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Gaps down across the board. Did I miss a memo? What gives?

.. are we exporting our nutjobs to Canada or are they growing their own now..?

Chicken feet??!? WTF chicken feet? If I have every heard saber rattling, this is it. Who the hell cares about chicken feet. Read between the lines and draw your own conclusions. I have been around this world long enough to know this has fuckall to do with chicken feet.

I check the prices all the time. I like being able to just look at a number and say Oh, there's a 60% the S&P will be above 1100 in a month and a half, or a 20% chance it will be under 900 in three months. If I ever find those probabilities to be out of whack, they are going to be very easy...

I didn't believe those numbers; no way do we export that much to China. I thought all we sent them were busted TV's and T-bills. Turns out it's even more. 71.5 billion in 2008. Wow. http://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html

I have no idea what you guys are talking about, but I love me a good conspiracy theory. Anybody got a link?

My understanding is during rollover week, you simply watch volume and as soon as far month volume > near month volume, you start tracking far month.

From another thread, It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt: An interesting few minutes, but what has always puzzled me is when they talk about a run on a bank: I don't get how a bank "calls in its loans". Doesn't a person buying a house or a car (or a business...

I would like to borrow some of this money at zero percent. Actually, I will take all I can get. How do I qualify?

Are you bragging? Selling? Teaching?

To test automated trading for real money on the cheap. Also, maybe one of my very marginal algorithms could be profitable with no commission overhead.

I know it's a zero sum game, and when I lose that means somebody else won. But why do people stop-hunt? There must be profit in it because I can't believe that anybody's purpose would be to make me lose money while losing money themselves. If we are talking about a forex bucket shop, of...

Free is a damn good deal. I read everything I could find on their website and there doesn't seem to be any limits on frequency or minimum hold time, although you would still be subject to the day trading account balance rule. Can anyone confirm or deny? Could you really scalp tick by tick...

I wish you would skip posting for the rest of the day every time you misspell a word or use a text message shortcut. This made my eyes bleed.

The Jan 2012 GLD 170 strike call option has an ask of $5.20 today. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/os?s=GLD&m=2012-01 How many of you have loaded up, y'know, just in case? There's a surprising 1863 in open interest so you will be in good company..

For a practical application, start watching GLD options. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/os?s=GLD&m=2010-02 High volume, very liquid, tight spreads, $1 between strike prices out to +-$60 up to a year out. It's helped me huge in getting a handle on what ITM, ATM and OTM options will do given a...

If you can't afford to lose it, don't gamble it. In the same way that a casino has less than a 1% edge, they still don't worry about any one bet because they have table limits. Losing 1 or 10 or 100 in a row won't hurt them. If you walked in with a billion dollars in cash and wanted to...

Just because you GET 100:1 leverage, does not mean you have to USE 100:1 leverage.

Love this kind of curiosity, fun! Who else looked for their birthday first? :D Mine's an up day :p Interesting to note, April 15 has the highest probability of being an up day by a whole bunch. (for the non-US readers, that's the day our income taxes are due)

I'm pretty sure the transaction fee / redemption fee is there to prevent exactly what you are trying to do..