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IB charges fed funds rate + 1.5%, but boxes are like fed funds rate + 0.25%

I've been using box spreads for financing for a few years to get even lower rates than IBKR's margin. But why can't we directly trade financing on an exchange instead of doing it through the backdoor with box spreads? Seems like that could be a way more efficient and liquid market for...

Consenting adults should be able send each other payments. There's a wide gulf between that and actual anarchy.

There was never any such thing as trickle down theory. That was just a retarded caricature used by leftist politicans who had never heard of the laffer curve or the correlation between economic freedom and economic growth and substituted their own imagination for understanding the motives of...

Long term, this meme is the only way things can go.

I think there is a very high probability of a debt restructuring deal where the offshore senior unsecured bondholders get >66% of face value. Buy them while they're 27%. This is literally how Fitch got its recovery rating of RR4...

It is impossible to infer these things from looking at the blockchain. The study is bunk.

What do you mean by exporting deflation? Taking on so much foreign-held government debt that it meaningfully reduced the money supply in the rest of the world?

1. What the hell happened in 1990? Yield curves were pretty flat before that, and much less flat after that. 2. Anyone buying 30-year treasuries at 1.69% during 5% inflation is out of their fucking mind. Bitcoin is infinitely better.

Is there some market data subscription I need to be able to chart bond prices more than 6 months back?

Expanding the box spread to show its individual legs doesn't work. You have to navigate through the option chain to create a whole separate row in TWS for each of the individual legs, and then you can set each of those to liquidate last. Would be a nice quality of life feature to let us set...

on TWS the price charts for bonds only go 6 months back. Is there any workaround?

This is good for bitcoin because now all the people who are reflexively 180 degrees opposed to everything trump says have to come out in favor of bitcoin. Expect a Mea Culpa from Krugman for years of really dumb fud about bitcoin.

If I've already shorted a stock, without pre-borrow, is there any way to cover without returning the shares so I can short the same shares again later in the day without having to gamble on getting another locate?

50%/year on 1M is not all that impressive actually. I did better than that in 2020 with <1M. 50% a year on 1B+ is much more impressive. There is a long tail of anomalies too small for the big hedge funds to waste their time allocating 0.001% of their NAV.

The only good use of a blockchain is a decentralized cryptoasset like bitcoin. (and the only cryptoasset worth a damn is bitcoin) Without decentralization, there's no point in using a blockchain instead of a much more efficient centralized database. All these supposed applications of blockchain...

trade small illiquid markets that the big boys can't trade. Korean microcaps or something. But you'll need more than 2 hours a day to do it well.

no

I suppose I could generate the activity log for the trailing 365 days (it won't go longer than that) and then match it up with my current positions and by process of elimination determine that if my purchase isn't on the activity log it must be long term by now.

obviously yes. If two orders come in for half your size 10 milliseconds apart they each skip you and you don't get a fill. I've never used an all-or-none order in my life, because if it's +EV to buy X, then it's +EV to buy X/2.