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Dreamer - Hopefully you didn't interpret my post to you as either acrimonious or inaccurate - since that wasn't my intent. I wanted to understand where you were coming from. For me, definitionally, a real "hedge" always sets a maximum limit of risk. Tactics to partially mitigate risk by...

acrary - In your risk example, it looks like you're assuming that you always exit your winning positions at the same amount of your initial risk. It's an interesting arithmatic example - you either win your risk amount or you lose it. But it ignores position managment factors - like...

bvam - your example assumed there was no premium and no bid/ask spread to the price of the call you were buying - even deep in the money options don't sell for only their intrinsic value usually. Factoring in proper call vs. put pricing and basically a long put is equivalent to a short...

One leg of a short straddle doesn't "hedge" the other. The premium from one leg might partly offset the risk of the other, but it's not really a "hedge" - anymore than you could classify selling a covered call a "hedge" for the long equity leg. If you've sold a short ATM straddle @ 50 for...

Just curious, isn't there a non-disclosure agreement involved with the TurtleTrader.com related materials that you've used? If there was an NDA, you'd be in breach to disclose and especially to sell in any form.

Corruption? Hardly exclusive to republican politicians. The dems have nothing to brag about there. Unfortunately for all of us, it's become a fundamental attribute of both parties. No statesman anymore - just politicians. :(

You used that line already on Katrina. It's a very poor dodge suggesting you have no meaningful points to make. Nobodies asking for a doctoral thesis here - three bullet points of specific instances/events you characterize as "war mongering and US interferance" which justifies...

If you look through the intraday charts of the S&P, 10am and 3pm will probably pop out as the most frequent timeframes to see significant price reversals or at least counter directional moves (especially when there's a gap open). 4:00-4:15pm in the index futures also seems to have a lot of...

Powell's about the only centrist member of the cabinet it seems a lot of the time. But gee, when he's compared to ultra-right psycho clowns like Rumsfeld, et al - Powell probably seems "left wing". But then again, about the only ones standing to the right of the Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice triad...

See, there you go again with inane and meaningless generalities. Exactly what American "aggression" are you talking about that supposedly justifies the international "community" (there's an unearned term) nuking the US?? Without at least a few specific indictments of such capital level...

You want to talk about current foreign policy - great. It's basically sucked for the last 20+ years regardless of which party was in the White House. However, doing a lousy job of picking your horses on the international landscape isn't the same as "aggression". So perhaps you'd care to...

That's how the Elliott Wave garbage works - it keeps changing until it's 100% accurate, in hindsight :)

Madison - yeah, it's not the "the Pentagon is near downtown Washington" or we have military HQs near civilian centers that's wrong with candletrader's argument. Sure, if Bin LardAss could nuke the Pentagon, he could claim that the collateral damage of the surrounding civilian population was...

To convince the Japanese to surrender of course. The Japanese were given the opportunity to surrender prior to the first nuke drop but refused. They were again given the opportunity to surrender after Hiroshima but again refused in spite of the demonstration of the destructive force...

In the final analysis, the formation of a black hole is the result of having sufficient energy density to warp the local hyperdimensional space-time matrix enough to produce a dimensional fissure (the affects of which we perceive as a hypergravity well). Ultra-high energy particle...

candletrader - interesting, albeit illogical and selective, leap. You must have missed that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets, not merely civilian centers? Not to mention, one should not forget that Japan launched the war with a Sunday morning raid on Pearl Harbor that killed...

Try the Yahoo finance site - think its finance.yahoo.com

apex - Which euro-pacificits were you thinking of dying in WW2 before the US joined the battle? The Brits? Yep, bunch of them unfortunately died before the US was able to jump in to help. Although, let's not forget that Chamberland's "let Hitler take Austria and Poland and he'll leave the...

richtrader - OK, I guess someone can decide to call an egg a baseball too if they want to. By that very limited view, Microsoft Word and the majority of commercial programs (at least those that do more than fairly trivial functions) aren't standalone. Presumably if a PC already had the...

Huh?? What, you think programs written in C++ don't require DLLs, OCXs, etc.? Would you consider Microsoft Word a standalone program? It's written in C++ but uses (among other things) the MFC runtime DLL. No different than a VB program needing access to the VB DLL. Of course a compiled...