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    Continuous Contracts

    1) The chart data is presented in such a way that the expiring contract, i.e. the present front month, "feeds into" the next contract, i.e. the next front month, and on and on. :cool: 2) The larger the price differential between the expiring contract and the next contract, the greater the...
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    Ice Station Zebra

    You could simulate "that" by walking out onto the ice at Oak Street Beach while only wearing a bathing suit and flip-flops. :cool:
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    MAUNA LOA - Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million Mark

    ? ..... go "long" macadamia nuts? :confused: :D 2) Is it "millennia" or "milleniums"? :confused: :p
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    Only 300 people on ET

    1) That "300 number" will spike up the next couple of weeks then revert to 300 on January 6th when all of the college students on Christmas break return to school. :cool: 2) Do you attend BC or BU? :confused:
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    Basic question for experienced options traders

    1) Option buyers "exercise". Option sellers get "exercised" or "assigned". :) 2) Hypothetically speaking, in the event of such a scenario, your option position goes away and is replaced with a long-futures contract at the strike price of $50/ounce. :) 3) Yes. :) 4) You can offset the...
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    $10.10 Minimum Wage Would Actually Create New Jobs: Study

    ..... Where?.....At the dollar store? :confused: :D
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    Merry Christmas

    1) Drownpruf is a douche. :( 2) I'll send some money to your PayPal account. :cool:
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    Anyone can explain this WTI backwardation?

    1) I'll say something, then you'll disagree with me. :( 2) Someone else will say something, you'll disagree with them. :mad: 3) Another poster says something......
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    Basic question for experienced options traders

    1) Are you on Christmas Break from Rutgers or Syracuse? :confused: 2) You're confusing and intermingling the option value with the underlying contract value at the strike price. :(
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    Trading with $0 commissions -- "Robinhood"

    1) ?...... market-orders only? :confused: :D 2) It's the Summer of 2000 all over again! :eek: :p
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    Sandwich Artist comes close to solving age old math problem

    1) "Interesting". :cool: 2) Why can't those guys do something "worthwhile" with their math ability....like tell me today's settlement of Feb Crude, right now. :D
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    Day traders / scaplers and limit days?

    1) Theoretically, the market can blow through your stop-order, lock limit, remain at lock limit, with your stop-order in an unfilled pool of orders. :( 2) I believe the last time CL made a limit-move of $10 was January-1991 with the breakout of the Gulf War. It was a "different" era. Traders...
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    NG term-structure

    John Arnold is back. :eek: :D
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    Rentech Medallion fund

    If you passionately express your scorn and contempt to Simon directly, he might feel compelled and shamed enough to show proof of "the numbers". :cool: :D :p
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    Anyone can explain this WTI backwardation?

    1) You can give "blame/credit" to excessive speculative trading. :) 2) The deferred months are more dominated by "Big Oil" companies. :cool: 3) The front months have too many speculative traders over-trading, "too little", "actual" oil. :eek: 4) Get out of Jan14 and into Feb14 and stop...
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    The American educational system is a disaster, so the rich turn to the best

    As long as they are concentrated into a several square block area, then it's not so "bad". :)
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    Did bigarrow move to NewYork?

    That RV is gonna get "tagged" with graffiti. :cool: :( :D
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    Ag Options

    They should be able to broker any US-traded futures contract but the commissions could be higher than you expect depending on the firm's clearing status. :cool:
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    The American educational system is a disaster, so the rich turn to the best

    1) The "problem" is "diversity". If the US could remove the underachieving minorities from the data sample, its ranking would be a lot higher. :cool: 2) Homogenous societies like those European countries don't have the same problem.....yet. :eek:
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    What Is the Reason For Wide Spread Options?

    1) Is it simply "stale" quotes? :confused: 2) Are those stocks (HTB) hard-to-borrow? :confused: 3) Are there weird "corporate governance" issues going on? :confused: 4) Is there a "large" cash dividend and/or stock dividend pending? :confused: 5) Illiquidity of the underlying shares could...
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