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what # is then mark haines i wonder?

this may become the most skewed distribution of outcomes ET ever encountered... :)

I remember FDAX from Wilmott times....:)

correlations are usually traded via options (straddles), e.g. buying S&P vol vs selling individual components vols. it is also called volatility dispersion trading (try to google this term instead). these are advance strategies for BIG accounts only - basically only banks and HFs...

+2 for ghost of cutten's post.

thanks nelsanity!

it depends. mathematics offers a separate reality where everything plays fair - something many people in USSR did not have in their real life. that's why many people studied it. also the fact that there was not much else to do played its role...

do you take piss near the open? :eek: :D

check your math - you are talking about number of people about equal to number of atoms in the whole universe... i think chinese burn would be appropriate...

whoever wrote this article simply wants your money. if you save more you give it to a pension fund who makes a cut from each additional dollar. the same goes for a broker, etc. wall street will always tell you that you do not safe/invest enough while main street will always tell you that you...

bob with all due respect you do not need to chime in on things that you have no clue about. please just reread your contribution to this thread and in particular look at how/if you helped the OP. that's a complete fantasy you are talking about here - to start with what kind of friends are you...

of course it is not as easy as that. for instance in germany you are taxed on a portion of a company profit if you are a beneficial holder. i think you even do not need to withdraw the money physically. so there you need other structures like trustees, nominees, etc. i guess that's also...

it really is following the simple basic rule "better safe than sorry"...

all i can say is that i feel sorry for you. some thoughts: i travel around the world with my family for years. same quality or better everywhere when you decide to pay for it. who gives a rats ass about travel expenses - they are lower than you would-be taxes anyway. medical coverage...

haha. so gibraltar is not sunny while spain is? just kidding - i know what you meant. gibraltar is a terrible place to live... thanks for your posts moarla. one thing to remember (for non-US people) is that as soon as you travel a lot, have a company set up in a smart way/place and live a...

+1

gs significantly underperformed in the past few weeks due to the volcker rule hallo. with the rule not making any progress gs is clawing back some of those losses. it is better to play gs via april option spreads (expiring just after earnings) or a pair trade against spiders (possibly xlf as...

there are good alternatives to MSFT - you just must not be lazy. Macs (AAPL) are more reliable but still they try to rip you off on both hardware and software. with Linux it is often hard to get all your programs to run. one possibility is to have a sizable external disk (few TBs) and...

this is not going to impact liquidity in any significant way. banks will switch reserves which sits idle and earn 25bps for these 1 year bills which will earn about 40bps. in 1 year time it will only put more pressure on the treasury refinancing.

what a nonsense - i would not be surprised that they do exactly the opposite especially if they have such a star among themselves. it is a crunch time. everybody is making big fun of US by now and even americans start to see it - at least as far as they continue to get fired and their tax...