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stock symbol rgld is a good candidate.

You can buy a student version for $99 if you are a student.

I completely agree. Personally I found the pressure from trading is much less from office politics.

I have also encounted this rule. It's called "free-ride". It seems that violating it will cause serious consequence.

I guess this thread belongs to the chit-chat.

I think he is doing a fine job, provided he is managing more than 100 mm.

Everyone is going short-term nowadays. We are all entering short-term trades. We are pursuing the short-term gains. Even the Fed is playing the short-term game now. The buy-and-hold is officially dead.

Mr. Market has long suspected that Fed is not serious about inflation and refused to arise the long rates. Now it seems that Mr. market is correct.

Cannot be. Where is your data? Last two years, maybe, because Bank of England has been trying to kill the housing boom.

The flatening is in the 2yr-10yr segment, the spread between 2 yr. rate and 3 month rate is still 50 bps. It's not clear whether the curve will invert.

QQQQ is too boring for him.

yes, there are some discussions on simple exotics.

Hull's book ?

KISS is most applicable to futures, where there is a limited number of futures and a complicated model runs into the danger of over-fitting. In equities, a more complicated model is feasible simply because there are so many data which leaves a lot of room to do out-sample testing.

Falun Gong is often portrayed in US media as a peaceful defiance movement against the chinese government. Actually, this movement was supported by the chinese government from the very beginning until the late 90s, when a famous physics professor published an article critical of FLG in an...

I guess this is off the original intention of this thread, but I cannot help jumping in. While I agree that a society that has freedom of speech is better, it in itself does not make its citizens know better. For example, in a recent pool published in Yahoo, most people in US think WMD was...

If you guys want to discuss religion in china or any where, you should go to chit chat.

Ben Bernanke is the new Fed chairman. Any idea about his view on inflation?

gw: There is no need to get into argument with a nut. There are a lot inter-dependence between us and china. For one thing, US is depending on China for cheap credit and checp goods; and China is depending on US for export so that it can solve its own unemployment problem.

Market can be random but yet non-efficient, for example, if it has memory.