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    Decisionmaking process behind volume

    Price fluctuation is more important than volume fluctuation. Focus on that instead.
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    Letter to Roubini

    A relatively small number of people move enormous amounts of money in the market. They are immune from recessionary influences. Their customers have become complacent while accepting mediocre returns and tolerating the enormous compensation the money managers receive.
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    Fed's Open market operations

    No. The Fed looks at where the Fed Funds contract is trading in order to determine monetary policy.
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    Opening time and call auction

    The word "La Puta", translated from Spanish into English means "the female prostitute".
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    Robbins Contest: Why Japan's Market is more consistent?

    The commission costs in that contest are very high........~$20 per contract. You won't get very many high-frequency traders participating in the contest who can generate 4, 5, 6 or 7-digit annual returns.
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    Carry trade getting out of hand?

    You're below par. Lighten up.
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    Carry trade getting out of hand?

    If these expected defaults occur, ideally, only wealthier people will suffer if indeed these carry-trades are being done by hedge funds and bank proprietary trading desks. If moral suasion doesn't work in getting those position holders to lighten up, then they'll have to have their feet held in...
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    Books?

    Sports Illustrated magazine.
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    Yield Curve

    If you changed the scaling on your chart, it would be practically "flat".
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    What is "spare capacity"?

    Theoretically, if you're operating at 100% capacity, you can arbitrarily raise your prices for whatever it is you're producing in order to ration out supply to the highest bidders. It could take a long time to build additional capacity to satisfy the demand for your product. It was one of the...
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    Vertical spread moves like turtle until near expiration?

    It's all Greek to me! There might be more buying interest in the 480-call which might be pumping up it's implied volatility at a greater rate than the 460-call.
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    Vertical spread moves like turtle until near expiration?

    There might be some volatility-skewing that's not going your way. The 460-call doesn't have as much "vega" as the 480-call.
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    why is march ZB more active?

    Rollover is usually 2 or 3 business days before the first business day of the delivery month.
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    Point Break Charts

    Point Break?..............Wasn't that a movie with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayzee in the early 1990's? What's the gist of the charting method?
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    Looking for Classic Options Books

    Natenberg, then Cottle
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    Walmart Sees Anemic Start To Holiday Shopping Season, Despite Steep Discounting

    Buying DVD's makes sense for a family because it's cheaper than going to a theater......and you don't have to put up with krapp from rude people.
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    Marty Schwartz's Bond vs SP correlation

    Keep in mind that Schwartz was doing this during the first few years of the S&P contract during the early 1980's.
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    Impact on stock price of your trade

    RATEESQUAD--------------You're a very good moderator.
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    Correlated futures pairs

    Wheat---Chicago versus Kansas City. They're both "Winter wheat". They correlate better than the "Spring wheat" Minneapolis contract. They're a little trickier to execute since they trade on separate exchanges.
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    Psychology of the crowd.

    Your posting makes sense by itself but you have to consider that today's "crowd" in today's markets is a relatively small number of professional money managers who manage enormous sums of money. It's not really a large number of retail investors anymore because they have turned their money over...
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