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It is possible but you have to be making money on a risk-adjusted basis. Otherwise, it will never happen.

What really matters is making $ on a risk adjusted basis, not % P&L. Traders know to focus on what makes money over time sufficiently enough to cover the inevitable losses. This is a large revenue (in terms of leveraged assets controlled), low margin business (a trader may average "gains of...

For what its worth I was talking to the chief economic officer of a well known large cap bank recently. In his words the energy markets are "all manipulated". If you don't have a large size or information advantage in these markets you are playing someone's else's game.

I don't think that NY Times article is far off the mark. I have spoke to industry people about the inability of their E&P companies to make money in certain shale plays such as the Haynesville. In my opinion the potential of some of the shale plays is overblown. Shale oil & gas is here to...

What's the rush? You're buying leaps. You can afford to take some time to accumulate the position.

What's you question? I'm sure I could answer it.

You might want to check out the book: "Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company Public Without an IPO" by David N. Feldmand.

Good luck now that the website is down and the bank accounts frozen. What about the guys that had millions on deposit with these websites? Wow. Although they should've seen the risk.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411 Incredible. Confirms what many of us have suspected for years.

What I don't understand is how these guys are keeping millions with online poker companies. How do they know their money is safe, accessible, and wont be seized by the IRS or something? The industry that is not even entirely legal, so anything could happen. Also, nobody seems to raise any...

"The Warren Buffett way" - Excellent book and quick read "Of Permanent Value" - Intriguing read but long "Riches among the Ruins" Not related to value investing, but a phenomenal atypical real on the markets.

It will cost more than that, no doubt. The iraq war was only supposed to cost 50 billion dollars, to be paid for with iraqi oil. Does anybody seriously think Libya won't be the next Iraq?

it is on my screen.... just taken 11:28 EST

Energy companies. CNX is a good one. Its has both exposure to Appalachian basin coal and natural gas. Or just outright short JPY/USD. However, odds are you will lose money on this mindless speculation.

Exactly. Its not like you can "write" a warrant like you can for an option to take advantage of this.

I guess goldman is betting they will flip this thing to the unsuspecting public speculators in an IPO real soon. That is a valuation of $100 per user assuming 500 million users, and a p/e of roughly 100. Goldman is running the risk of facebook accidentally going public, which would be a real...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11006/1115884-53.stm

Well you can thank these guys for the new bull market. Its nice to have a change of pace since the rampant uncertainty starting in 2008. I'm expecting DOW 18,000 this decade, which isn't spectacular but better than the last decade. Although sooner or later the government is going to crash the...

"Fraud on the market" cases are essentially allegations by a plaintiff that management of a company made material "misstatements or omissions", which caused the stock of a company to trade at an artificially inflated price. Then, once the "truth" comes to light, the stock drops dramatically...

The only people making money off prosper are the website owners and delinquent debtors.