought MA crosses were deterministic in nature:D

Use marketable limit orders instead.

Ditto, although I would make an exception for major indices.

This is a fairly common tactics in systems trading.

It depends on whether the trades were correlated.

... when top-quality 21" CRT monitors sell for $150-200 apiece at computer shows, a 19" Sun Trinitron - for $75-80, a 17" Dell Trinitron - for $40?

Win2k is good enough, XP is better.

Chart Guys Say a Retest Is Imminent for Stocks By ERIN SCHULTE THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE It's August. It's -- what? -- 95 degrees? There's already a lot of hot air blowing around out there. So this week, rather than wallow in complex macroeconomic explanations for the stock...

We may get a retest of the Dec.2001 - Jan.2002 highs (SP500 @ ~1500). However, all we know for a fact is that SP500 and NASDAQ100 have run into resistance at their declining 50-day MA's, and that the volume have been fairly light over the past few days. Where do we go from here is a open...

89 being a magic number is BS. A five-point wave looks like a variation of the A&E and 2B patterns. Wave 4 on Figure 5 appears to be misplaced. However, a "squat bar" (congestion) pattern sounds interesting, and may be worth investigating.

Stocks are bid up on bad news. ADSK warns, gets downgraded, rises 9.5%. INTC estimates are cut, the stock goes up. Dogs and cats (i.e. wireless) are having a field day. Is the bear market over? Perhaps not...

My backtesting supports this theory. Although fading an opening gap is a high percentage play, overall performance is usually hurt by a small number of big losses. A fixed volatitility-based stop improves performance, as long as it is not too tight.