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Here is my list: - God - good or bad luck - Success and Failure - that I just won $10,000 in lottery without me even buying a ticket! - fairy maids: I sweep and clean the floor every Sunday afternoon, but since my roommates have never seen me doing it, they believe there is such thing as...

I would recommend those who haven't watched these documentaries on PBS to watch them. These great films show how times were really tough back then with high unemployment, droughts, diseases... So do you think times have changed for the better or worse since then? Please feel free to share...

So honestly who is feeling the crushing pain on their balls today if they shorted BP yesterday? Just because "everybody" was selling off yesterday, doesn't mean that that was the right thing to do, right?

that's so funny:D I happened to be the one with money, but I am happy I have the experience now:cool:

As a person with mechanical engineering background, I know what tough challenges BP has been facing to shut off the flow of oil, while being under the adverse mass media attention. People on Wall St and those who write such article have no idea what those engineers are doing as the article...

She is cute, isn't she? Jim Cramer has a bad crush on her for sure.

We have heard enough about the recent flash crash of the market, but what about a particular stock? Does simply placing a big 'buy order' or 'sell order' at the market price cause it?

"investors rushed to safe-havens like Gold today..." and the next day they "apparently" rush back to the very same stocks they sold off the day before:p :p

But we already have the first black president, don't we?:)

I recently read on a gift plaque that " How could I ever miss you if you never went away..." I wish somebody gave her a gift that reads "How could I ever learn how to be financially responsible, If I never went to college and racked up so much debt..." But seriously, is there anyone on...

"Don't put all your eggs in one basket!" What if all your eggs are boiled already? :D

ArcelorMittal MT, I would put all my 'eggs in their basket'... :mad:

For example EVVV's volume today, Avg Vol. has been 800K, but today is over 42m so far? I notice that at the news of the acquisitions/take-overs, the price of that stock goes up big and stays FLAT, and Volume jumps 20-50 fold. So who is really buying it, because it remains FLAT throughout the...

Thanks Xflat. I understand what you guys are saying. What I first had in mind was similar to this mathematical graph, where the result (in math) is always positive. Buying a combination of ITM money Call/Puts looks similar to the above...so it had me thinking to come up with a strategy that...

:) :) :) :) :) :) I wasted at least a couple of years of my childhood trying to invent such a machine before I learnt it's not gonna work :) :) :)

thanks guys for shedding light on this so far. Yeah, like I said, I'm still trying to learn more and to come up with the best strategy with the minimum loss. Yeah, by buying the calls/puts, the time value is something that inevitably becomes a loss, however small, on the last day if the...

... but "IF" things go really bad against them, they could lose big...like 400% loss! But what I am working on, is to remove the "IF" from the trade.

To clarify what I really want to figure out: whether the underlying stock makes a large move or a small move, the result be a net profit in either direction. I want to take the speculation, hope, fear, gut feelings, greed, bearishness, bullishness...out of the equation, and it be purely based on...

I stated in my other thread that I'm virtual trading options for now and don't know much about Options trading strategies. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=199711 What I have recently been focusing on and trying to figure out is: how to have a strategy in order to have...

BP is too big to fail, but there is always nothing wrong with buying Puts with Jan 2012 expiry, in case the whole economy collapses again(double dip scenario).