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Where is Phil's track record? Or is he another paid options newsletter with a losing record? No winning percentages, please.

Big news would be news of a private placement for the remaining USG shares to soak up the final slug.

He got connected with a promoter for IOC and bot some IOC calls. http://www.businessinsider.com/shia-labeouf-pimps-interoil-stock-2010-3

ACAS 6.14 ASPS 28.90 ATPG 12.55 BBEP 17.66 CFN 24.86 KALU 44.44 KBR 25.44 KFN 9.14 MDCA 13.44 NTZ 3.74 3.80 PIR 9.17 SFL 20.88...

Anybody take a look at some of those properties? I wouldn't touch them until the cap rate is 15%.

Who's gonna buy the boomer's houses? There have been some people making the point that big cap stocks have been weak because the public has been selling for the last few years, and the public is in blue chips. Could be same for houses for next 20 years . . . More supply than demand.

Shorter version of this article: these guys are unemployed. They might make some money trading, but no mention is made of how much capital they have. I suspect it's pretty large. They sold out of their specialist firm at the top.

Another interesting point made in the article is that average performance of the fund is different from average performance of an investor. A fund that returns 50%/year for five years with small assets and then loses 50% with substantially more assets can generate a negative return per dollar...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20100910/bs_ft/981a7710bcff11df954b00144feab49a "According to new research, the 80-year-old Mr Soros has produced $32bn for his customers since setting up in 1973, an average of over $900m a year. Put another way, Mr Soros and his team of 300 have made their...

As you can probably tell, I made a close study of Kirk's trading while he was still publishing his trades.

After his recent redesign of his site, it looks like he's saying that he's beaten the market every year of his career. He also includes stats from 2000-2007. Every year is positive and the arithmetic mean is around 33%. The performance link is buried deep in the middle of this section...

I would put most of it in dividend paying stocks. There is a real demand for bonds and a fear of stocks . . . so many of these companies pay more in dividends than they do on bonds. And many companies trade for less than their cash, which is just as good as money.

I think alot of people thought Obama would be as pro-business as Clinton. So when Obama turned out not to be a New Democrat like Clinton, it came as a bit of a surprise.

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-news/stocks/exchange-insight/trade-data.html?fourWayKey=GG00B1YQ7219GGUSDSSMU Interesting trading in TPOU . . . over 150000 shares trade at 8, but the bid is at $7.85, where a few thousand shares trade. If you can put in a bid at...

When you combine the bid/ask and the the zero-sum aspect of options trading, it is a bit like the 20% take at the horsetrack. But apparently if only I had the "right attitude" and "worked hard enough" and learned to put on complicated 7-leg positions after buying somebody's 12 month mentoring...

If you can predict the timing and the extent of a move, then you've solved 100% of the problem. Yes, if I knew McAfee was going to be acquired, I would buy options too.

To take the other side of the argument, there do seem to be ways to make money in options. There may be some bivalent outcomes that are better played with options, taking advantage of the "convexity," as one poster put it. Adam Warner at DailyOptionsReport seems to have some strategies that...

I wouldn't pay anything for mentoring. Trading is more like dieting than knowing how to play the piano . . . Everybody knows how to lose weight, they just don't follow the plan. If there is a way to make money in options, it should be for sale at Amazon.

"Plenty of people earn a living from the options market. But it's not easy." Really? Any names? "It's not easy" is a flaw, not a feature.