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What is the largest, most liquid ETF that deals exclusively in AAA corporates?

Nothing that makes 5% per month is low risk.

There was a paper floating around a couple of years ago about selling the near-month straddle or near-the-money (1st or 2nd) strangle on TLT each month, and letting it go to expiration (presumably you would take it off a day or two before). There was a positive expected return for this strategy...

I love your use of the term "civilians." People want to be told what to do, basically. And they don't want to plan for contingencies. It is just all the ills of our lazy, overly optimistic, somebody-else-will fix-it society, writ large. As for Greenspan speeches, you have reminded me...

You are doing very well for a noob-- thinking about these things correctly. I must respectfully disagree with the previous post. Keep reading McMillan; you will continue learning how to think about options.

Trying to determine what to do about moss on my roof. There is a lot, not a little. The roof is composition, pretty thick, rated as 40-yr. Pitch is fairly steep. When I replaced my roof about five years ago, I got several bids. All the roofers who bid told me that I should never use...

I hope he will not. Gates has moved on to much more important things, like trying to solve some of the world's biggest problems in terms of human suffering. He is much more useful to mankind doing his foundation work.

tenacity

I tell them that I cannot tell them what to do, since everyone's approach will be somewhat different, but that I can tell them what to read so that they can learn to be successful for themselves. However, they don't usually want to hear about my recommended books and web sites. And those few...

The above is well worth repeating. That said, everyone wants to believe in magic. They want to believe that there is someone out there who knows the future. And, many of them just want someone they can follow. They like to think that Big Daddy--whatever form that takes--is going to watch out...

Yes, trend could be thought of as correlation, or slope of a regression line. If the slope is nonzero, then you have a trend. But as for the last part of the OP's question, nobody can read the future.

Looks like you can even short gold now, too :)

When I graduated from college in 1982, I tried to get a job with my chemistry degree. My best offer was a job testing horse urine for drugs at a racetrack. The pay they offered me was so low, it was less than what I was already making as a cook at a hotel. So I just kept working at the hotel...

is the gubernator going to take minimum wage himself?

They need to get a new gig over there, or go back to software. I live in the area, and even the people who work for them laugh at them.

I would rather have any of these Mexicans or El Salvadorans mow my lawn and clean my gutters than get one of McDonald's snotty-ass dimwit employees to do it. They would probably do a shitty job, then fall off the ladder or mow over their foot and sue me. The illegals work hard and they do a...

Yes. I would not even have to baste her.

Anyone remember the 70's, and all the fear of Japan taking over the world, buying up everything in the US? This could be our only chance, for the 2nd and 3rd world to come in and bargain hunt. Otherwise we are staring into the abyss, as they say. The western world (and I include Japan...

Yes, yes, yes. The government has no idea how to create jobs. No government in the US has ever made headway with unemployment. Yet everyone forgets this, over and over again, as if it were the first recession we have ever had.

1. Join AAII for $29 per year and start attending your local chapter meetings. Their web site has a wealth of information for newbies. 2. Learn something about asset allocation...