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1) You're wearing "rose-colored" glasses and overly swayed by small sample bias. :eek: 2) If you looked at the results of other extremely long-term investors who bought stock in other companies in 1980 and held on until today, the dispersion of results would be enormous. You're too obsessed...

?..... Round the price up and down to an "easy number" to divide. For example, instead of $23.27, round the price to $20 and $25 and then do the division. :cool:

Are you going to be an "investigative journalist" and determine all of the flaws, real or imaginary, about that program and criticize it when anyone else mentions it? :confused: :eek:

1) ? ..... ! ...... who's "digging up" old threads? :confused: 2) Contact your clearing firm about re-tendering / re-delivery. :cool: 3) Contracts are not suddenly delisted. There's months and months of notice beforehand. :) 4) The simple way to avoid delivery scenarios is to be out before...

0-2? :confused: :eek: :D

1) Are you talkin' to me? :cool: 2) If the gains from the 6 times gold went up GREATLY exceed the losses of the 2 times it went down, then it was good....in the past. :eek: 3) September, this year, by itself, could be a "stinker". Are you able to wait 12 months for the trade to come about...

When corporate insiders get too bullish, you know the rest of the story. :eek: :D

1) 1-0-1-4-3-0-0-0? :confused: 2) ?..... You're 1 of the 3 guys who selected "Escorts & hookers"! :eek: :p :D

1) Statistics can be "deceiving". :( 2) You have to be cognizant of the entire data sample, not just the average. :eek: 3) The intra-month volatility can shake you out of "good" positions. :mad: 4) According to the bar-data; November, December AND January, combined, might be the real "high"...

Yes, this is the Politics and Religion Forum but just tell us what today's settlement will be for the Footsee or S&P. Your silly political leanings are annoying. :mad:

1) Besides the "full size" futures contract, i.e. "ZB", there might still be a half-size contract, i.e. "XB". It's liquidity is probably horrible. :( 2) You may be better off with an ETF to trade instead if you are uncomfortable with the futures. :cool:

1) Erm ...... you're thinking of what's known as the clearing corporation at the exchange. :p 2) If you and I make a futures trade together, the "clearing corp" becomes the counterparty to each side of the trade after it "clears". You don't have to exit the trade with the same entity who you...

1) Gumption :confused: 2) Moxie :confused: 3) Retained expenses :confused: 4) Resource maximization :confused: 5) Executive bonus pool enhancement :confused:

That app/website already exists for adolescents to meet other adolescents...... it's called "the personals ads in Craigslist". :cool: :p :D :) :eek:

1) You could be afflicted with perfectionism. You're more concerned about being "right" instead of being profitable. To be profitable, you will make AND lose money to be consistently profitable, not perfectly profitable. :( 2) You could be afflicted with hindsight bias. On a conscious level...

1-12? :confused: :eek:

1) She got her MRS degree from UVA and married a rich guy. :p 2) She was never a finance, trader nor investment professional in any real sense. That's obviously apparent from her hedge fund departure within one year. :mad: 3) Her cosmetics "business" is a hobby. She wants to squander other...

1) (-9.35) - (-2.70) = -6.65 :cool: 2) (100-90) - 6.65 = +3.35 :) 3) Those diagrams are only valid at expiration of the options. They can fluctuate wildly in the interim. :eek:

1) I wanna know if Crispy and Pekelo are gonna "meet out by the playground" later today. :cool: 2) I'm "long" a bunch of contracts of Crispy. :eek: :D

1) At-the-money options have the greatest extrinsic value compared to in-the-money options and out-of-the money options. :) 2) In order to "justify/sustain" that, the time decay sensitivity is also highest for the at-the-monies. :eek: 3) You have a tradeoff between the "shorts" wanting a...