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I, Timothy Sykes, am not only a famous hedge fund manager, I am also a member of Amazon.com Associates affiliate marketing program. Please, won't you buy some of these books, so that I can earn a 10% referral fee from Amazon.com on your purchases. How pathetic...

Agree with most of your post, except this. Let's glance at the big picture once again, shall we... Brian Hunter went balls to the wall (roughly 8:1 leverage, depending on your source) on a bullish shoulder month natty spread (Mar-Apr), while it inconveniently decided to collapse from $2.49 to...

Nick Leeson was released from a Singapore jail back in 1999, after serving 4 years of his sentence. According to an interview he gave a few weeks ago, "You wouldn't believe how many people have asked me to manage their money." http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=88897

No. Only if all the accounts fall in different ownership categories, such as single, joint, retirement, trust. FDIC coverage is limited to $100,000 per owner (a person, persons or an entity), per member bank.

Aah, good, I was hoping someone -- I assume you've met or seen the guy? -- would comment on that, one way or the other. To be fair, they did leave the door slightly open by calling that (fun) pic "brianhuntermaybe.jpg".

Here's a daily chart of JPY/ISK since Jan. 1, 1999 through yesterday, 8+ years: With the always useful benefit of perfect hindsight, we can observe that this particular carry trade would have worked out beautifully -- put on and left alone -- from the end of 2001 through 2005 (well...

Everyone's innate Sense T should've kicked in by the 2nd paragraph of the OP, to alert you that it's strictly for entertainment and not to be taken seriously.

Apparently, the bartender refused to serve him, plus she got involved when he attacked another patron. Expand and read the full text next to the video.

Sex sells, period. Roosters, huh... the loud opinionated perps are there for some balance (fair and balanced, get it?), to make the perennial leg show appear more PC. <font size=2>Hey, wait a minute... what happened to the roosters?<font>

Yes, but only by the Authorized Participants (broker/dealers, banks and other financial institutions). See p. 10.

Well, if you're talking about this ETF trading at a major discount to its NAV all of a sudden... there are lots of risks here, but that's not a risk I'd be concerned with at all. No one needs to go bankrupt for the arbs to step in, i.e., buy DVB and simultaneously take an opposite long/short...

The fund (symbol DBV) is long futures on 3 highest-interest and short futures on 3 lowest-interest G10 currency pairs, at 2:1 leverage, collateralized by 3-month T-Bills. While it can certainly sustain losses, how do you figure even a theoretical drop to $0, overnight or not, given those...

The fund will be called Solengo Capital. Sort of bicoastal -- Calgary and Greenwich. More on "that little snafu" at Amaranth, what is "Solengo" (for the non-oenophiles among you) and its metaphorical significance here, and a link to an official CNBC video clip online (1m25s) about this...

Many (about 275,000, according to you know who)... here's just one: http://www.econmodel.com/classic/calculators/pv1.php You could also use an HP 12C or similar hand-held, or one of the Excel functions like NPV if you need to generate a table of values or a chart.

:D And I thought Avast! was just the name of a popular antivirus software. Live and learn.

Many, if not most, of the links on their website are broken (always confidence-inspiring...), so I couldn't verify that. For example, click on "Learn More Now" here: If that is, in fact, the minimum trade size, my mistake, that's much better. With micro-lots, that $100 might last a...

Nothing like TA and T&A, rolled into one.

What, Bernanke confiding to Kathleen Hays he's still misunderstood?

KS96, if you're trading the news on IB IDEALPro, you MUST use stop limit orders. (And accept the risk of not getting filled on the initial spike.) Using anything else is an exceptionally bad idea, as you've experienced first-hand.

Not because of who they are, but where they are. The insurance for brokerage accounts is a universal Canadian perk (as alluded to above), nothing to do with Man.