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Thank you for your input and taking the time to read the thread.

Yes Sir or Maam, 100 basis points. Sorry for short hand.

A safe assumption would be 50-100bps a month min to stay on board. This would not be considering size of your book and volatility, VaR ..etc The track record would need to precede current bull market trends unless it had minimal correlation to a long only portfolio. Then I would be open to...

Let’s say I could offer this to you - A position on a proprietary trading desk in NYC. True Prop, not retail type plop your contribution down, get levered up. But I provide all capital, you get a very competitive base salary(75k-100k) to pay the bills and 20% of net production end of year...

All I have to say is this - Silver is for speculation and gold is for hoarding. Its just too damn bulky. Who in there right mind would own a hundred thousand ounces of the stuff to protect their net worth from debasement, when you could hold 2300 gold bullion coins instead at current prices...

Your opinion Sir or Maam. And I hope since you were aware of the impending move you profited accordingly.

I voted "other". Most events in a sustained trend that should counter the move from a "common sense" point of view will get brushed off. And said trend will most likely continue. Other - Act of God/natural disaster. Or something completely off most everybodies radar. The unexpected...

Can anybody give me some insight as to how firms control risk across multiple asset classes? Do they typically hire a quant/risk specialist to build out software and monitor? Or are there canned products that can be bought and or customized to meet a firms criteria? Thanks in advance.

Perhaps this is the commodity pressure last few days?

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Generalizations in love or speculation is a losing bet every time.

I didnt want to mention this because of total thread derail....but since you started it. Opium production has risen exponetially since the taliban(they are clearly anti-drug) has been crippled. And all that shit has come right over here. So not only will Afghanistan break us financially...but...

Are you asking me a rhetorical question? Because the truth is I dont know. Its pointless.

Yup, scaling back militarily is key. Historians dont call Afghanistan the "Empire crumbler" for nothing. It boggles the mind that the nobody wants to touch that issue for fear of being labeled un-patriotic. The USA was hugely productive during our neutral years. All that money could rebuild...

lololol...

I dont know who it is. But there are 10`s of thousands succesfull small business owners and CEO`s in this great country. Someone who can do basic math, runs a profitable company and makes hard decisions would be a good starting point though.

Regarding bi-partisan politics - "we need to have an adult conversation about budget cuts"...are you talking to your fucking kids or 330 million people who you work for? Regarding job growth in the budget - "theres stuff in there for growth"...stuff...theres stuff in there...well now I feel...

Seriously? He wants to cut 400 billion out of the deficit over the next 10 years? 400 measly billion! 1.2bn billion a day is the interest alone on the national debt. Does he know how to do basic math or is he really smoking drugs?

I agree about the "vote just because" crowd factor. What I am saying is I do not think she gets the nomination at all. If the GOP knows whats good for them (questionable, I know) they will call in black shinook helicopter to carry her away into the night until the day after.

Why is Palin even relevent? Not a chance in hell she gets the nod.