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CME has announced April 25 for the E Mini based rollout of the Tues/Thurs contracts. Mon/Weds symbols are "A" and "C". Tues will be "B" and Thursday will be "D".

I've been reading that some of the SPACs were engaging in it. It's all perfectly legal and disclosed in the proper filings. Providing funds for a PIPE is limited to accredited investors, it's not something your average retailer can do. You can use preferred, common, convertibles, warrants...

Crowd psychology is a huge part of these kinds of things. You've got lots of people with a higher basis that watched the stock go down to a buck and got worried about it going to zero. When it pops a little and they are now profitable, some folks want out. It's just humans being humans.

None of the voting options really fit my view, which could best be described as agnostic I guess. I don't love it or hate it. Personally there isn't a place for it in my life in any way, but I respect that some folks have made fortunes and find it to be incredibly worthwhile.

Years ago - not sure if this still happens - there was a process called "Private Investment for Public Equity" (PIPE). An investor could loan a company money in return for below market priced shares. As a hedge, the investor could then short a huge amount of shares, drive the price down and...

How about some numbers? When you say conservative, what kind of annual return are we talking about here?

We all thought Japan was going to be the next big thing in the late 80's. I have Dalio's book but haven't gotten into it yet.

I always think about stories like this when people here talk about raising money. These guys were ambulance chasing con men with no experience in any actual financial market. If you are a legit operation with a decent record, people will throw money at you until you make them stop.

I experimented with that for a while some years ago, but it didn't work out for me. I would either get a pretty good fill waiting for the other leg - sometimes even a free spread or a credit with an immediate locked in profit; or it would go horribly against me and I'd wind up doing the other...

There's always a case for both directions. Sure - there's a ton of worry and maybe a bit more than usual "world strife" going right now. The economy is pretty strong in the US with rising earnings. I've watched this for 35 years and I have no idea where we're going today, tomorrow or next...

Thanks for this. I could be totally wrong here, but I feel like IB kinda does this now - at least I think they say they do. My vision for how it works is that - when I enter a three/four legged order - that IB may market it as complex but then also works the individual legs separately. If the...

Just curious...why do you want to see this?

Days like yesterday were a bit much for me personally. The SP moved more than 75 points in each direction several times back and forth. Volatility is better for me, but the swings are getting pretty steep hour to hour. I think it is unique to everyone and their strategy...some of you guys are...

Battery storage is only improving about 6-8% per year. These breakthroughs you read about are in labs and don't easily translate to rechargables on the road. Nickel went through the roof in the last few days, which will make EVs even more expensive. Super high gas may push a few folks into...

True, but high oil prices also have a shutdown effect. If gas is $10, leisure travel will be curtailed and people will stay home a great deal more. Funds that were being spent on nights out will now go to groceries. Those supply issues will be less so if people aren't buying as many things.

That's what I mean. If we have $200 oil the Fed can't raise rates as easily. Part of raising rates is cooling the economy. $200 oil will have that effect.

The short risk is they replace Putin. Super risky...but if some of the red square ivory tower realizes that Russia takes decades to fully recover from all this...it could happen. Slim chances but I couldn't go to sleep tonight being short. That would be one of those "rip your face off"...

I also read a bit about the Crimea effort Putin made in 2014 and how there were sanctions applied against Russia back then. Several articles went into great detail about how he learned from that and made an effort in the last 8 years to avoid similar pain when he ventured out to take the next...

I was with you until the "bring in Trump quickly" part. We need to move past that if we hope to improve things in the US. Believe it or not, it is possible to have solid policies to resolve the destruction of the last year without all the pettiness and South Park behavior. Conservatives could...

It feels day by day...lots of moving parts here. The high price of oil will be gangbusters for the energy companies but tough on the consumer. The Euro could pass 1.30 in the coming months as the ECB raises. Russia is a complete wildcard, but the US economy is strong overall. I feel like every...