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A long time associate of my mother's recently came to him with "an exciting opportunity." Red flag, of course. But based on our history with the fellow, my mother heard him out (oh no!). This man has been traveling around the state and scoping out sheriff's sales. "Over the past year I have...

I'm quite an old-school trader but I understand the necessity to follow modern trends and to get more into social media. Information is easily available there and the speed how it's emerging is impressive. So, I came across stocktwits. Quite good and user friendly. At first sight. But if you do...

Smart people on TV says dumb things to fill air time. They wear thick make up and have thin skin. Lazy production people frame poor content content in visually sexy ways. I like to repackage it occasionally when it reached the absurd. For instance Alibaba: In November of 2014, the CNBC...

1. bar high 2. no

RAD will trade like a $9 coupon bond for one year unless shareholders demand a higher bid. BOD approved but not shareholders yet

How investors lose out to emotion?

Those countries generally have sophisticated economies and export things other than just oil. 90% of Saudi exports and about 90% of government revenues come from oil. The instant oil prices start to rise, fracking operations will start coming online to meet demand. This isn't the 1980s any...

I'd love to hear some critics from you.

Dear All, now I am testing a new strategy. FYI I don't want to quit my job and make a living with trading, I simply felt in love with finance and want to see if of course I can make sone extra money for saving or just spending around. I started learning using finance for metal hedging and then...

Recently started using the "fork" strategy. It's a strategy that is used when big fundamental news come out. It is called "Fork" as it looks like a fork when your orders are placed on both sides of the current price It is supposed to catch the big move the first 2 minutes after the news is...

While it's almost certainly not realistic for you to raise capital at this stage, given the info provided - I'm curious; why do you want to start an offshore hedge fund in particular?

A nice piece NY Times. Any feedback is welcome. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/business/putting-numbers-to-a-tax-increase-for-the-rich.html?_r=1

Hey there! I'm looking to invest more than half of my income every month for the next 10-20 years and I'll start by saying that I have no intention to try and beat the market in general but I do have a high risk tolerance when it makes sense. ETFs seem like the obvious choice for my situation...

We all know that there is a big difference between trading up trending markets versus range bound markets. Different signals are profitable in different markets. How do you use them and mix in different startegies? I personally use up trends in these cases: buy breakouts, trail winning trades...

The major benefit is liquidity - you can trade instantly. The drawbacks are a lot of leverage which some traders may misuse, possibly high fees, and the fact that the counterparty to your trade is the broker instead of another trader. And there's the issue of CFDs are illegal for USA residents...

$USO back into calls at the bottom today. Sold calls near $15.60 and didn't buy puts though....DAMN

The former Fed chair says he's no longer a Republican because the GOP has lost its economic policy mind. It's the stupid economics. That's why he's no longer a Republican, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tells us in his new memoir. Bernanke says he "lost patience with Republicans'...

Plan for a multi polar world economic system for the next century and you'll do fine.

$SHAK more shares being sold by insiders &more shorts coming to this Bearflag tomorrow. Amazing that insider sells will triple current float

Full-reserve banking, which prohibits private money creation, has not been implemented since the 19th century. Thereafter, bank deposits became the dominant means of payment and have retained their position until today. The specific contribution of this paper is to provide a comprehensive...