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    Kospi's Nightmare Settle: Aug 13, '09

    Yes ... I was looking at the SEP options charts when I saw your reply. Normally expiration week is great for me, but I generally avoid the last 30 minutes of trade, so haven't needed to focus on settlement. Still, I have entered/exited options positions near the close, not realizing I could...
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    Kospi's Nightmare Settle: Aug 13, '09

    Thank you very much def - I'm a long-time customer and I do appreciate it. A few follow on questions, if I may: A. On any given day stock orders can be submitted between 14:50 and 15:00, with all of those orders matched at the same 15:00 price? B. On any given day one can submit index...
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    fundamental value of stocks/elite trader's dumbest question

    RMBS Glad you are in the market, chump.
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    Why is no one talking about the S&P500 P/E ratio?

    This is where I think we're in trouble, because those estimates are everyone's best guess of what 'new normal' earnings are going to look like. Consumers are still losing jobs, houses, and net worth. He is on his back for the foreseeable future - a condition unprecedented in the lifespan of...
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    fundamental value of stocks/elite trader's dumbest question

    This is simply not true. Here is an example to illustrate: A stock has a BV/Share of $100, and the shares are trading at $100. All assets are cash and the company has zero debt. Now assume, as you said, it pays zero dividends. If this company earns more than the investor's cost of capital, it...
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    What will Mark the Next Market Top?

    The Nasdaq bubble was marked by fear of the 'Year 2000' software issue and Greenspin's preventive injection of liquidity. Our latest greatest real estate bubble was marked by a peak in ARM resets that occurred 3Q '07. So ... what do YOU think will be the catalyst for blow-off top of our...
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    Kospi's Nightmare Settle: Aug 13, '09

    This question relates to the Kospi 200 index options for Aug expiry, which expired yesterday at the close 14:50 Korea time. I got completely reamed ... wondering if someone could shed some light, beyond the obvious. The gist: Stock and stock index options ceased trading at 14:50 local...
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    Why is no one talking about the S&P500 P/E ratio?

    It's meaningless to look at these types of historical charts, because It Is Different This Time. Duhhh ... But seriously, recently the aggregate S&P 500 posted Negative quarterly earnings (if I'm not mistaken), so everyone is just guessing where steady-state earnings are likely to reset...
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    Biggest scams that people fall for

    Duty Free "The biggest sucker deal in retail." George Costanza
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    The Movie Thread

    Damn. Lose the girlfriend or wife dude. No b*tch is worth sitting through a movie about some b*tch shopping. Then again, if you are female, uhhhh .... I take it back? :p
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    Is the worst behind us?

    Funny thread, but illustrative. For the very short term this raging 'bull market' is masking some extreme underlying conditions. We still have another spike in Alt-A Arms due in about 12 months. Interesting times ...
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    Who Is Don Bright?

    Someone uses his pseudonym on ET sure enough. But everyone knows 'DB' is a semi-retired porn actor. Currently he spends most of his time chasing real acting gigs - you may have seen him in a couple of music videos here and there. But I heard he still dips his 'toe' in the blue screen from...
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    Value Investors Club

    I know this is an ironic place to be asking such a question, but ... anyone here currently or previously a member of VIC?
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    Advertising drag

    Well, I just updated my flash player but the problem still recurs intermittently. Oh well ....
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    Advertising drag

    Ok ... I'm concluding it has to do with my piss-poor internet connection. (I'm on a somewhat remote mountain hillside in what is still considered a developing Asian country.) It is not pop-up ads or a virus. When I navigate to a new forum page, the bottom activity bar reads 'tranferring...
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    Advertising drag

    This is to complain about how an advertisement page interrupts whenever one navigates from one page to the next. At first I could deal with it occurring occasionally, but now it is every page, and simply eating too much of my time and patience. No other website I visit pushes advertising onto...
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    IB & Professional Status

    You are out of line, and I've asked that your posts be removed from this thread.
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    IB & Professional Status

    Thanks ... I'm looking at some roles in sell-side fundamental research so there are obvious restrictions on individual equities. But, if we get a 'double-dip' or an earthquake topples downtown Tokyo, for example, I would want to actively manage a position in broad index futures and...
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    IB & Professional Status

    I may take a job that would change my status from individual to professional. Beyond a change in some data access fees, how will my IB service change? I have this vague impression from somewhere that IB will send my employer a monthly summary of my trading activity. Is that so? I ask...
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