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    Which interest rate to use when calculating greeks?

    Y = (B * y%) / (B - n * y%) where Y is interest rate B is the year basis say 360 n is no. of calendar days to maturity y is the yield on discount basis
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    Which interest rate to use when calculating greeks?

    the 3m T bills rate if in discount, u need to convert to the bond equivalent yield
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    From the trenches of China

    YET !!!
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    From the trenches of China

    i think for the biz wise in china has deteriorated, but as someone mentioned general population the poor that is has no money to begin /w so hardly impacts them, then there r the middle rich class that will still purchase foreign stuffs, then there is the gov't that will pump billions to keep...
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    Massive Manipulation Of Food Prices Alleged Given Steep Drop In Price of Commodities

    how is obama's 700 billion spending package different from the 700 billion bank rescue package, so where's the change? btw how he they come up /w 700 why not 600 or 800 or 1 T, at least change the number man !!!
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    Looking for a successfull trader

    i believe the turtle system is free, why don't u use that, even if someone offer u their system u may not trade it bc it doesn't match ur makeup for a variety of reasons, sort of like saying there r lots of biz out there that runs on auto-pilot and the owners make a living out of it, why don't u...
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    Spreads vs naked

    from my own experience i conclude that even for spreads u can still lose or in your case leave money on the table, it all depends on guessing correctly what when is to happen, there is no one is better than the other it all depends on how the situation pans out
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    Obama taps Mary Schapiro to head SEC

    notice obam keeps hiring people from the grassroots so-called community service people, i think serving the community & running a country /w global impact is quite a different ball game
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    Why dont the airlines do this?

    they sh forgo meals and air steward to cut cost, i can go without food for 20 hours, air flight meals taste like plastic anyway, though one can ask for meals but need to pay like duty free, hire fewer stewardess but better looking ones
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    Another $2 Trillion Leaves The Consumption Market

    it takes years for China to accumulate 2T and US manage to spend that amount in what, days? interesting
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    Traders who still live with their mother.

    not all mothers are sweet, mine tried to decide for me who i sh date when i was younger, those that she doesn't approve she hangs the phone on them or frightens them away when they look for me, i decided one fine day to move out and never looked back, didn't go back home until 12 years later, so...
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    Big Stimulus Plans For Big Debtor Countries Will Not Work

    real world econs is not like academia that works under control environment, policy makers gets pressured into passing policies to benefit special interests, thats why college professors tend to be clueless when confronted /w to how to solve the economy, my 2cts
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    SuperGenius Jimmy Rogers - Bigger, Longer, Uncut!

    just his hse in n.y. would worth quite a bit, not to mention germany, btw, to move to singapore u have to pay a certain sum
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    Cost Of Bailout Hits $8.5 Trillion

    it is pure greed that create this mess, why bail them out, companies even whole empires go belly up all the time and the world hasn't end yet, by doing what they intend will only prolong the pain, sure, those in gov't are paid more than sufficient to pay taxes
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    SuperGenius Jimmy Rogers on the NEW bailout.

    does anyone know how the Fed is going to get 9 T when no one even has more than 2 T
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    SuperGenius Jimmy Rogers on the NEW bailout.

    doesn't look like its doing too well this year
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    SuperGenius Jimmy Rogers on the NEW bailout.

    is it HAP US on bloomberg?
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    2009 Budget defict: +$2 Trillion

    if it is really 2 trillion then USA is definitely finished, even the chinese has less than that in reserves and they supposedly has the most reserves
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    Obama promotes fiscal restraint, big spending

    sort of like saying i'm going to contribute beyond my income to help out my less well off neighbours while at the same reduce my credit card debt? what the heck, i could go take on some loans, then more loans, then more loans, not sure how this works, theorectically can't i keep getting loans...
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    Citigroup rescue bringing hope to global investors, HAHAHA

    i don't know whats the way to fix the market but it seems common sense that throwing a ridiculous sum of money at a bad thing is going to fix it? in history, all gov'ts/ empires that spend obscense amount of money on various projects eventually go broke, sure throw more money in and speed up the...
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