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Enough with the metaphors. Give us something we can work with. Come on, man! :)

Interesting point. All those damn smelly hippies from the 60's are still screwing the country. We'll see how things go with the new administration. I'm optimistic, but it seems we've dug one helluva hole for ourselves.

I supported McCain when he ran for office against Bush. But after the Bush debacle, how could I vote republican? How could ANYONE vote republican? The McCain/Gramm marriage was just icing on the cake, even though McCain kicked him out midway through the election. Gramm during economic...

Phil sounds like one helluva guy. "Gramm was one of five co-sponsors of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. One provision of the bill was referred to as the "Enron loophole" because the House Agriculture Committee drafted it and it was later applied to Enron. Some critics blame...

Amazing. So one sided. There is more than enough blame to go around. Let's start here, a republican senator from Texas, Phil Graham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gramm "Gramm and the 2007 mortgage and 2008 economic crises Some economists state that the 1999 legislation...

I don't know. You tell me. There's a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say. They have no disregard to embetter themselves or me. And he, unfortunately, has been to too many disaster as president. This...

Exactly! All Obama needs as one of those little mustaches to go with his fascist rhetoric. This country needs to wake up and repeal the 22nd amendment so George Bush can serve his country for another 8 years. The last 8 years were the best in our history and probably in any country's...

The banks account for very little on the DOW right now, something like 3%. They can go to zero and the dow would only drop 400 points or so (assuming everything else stayed the same). The problem with the insider trading report is the insiders are well aware investors read that information...

And for the OP, I guess that's the downside to managing a huge portfolio. You can't just liquidate and hide the cash under your mattress. I have a feeling Warren will be just fine, though.

Man, did you ever. We need to chip in and get that boy some prozac. He's got anger issues. He'll read these posts tomorrow and pull a Mike Tyson: "I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. I'm on...

I guess it comes down to terminology. When I think of a bull put spread or a bull call spread, I immediately picture a graph with the price of the underlying higher than the short strike. Obviously, if the price moves against you (lower than the short strike), the positive theta and negative...

Yes. Futures are up since the bell. It's hard to believe the market has any faith whatsoever in financials right now. Tomorrow should be interesting. Maybe a 40 point gain (followed by a 50 point loss Thursday).

I notice things like that too. For instance: Try FedEx Express (try Federal Express Express?) Order a PCB board (Order a Printed Circuit Board board) I need your vehicle's VIN number. (I need your vehicle's Vehicle Identification Number number)

Wait a minute. If one benefits from a drop in IV and one is negatively impaired by and increase in IV...That's, uh, the same thing, right? :D

Actually, both of these spreads have negative vega. Maybe you're thinking about something else?

Wonder how much something like that would cost. $4K? If Apple can keep weight and power consumption under control, it would be a great feature.

I thought this thread had something to do with BIG, the store once named Odd Lots in the Midwest. Somehow it all fits together, though. Maybe you can trade 33 of their shares at a discount?:D

Read? Like a book or something? Nonsense. The shock of learning something new might kill them. :D

I hope "looser" is a joke.

Day trading isn't everything, Aaron. Plenty of ways to make a killing in current market conditions.