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I note that no one is actually discussing the merits of the experimental results and arguments made by Mark Basile. What is *your* explanation for the nano-aluminum?

It was obvious from the context that we were talking about plain vanilla vertical spreads.

The risk/reward is very different. With a debit spread you can't lose more than your original net cost. With a credit spread your worst case loss can easily be ten times or more what you received for the sale of the spread. There's nothing inherently wrong with credit spreads, I sell the dang...

Time travel is easy. It's fast forward and reverse that are hard.

Godwin's Law is once again shown to be true -- in the very first post of this thread. I'm impressed. With Godwin, that is.

I believe they are investigating quote stuffing right now. Remember though that a lot of investors are wondering why the SEC doesn't protect them from traders like the ones right here at ET.

Well, you've just screwed the options market. Guess what the options market makers hedge with? Stocks. And they have to readjust their hedges every day.

+1 High frequency traders are now part of the landscape. Adapt your trading rules accordingly.

You have no problem with the government requiring more businesses to fill out stupid forms. I do. It costs money to fill out all the stupid forms.

This will affect any business that sells stuff worth at least $600, not just gold dealers. And no, gold dealers are not tax exempt as it is.

This is simply a response to the sleazy tactics of Goldline International, which advertises heavily on television and radio and tries to push people into buying vastly overpriced coins. Intelligent people use dealers who post both their buy and sell prices and make sure that for small...

As recently as 2007 that $500 billion would have financed the entire annual deficit. What I don't understand is why anyone wants to buy a bond that the Fed can buy for free.

Pelosi's opponent in the current House race is John Dennis, an anti-war, pro-Constitution Ron Paul Republican. He's the only kind of Republican who has a chance in Pelosi's San Francisco district. But even so, in a city where the political spectrum spans from Democrat to Marxist, Dennis is...

Yup, they'll just give us the "core" inflation, which doesn't include food or energy. Core inflation is very useful for those of us who don't need to eat or use energy. But my favorite idiocy about inflation calculations is that they leave out the biggest expense of all -- taxes. I spend more...

<i>Market makers, not so much in stocks as in options, must maintain tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of quotes at the exchanges, and when some input makes them move those quotes they must move them in a matter of milliseconds. On the opposite side, we have High Frequency Traders who...

Well, at least your broker loves you.

The traditional gold slayer is high *real* interest rates. But right now the Fed is still worried about keeping interest rates low. Also, I have much doubt that the Fed will be able to raise interest rates very much when it decides that the time has come to do so. The reason is that higher...

McCain lost because he is a Bush clone who picked a running mate even stupider than himself. Although Paul is about as old as McCain he is not suffering from encroaching senility the way McCain is.

The Republicans sure know how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Ron Paul could wipe the floor with Obama so who do the Republicans rally behind? Idiot Sarah Palin.

I've owned the shares for some time. It's nice to see they're coming back. The astonishing thing is that I *haven't* sold 7.50 covered calls on the shares. Usually my stocks don't go anywhere until I sell near the money covered calls on them, and then they shoot to the moon.