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I'm sure everyone has heard of FAS 157, a rule that has allowed the banks to artificially boost their earnings and hide their losses legally. What do you think will happen when this is rescinded? What do you think it will occur and what do you think the effect will be on the share prices?

The BP oil spill has already eclipsed the valdez spill and could easily become the world's largest oil spill;' BP losses will be collossal. From the loss of immediate profit from the drill; to the billions that will be spent on the clean up, to billions in government fines, to years of lawsuits...

Marketwatch says SELL SELL SELL lol, depressing news. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/crash-is-dead-ahead-sell-get-liquid-now-2010-05-25 I think they're overreacting, but what do I know I just started.

I bought short-term puts on citigroup; they have a myriad of factors against them. 1. Treasury ownership; the treasury will continue to sell shares throughout the year thus deflating the price. 2. Pending lawsuits by indviduals, states and national governments; many are preparing lawsuits...

I have been considering purchasing Total S.A. Leaps, seems undervalued at the moment. What are you thoughts?

The market overreacted the other day due to an "error" and the greek crisis; so how are you going to respond? Are you going to take advantage of the lower prices and buy calls or do you think the market will continue to fall and buy puts instead? Do you think the decline is temporary due to...

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Citigroup's market cap is 140 billion dollars, near it's 2007 high. Unlike other banks, citigroup issued billions of additional shares and their current outstanding shares are at 28 billion! It would be illogical to think at the current amount of citi would increase to it's pre-crash...

I am basing this theory off the small number of stocks that I've reviewed but it seems like that stocks seem to dip around lunch time usually to their day-time low. Am I crazy?

What about purchasing LEAPS options of ETFs that follow major indexs in foreign countries? Like EWH for hong kong or FXI for China or any other foreign etf?

It's impossible to predict the outcome; Obama has shown an amazing political finesse in passing the health-care bill, a feat amazing by itself and more so given that he in 50 some odd years he is the only president that has successfully accomplished this when all others have failed. This in...

I don't think its contestable that GS will fall in the short-term, so I paper shorted 600 shares lol.

Let's say I'm confident the stock market has recovered and will continue to rise for the next year then it would it be wise to purchase LEAPS options on a S&P 500 index fund like -SPY-? To me it seems like a conservative low risk investment with a decent upside.

What do you guys think about purchasing Real Estate Investment Trusts? Anyone purchase these? Pros/cons/ Profit potential? And given that the real estate market is undervalued now is a better time to buy? Thanks as always

It's not a bogus chart but not an entirely fair representation as regardless of who is president the change from a huge decline to tapering decrease to marginal increase in jobs would be similar as the economy pulled out of a recession. It's interesting that people are so quick to attribute the...

I think the best source of knowledge to learn about economics would be an university, so here is a list of universities that post all the information given in their courses for free. Including MIT http://education-portal.com/articles/Universities_with_the_Best_Free_Online_Courses.html

I'm not an economics expert so this is just my opinion. But the GDP is now growing it is no long receding. Since last quarter unemployment losses have steadily dropped and just this month over 100,000 non-census jobs were created; the employed will increase each month. I also read a study...

Thanks for all the tips; I do plan to wait quite some time before I actually trade options; and additional advice would be appreciated as well. One last question I read about purchasing stocks specifically for the purposes of writing calls(according to your own advice not those...

I recently learned about options and it's a very broad field or so it seems. The wise thing seems to be to learn a basic foundation of investments and investment principals/fundamentals and I've checked out several books. The intelligent investor, security analysis, Common Stocks and Uncommon...

Believe me not a single lawsuit will be productive; it a waste of time and money. It's not going to happen. I think the main point between the western European mixed socialist and ours is not that one economic system leads to failure or dismal results but that one must be superior to the...