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1. If the use your interpretation for ATM strike, it become easier to understand why a binary call option (European) is worth less than 0.50. 2. Do you think that Vanilla option is not: long one AON, and short K binary calls?

I should have bought options on my forecasting--seriously do they have options on soccer games :)

(1X-1% vs. 1999x1.27%)/2000. Valid for buy on last Friday close, and offload on last Tuesday (yesterday). Division by 2000 is to make odds less than 1.

Thanks for the explanation. I think you got my two main points. I would also add that the crowd pays Rodney because he says what is inside them, confirmed by what they saw recently, and not what they would see shortly.

You need to read books, and history. Do you know how Oxford, the western intellect, and the renaissance were born? The source is Toledo in Muslim-ruled Spain. The problem of muslims was that they listened to their poets and military commanders, while Europe listened to the muslim scientists...

You first need to learn how to spell (for instance red=read):) I believe the NASA and the President are getting it right. There are more than 1.5billion muslims in the world, they sit on mineral wealth. There are muslims american who are large in number. I read somewhere that American's...

I did not know you read other stuff in addition to the opinion of yours truly!:)

1.27%

The upside that corresponds to 1 in 2000 odds is not 0.001% but another number. The estimate was not given, but if our esteemed Pythogoras wants it, it might be revealed. Studentof Pythagoras In :cool:

The retreat allowed some to buy USD and sell JPY in 87.40 area, and hopefully to replay yesterday's gap, as Japanese might redo what was done in markets while they were sleeping. I like to call it, the sleep/jetlag arbitrage (assuming that the Japanese did not take their american coffee).

Are you looking for opinion just for the heck of it, or are a bit disoriented?:)

Could you explain what went wrong with your prediction system? You seemed to have been practically sure, so I am curious.

Haaretz (an Israel newspaper) is reporting: "An Israel Defense Forces soldier has been officially charged with killing a woman in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead in early 2009. The indictment against the soldier, a member of the Givati brigade, was filed on Tuesday following a military...

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Are you counting on futures which are now red? You need a gap down, an open below Thursday's low, and immediately afterwards a rise in the market, to get it nailed . If this happens, I would be impressed. I would not be surprised if the night redness in the futures turns to green or get cut...

What do you think of what Trichet said? Is he trying to give the market reasons to lower the yield so that borrowing costs are lower? Is he desperate because he knows he cannot lower interest rates? What if the market forces him?

An argument would be that they are popular because they are wrong. Could you explain why this argument would be right or wrong? What is your argument? A corollary of the above argument: if one is successful in markets, he/she probably would not be popular in financial information, and might...

Shortie: did you find out what the popular people are doing/saying? I have read articles where some are mentioned, and they state they sold at least 50% of their stock holdings (which the probably bought at the top). You remember that guy who came here on ET stating the 1300 target for SP and...

which time zone?