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Expand your time frame(daily) AND concentrate on fewer and lesser-volatile markets(10-year note). It's better for rookies to take things slowly instead of getting wrapped up too much in intra-day volatility.

Soybean Spreads? If you're bullish, you should tend to buy the "old crop" Summer months and short-sell the "new crop" Fall and Winter months. Vice versa if you're bearish. You can trade them on a one-to-one contract basis.

Isn't it obvious?..................Chapter-1: They all let small losses grow into be huge losses. The End.

Yes, if it's the result of aggressive borrowing for expanding productive capacity. If your "business" has big margins, you can continue borrowing and still be very profitable.

You'll have to sign up for several weeks of "special consulting" to get the correct answer to your question!

seykota.com!!!!!

Basic stuff? Contact the Options Institute. I believe their website is 1888options.com. That might be their phone number also. Start there.

Really? I was wondering if you did any wood or tile flooring work as a part of your job description.

(1) Regarding margin calls-----------DON'T PAY THEM! It means you've let a small loss grow into being a big loss. Generally, you'll be telephoned and have 24 hours to meet the margin call. If you don't pay it, the "worst" open positions in your account will be offset to stop the bleeding in your...

Are knee pads part of your "dress code"?

Congratulations on graduating from Rutgers and the Golden Sack job. Hold onto it for dear life. Option-2 should be relegated to the scrap heap because of technological advances in the near future. Options 1 & 3 should be considered if you're downsized out of GS, not while you're there. Consider...

Oh my God!....................You're interviewing yourself!!!

It's good as long as people have confidence in the dollar. If that confidence diminishes, then everything will be thrown into a depression. Everybody has to "play nice".

If a hedge fund is really a "hedge fund", it should have had a good month of May, at worst a break-even month. I believe there are too many former "mutual fund" guys with a long-only attitude about the market. Mix in leverage and a sharp downturn and we should be hearing about some debacles that...

On the futures side, if you embraced "new" technology and methods, it was a great transition. If you are/were a one-trick-pony-floor-trader, it was a "slow death" trying to live off of a shrinking pie instead of developing a taste for the brand new expanding one that was available to everyone.

A top? Sure!......but not if the Fed begins a program of intervening in the overall real estate market.

Several hundred? For what it's worth, the consistently most-active stocks will have the consistently most active options with the tightest bid-ask spreads. Narrow your list down from there.

Bedroom antics?........Trading? There are "spreading" techniques applicable to each realm. Go to tradingtribe.com OR seykota.com for more info. Ed has a goofy website with a lot of weird stuff. Check it out if you dare.

Did you get those odds-numbers from tradesports.com or hedgestreet.com? If you believe there's "free money" to be made by spreading those "odds" versus the Fed Funds futures & options, you should put on as large of a position as possible. Let us know how that goes.

Rule of thumb? If you believe that the long-term average rate of return for stocks is ~8% and if you're a fundamentally-minded institutional investor, you'd buy bonds with both hands when investment-grade yields get to those levels. You'd raise cash by selling off stocks.