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I don't know the actual numbers but I'm sure it's far above $10,000 ounce. In fact, a few years back rhodium was going for $10,000 an ounce yet nobody found it worthwhile to create rhodium via nuclear reactions.

What would kill gold would be fiscal sanity from the U.S. government. Ain't gonna happen. I pity the short sellers.

There's nothing new here. Nassau county had to dumb down its police exam years ago because not enough blacks were passing. This is going on all over the country.

I agree. I'd have a heart attack taking the sort of draw downs that neke does. But, damn, it's interesting to see how his account bounces up and down.

IRAs don't allow margin or shorting of stocks so just what sort of trades can you do in an IRA? This is a serious question, I'm still trying to develop a trading system so right now my IRA is in stocks and a few bonds that just bounce up and down with the market (so the average return per year...

Sad to say, but after looking at the CBOE web site it looks like I will not be able to hedge my IRA by buying 1,000,000 puts on SPX.

That's right -- impoverish every retired person on a fixed income pension, and make savers into suckers one last time, ensuring that no one will be so stupid as to save ever again. Sounds like a plan.

How do you short stocks in an IRA? Or do you only day trade in the long direction?

We certainly need to slash the size of the military (which as Ron Paul has long stated means drastically scaling down what we expect to do with it -- no more playing world cop). But at best that would cut $300 to $400 billion from the annual deficit, so there would still be $1200 billion to go...

Fox viewers have mostly swallowed the neocon kool aid, so are convinced that Ron Paul is in league with Al Qaeda. After all, he doesn't think we should stay in the Middle East forever and just keep killing Muslims like so many whack-a-moles.

Our politicians caring about America as a nation (rather than a source of campaign contributions and cushy lobbying jobs after they lose their election)? Fat chance with that.

Surely you meant the 150/160/170 fly.

In the 2008 presidential primaries the only candidate on the left who was honest and right about our foreign policy was Kucinich. And on the right the only candidate who was honest and right about our foreign policy was Ron Paul. Both candidates are regarded as kooks by the mainstream people...

The face value on those federal issued coins is a joke. One ounce silver eagles have a face value of $1 but actually trade at $35. One ounce gold eagles have a face value of $50 but actually trade north of $1400. So the real issue is this: Will those gold and silver silver coins be valued at...

The chief advantage MM have is that they buy at the bid and sell at the ask. Because they stay delta neutral at the end of each day they are permitted much higher margin ratios, which makes it feasible for them to buy and sell large blocks of stocks or futures for delta hedging.

I don't think *you* get the point. It is entirely reasonable to say that trading iron condors requires being able to estimate the probability of hitting the short strikes, and to say that no such method of estimating probabilities will work in the real world, and thus that trading iron condors...

I lose money in my IRA by investing it in stocks.

No, speculators always get blamed when prices go up when they actually have very little to do with causing the price increases. (Strangely, speculators never get any credit when prices go down, even though the good ones are on the short side at that time.) The world population grows every...

“The idea of going on strike when no one really notices,” Huffington said. “Go ahead, go on strike.” That's exactly how I feel about public employees going on strike.