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They blew any remaining credibility with the Obama Peace Prize..

Would you recommend any of his books?

I wonder why TLT was down 1.4% today while bonds were basically flat?

Maybe they buy bonds that have one year left to maturity, or maybe they just roll over 48% every year. Try looking at a chart of TLT price/20 year yield and see if there is much correlation. TLT did run up to 120 or so for a short time around 2008/2009 and then fell back down.

Of course Atticus has losses. I didn't realize how bad it was getting until I saw that he had to put his house up for sale. Probably underwater on his mortgage to Michael Corleone. http://www.forbes.com/2005/10/06/cx_sc_1007homeslide_4.html (It's slide number 4, I thought I could stop the...

Atticus did answer your question right away, you just have to be able to translate to the language the rest of us speak. I am always amazed at how a simple question on an internet forum can generate so many replies that don't answer the original question. The worst is when someone actually...

In other words "It's contained".

ETA: I am looking at a managed fund that does something similar. It really helps to almost eliminate the downside risk. Their annualized return since inception (just over 3 years) is over 8%, S&P500 -0.01%. And their portfolio beta is usually less than .5.

So why not just take 5% of a long portfolio and buy SPY puts?

Are you going to tell us?

I was just reading a summary of a report that said for buyers of ATM index put options to make a profit, a 1987-type event would have to occur 1.3 times a year. AFAIK it didn't say anything about cheap OTM options. I'll see if I can find a link. EDIT: Here it is...

Here's a link. 1410 pages and I think over 10,000 posts. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49586

Start a thread and I will read it. Hopefully the trolls and assholes will stay off it. (Probably too much to hope for.) I agree with Howard, shouting blanket statements is less than worthless. I also wanted to add that Thinkorswim used to put on free seminars touting the use of ICs. They...

There's always E-Mini futures and options on them. I think I read on this forum a few times that they are not subject to the PDT rules. Plus you can lose your money a lot faster.

From the "latest official" report I read, Obama was signing the order just before market close on Friday.

I guess I know why the spike at the close on Friday. You don't suppose word of OBL being killed was leaked to anyone, do you? ETA: Now I am reading that it happened Sunday, I thought I had seen where it was a few days ago.

I was paper trading options on Emini S&P500 futures on Friday. I sold a 1360/1360 straddle and with about two minutes to go the short put was in the money by about two points IIRC, so I bought them back. Just then the futures did a moonshot and the short calls ended up in the money. I think it...

Do you have a link to a legitimate source?

Substitute RIMM for EBAY and see how it would have worked if you did this yesterday.

Damn. I was hunting all day for a high vol stock that was going to announce after the bell today to virtual trade a double diagonal on, especially one that has weeklys.