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Do you spend a lot of time on bodybuilding.com misc?

Is learnt really a word or is it British English?

Yeah well there's that. LOL.

Those probabilities are calculated from the Black-Scholes models that calculate greeks also, I think. That mean's they're an "approximation" for starters and secondly they assume brownian motion so a random possibility of the underlying moving higher or lower. For example the probability might...

If you buy a bond and hold it to maturity, assuming the issuer doesn't default, then rising rates won't matter to you. The bond will lose value when it is marked to market but if you're just going to hold it to maturity regardless you get repaid face value.

I don't disagree with you. Just wanted to point a guy in a good direction rather than a never maturing bond fund. Meh, I'm not getting paid a commission either way :p

Insurance companies and the policies they write are insured by the state government where the insurance company is incorporated. That's why they are legally allowed to say "guaranteed income", if the insurer goes bankrupt the policy holder is protected. This is the whole reason insurance...

I think of gambling in terms of expectancy. Use a roulette wheel for instance, betting on one number yields a very high potential payout (not sure but I know it's north of 30x the bet) although it still has negative expectancy for the bettor, so they are hoping to get lucky and hit their number...

Tell your friend to look into fixed annuities, it sounds like they want no/minimal risk and steady income, that's called a fixed annuity.

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This is what I have seen and read, the price moving to size idea makes sense. Although Sprout if I'm understanding you correctly I think it may be referring to the inverse of the same idea. On one hand you have the "price moves to size" idea and on the other you have the "absence of activity =...

I'm not trading live yet, in the researching phase so take this for what it's worth which is probably less than zero. I look at volume from the perspective of market makers, who want high volume because for them volume = orders = $$$. If there is high volume at a given price level it is...

I'm not sure if I'd consider ZH as "press", unless you consider TMZ also as "press".

There's a thread here on ET titled "Market Depth Patterns" or something like that, plug "market depth patterns" into the search you'll find it. There's some very interesting stuff in there about scalping and DOM.

If they survive and start selling a meaningful amount of cars, wait till the UAW shows up and the real fun starts.

That's basically my thoughts too, though I too am often wrong :D. Also I'm not a bond or rates trader so my opinion is probably worth less than zero. With the yield curve where it is, all else being the same I'd think the 5-7 year range just looking at the small yield difference for going...

Are there any brokers or research providers who provide third order greeks such as speed, vanna etc.?

Soon you'll be able to pay with convenient Wal-Mart redeemable tokens, earned from working in their new coal mines.

Marty, where do you think long bonds are going? Curious to hear from someone in the trenches.

I agree with Maverick, also a lot of these things are libor linked such as "libor + 5% or whatever but that doesn't mean they're floating.