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  1. BMK

    Gladstone Capital offers new 5-year notes

    at an interest rate of 7.75% https://www.gladstonecapital.com/newsroom/detail/347/gladstone-capital-corporation-prices-public-offering-of
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    Private University Bonds

    Yeah, but liquidity is not that important if you are planning to hold the bonds until maturity o_O
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    Private University Bonds

    Like this one from Case Western Reserve University Matures on June 1, 2122 That's not a typo Not much volume right now...
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    Softwar by Lowery no longer for available

    Okay, I have only read the abstract. But this thing is a master's thesis that was accepted by faculty in engineering and management at MIT. The guy might actually have something interesting to say. If you just read the abstract, the paper is not really about Bitcoin or even about...
  5. BMK

    Has anyone read this recently-published book?

    I'm not running an ad blocker. The original post has blank white space, and one sentence that does not identify the book. Nothing more. I've attached a screenshot. Note that the ad from TradeZero is clearly visible. The OP did in fact identify the book and its authors in a followup post.
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    SPY and $XSP

    Doesn't work that way in our Schwab account LOL Maybe it works if you have portfolio margin
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    Has anyone read this recently-published book?

    Is there supposed to be an image or something? If so, it has disappeared. The post does not contain the title of the book or an image... unless there is something wrong with my browser...
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    SPY and $XSP

    Has anyone ever held a long stock position in SPY and hedged it with $XSP options, e.g., a short call, or a long put, or both? I get the fact that it is not a perfect hedge, because $XSP options are cash-settled. And $XSP is a mathematical construct that is exactly one tenth of $SPX, except for...
  9. BMK

    Treasury Direct updating

    The issuer's credit rating was downgraded earlier this week... Did you check to see if it's in default? :confused: You shoulda bought Bitcoin or Solana. Much safer.
  10. BMK

    Harrow Health Baby Bonds

    Notes issued by HROW back in December have a YTM of over 11% I have attached an article from SA
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    Softwar by Lowery no longer for available

    "Dealt with?" By whom? Twitter isn't dealing with anything anymore. They fired everyone responsible from removing content that violates their TOS.
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    Trading one large account versus several smaller ones.

    Now, see, just last week I had a conversation with someone in my office, and I argrued that when it comes to buy-and-hold stocks and dividends, that it does not matter whether a stock or ETF pays a dividend quarterly or monthly... I don't care whether we get a check for $10 each month or a...
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    What is and is not a security?

    This is Matt Levine's column at Bloomberg from July 20. As always, his column covers multiple topics, and he starts out talking about a professional con artist and his ponzi scheme. Later in the article he talks about a case currently pending in federal court in which the court will need to...
  14. BMK

    Stock volume no longer being showed in multiples of 100

    Kinda like trying to read a Fortune 500 financial statement... And you have to remember that all those numbers are thousands, i.e., they routinely leave off the last three zeros.
  15. BMK

    CUSIPs missing from FINRA data site

    Those are all recenty issued. Probably too new. The FINRA database hasn't been updated yet. What do you hope to find on the FINRA site that you can't get somewhere else?
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    pros and cons of investing

    Ummm... if you are referring to US Treasury securities... then most people agree that the risk of default is effectively zero. The whole affair associated with the debt ceiling was a political charade. If you are referring to some other government, like, say, Ghana, or El Salvador, then you've...
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    BREAKING : XRP wins case against the SEC as it is ruled 'Not a security'

    To the extent that anyone can agree on a formal, legal definition of currency... the definition almost always includes something about it being issued and/or backed by a sovereign nation. And the whole point of BTC, and most other crypto assets, is that they are neither. Yes, apparently there...
  18. BMK

    Put Question

    When you do a covered call and a protective put, that is commonly referred to as a collar. I was going to point you to the optionsplaybook website for information about how collars work, but it looks like either the site is down, or Ally Financial has taken it offline. The optionsplaybook was...
  19. BMK

    Is this as safe as T-bills ? 10 year over 6-percet yield!

    Federal agency bonds are almost as safe as T-Bills. As a practical matter, the difference in risk is considered negligible. The US government is not going to let this kind of agency default. The "dubious" ratings that you are referring to from The Big Short were inflated ratings on CDOs--not...
  20. BMK

    BREAKING : XRP wins case against the SEC as it is ruled 'Not a security'

    The court case that we are talking about in this thread centered on whether XRP is a security, and the case was brought by the SEC. The judge did not express an opinion as to whether it is commodity. The CFTC was not involved in the case. And the judge ruled that XRP was indeed a security when...
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