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    Buybacks only exist because companies dilute shareholder equities due to compensation

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/47157340 The board of directors of International Business Machines raised its dividend by 13 percent and approved an additional $7 billion stock buyback plan. Instead of that 7 billion buyback, pay that out instead as cash as dividends?
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    Instead of paying a cash dividend, this is what GOOG is doing with retained earnings

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/us-space-asteroid-mining-idUSBRE83N06U20120424 Funding hobbies, such playing astroids with real ships. Or this. http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs373/questions/20126/driverless-cars-called-part-of-googles-mounting-research-trash-pile Google...
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    How much full time proprietary traders earn?

    Not everyone who plays Highschool football becomes a Superbowl star quarterback. Trading is just like Sports. 98% don't make the cut.
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    Minimum Wage

    Then why do you care. The Minimum wage is just a Stub quote. Do you complain about the stub quotes you see on the order book?
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    This crash is a big old dud, VIX not even 22 yet, put premiums suck

    Because of the media doom and gloom. People should be buying up insurance expecting the big 20% drop in june. Marc Faber is making the rounds.
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    This crash is a big old dud, VIX not even 22 yet, put premiums suck

    Why is the VIX not breaking 22?
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    Harvard 2006: Housing boom will not end in a crash.

    Bush graduated from Yale. That pretty much tarnishes Ivy League schools for me.
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    Anyone having issues with your data feed?

    ES is trading but I do not see anything on the order book for equities.
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    SPY tape is moving so slow now.

    It is slow as if SPY was some small cap that did not trade much.
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    Option Max Pain Theory

    Only 20 contracts. You only made 24 bucks on the trade.
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    IB's Yield Enhancement Program

    If you have no Margin debit, they cannot loan out your shares.
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    Option Max Pain Theory

    Tip only short options on the SPY ETF.
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    Germany has the lowest Youth unemployment

    http://www.npr.org/2012/04/04/149927290/the-secret-to-germanys-low-youth-unemployment About 60 percent of German high school graduates travel the same path as Dittmar, choosing vocational over academic education. Throughout his training, Lufthansa pays Dittmar the equivalent of $1,000 a...
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    Time to bring back the draft/ 2 year rotations?

    Exactly, everyone has to have skin in the game.
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    Time to bring back the draft/ 2 year rotations?

    Cut the corporate welfare packages, like the Chevy Volt subsidies etc..
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    Time to bring back the draft/ 2 year rotations?

    Instead of sending millenials to college right after high school to rack up debts, party. Why not go back to 2 year rotations and no college exceptions. Everyone serves, gets some discipline and backbone and get on the GI bill. This would also limit permawars, now American voters would not...
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    Lotto Mania: Jackpot almost 2/3rd of a billion

    And the winners will be broke 5-7 years later with a huge debt on the books as well.
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    End of the quarter dressing.

    Well they would dump positions they acquired this week next week. Looks like the run up was this week because everyone wanted to goose the returns for this quarter.
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    End of the quarter dressing.

    I wonder if come next week stocks will drop once all the funds finish their end of the quarter dressing to boost the numbers on their funds.
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    Short AAPL $620 I got 'em

    Last print 28.30 Good Job.
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