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kiddos get a life... out of trading, really!

monopoly, really? there are plenty of social networks out there, and some of them are way more successful than FB, i.e. Linkedin.

just let us know in which buffett valaution model, FB comes up as a buy?

i heard that after the flood , there is going to be a barter economy in the noah's ark. GS will be front running all the deals as usual.

thank god will be banned, i having a terrible week here :D

merkel puts berlin in the middle of russia, which signals the annexation of those territories soon. i call for the federalization of the euro zone and euro-bonds still this year. uk and eastern europe throw in the towel and join the euro bandwagon by Y14. greece, spain, portugal and...

a word of advice. any single strategy that is based on a options roll and doesn't have any kind of mechanical, analytical, etc rationale behind it, i.e. sell OTM puts only when volatility has increased by more than 50%, will abide to the law of large numbers. hence, will be a losing strategy...

approximately 5% of the population hate Facebook and other related social interaction tools available online. coincidently, 5% pf the population suffer from social behavior disorders too. draw your own conclusions.

correct. the reversal of a losing system is becoming a broker and charging fees per transaction to traders. i am not saying there isn't profitable trading but rather saying that other than the above example, the reverse of losing trading system is also a losing system.

epic fail.

sarkozy is your man, not sure if he's gonna PM you though. heard he was caught off guard during the weekend.

Question: Let's say, for the purpose of exercise, we have one strategy that offers a profit factor of 1.50; And another strategy that has a profit factor of 1.00 (BE). However these two strategies are almost inversely correlated to each other. If the above strategies are run together at...

never heard of that concept "ET career" but i am pretty sure it must be huge.

brilliant. any successful trader out there is very conscious about this simple yet essential piece of information.

i understand the irony but the fact is volatility is highly autoregressive and that makes it more prone to be estimated than say, direction. if that wasn't the case, liquid options trading wouldn't exist a all. so my question is what tools, methods should i use to estimate daily vola?

What (method, tools, approach) do you guys recommend to estimate future volatility on the main indexes on a daily basis? E.g. I want to be able to compute an estimation of tomorrow's index volatility based on historical data. The IV figure doesn't help much because it refers to either monthly or...

probably way wiser than holding long into earnings, given the recent action.

really? why not? does it look like it is going to rise another 100% after the earnings announcement?

i live in one of the other countries in the EUzone (one of the PIGS) and the sentiment here is entirely different from what is brewing in greece. vast majority of people want to keep the EUR and is willing to make sacrifices in order to keep it, while in greece the population has been very...

it appears, the vast majority of greek people don't want to be in the EUR anymore. keep in mind the EUR lead them to nearly 40% unemployment rate. it is evident that a currency as the EUR is not tailored to an economy as theirs. it looks like everybody knows this already but none wants to...