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Would the two of you please get a motel room!

The answer is "all four". Linear economic logic can be used to describe bullish or bearish scenarios. (1) When treasuries increase in price, it's bullish for stocks primarily because borrowing costs are expected to decline. That cost savings can translate into increased earnings later on. (2)...

Sell it out when it gets back to $27/share. We'll see how long that takes.

Atleast 6-figures? Just make sure that your position size is a small percentage of that figure so that you don't "disturb" the market trying to get into or out of something.

The "golden boobie" has all the answers!

Your slippage will be smaller in the nearby months. If you're focused on capturing premium and not capital gains, you should be selling the at-the-money strike too. Do what you feel comfortable doing.

Initiate spread-trades as spreads. If you're capable of legging into spreads advantageously, you're saying that you can predict/forecast the outright movement. If that's the case, you should be trading the outrights instead and making a lot more money because of faster turnover.

The trading day, in my opinion, starts with the 8:30am opening, for bar-charting purposes. That opening is more important than the after-hours stuff from the night before. You decide what's important for you.

Generally, The settlement price should be the midpoint of the final closing range. On the last trading day of the month, weird stuff can happen, usually to the upside. Keep an eye on this Friday to see what I mean.

(1) Read Prechter's book instead of Neely. (2) Look around elliottwave.com for whatever tutorial tidbits you can pick up. Sign-up for the daily freebie. (3) Prechter does emphasize risk control over blindly following the "theory". (4) When a market "conforms" to the theory, it's the greatest...

Your pessimistically-biased forecasts are boring. We'll export our "Paper Asset Mania" to your country. Please export more of your beautiful Brazilian women up North.

(1) You should be able to buy a BOTTLE of Santa Margherita PG for ~$18 at a warehouse club. (2) Another expenditure that should be included is item (10), taxes. If the CPI included that, it would be much higher.

Consumer sentiment operates in a lagging manner. The stock market leads it higher and lower. Sentiment takes to time to reverse after the market has made major turns.

NoiseTrader-----It's different this time.

Your buddies are wrong. Higher-volume markets are easier to trade because the high-volume of trade sets in motion trends that are more persistent. Low volume commoditites, such as pork bellies or platinum, should be avoided because they can be "pushed around" more easily.

Donna, stop being such a cynic!

Wallace = Charles Faulkner

(1) A part of you doesn't believe you have a "solid strategy". (2) Obviously, you're not disciplined if you're not taking the trades when you're supposed to, according to your own guidelines. (3) It seems apparent that you're gripped by perfectionism and are terrified of losing money and being...

Major "foreign" real estate markets are declining. If you feel lucky, you could investigate things on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean. Hopefully, there won't be another volcanic eruption during your lifetime. If Castro dies soon, Cuba could open up big-time. Southern Louisiana might...

Cabron, hay que aprender mas Ingles!