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For you walking types, you can get a lot more bang for your buck by walking only on hills. The very best thing is if you can park your vehicle near, or if you live near, the top of some big hills. You can get someone to drive you to the bottom of the hill, then walk up it, or, take a bus to...

Madoff's response is absolutely pathognomonic for narcissistic personality disorder. They should make him a textbook example.

I just ran across TAO. Is that what you are looking for? It looks like it trades around 50K shares a day, so you should not have much trouble shorting it. And glancing at the chart, your timing looks pretty good. If you are patient, it could be a good short. Good luck.

Have any of the posters here considered that the OP's question may contain more than meets the eye? Perhaps the question is not well-worded or specific enough, but it implies something that is very true: there is lots more to know and understand about options than just what puts and calls are...

Are the tobacco lawsuits any guide here? MO was not destroyed--far from it.

There are all kinds of charlatans and liars out there. Why don't you spring for a book by someone who commands some respect? http://www.amazon.com/Rookies-Guide-Options-Beginners-Handbook/dp/193435404X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275617487&sr=1-1...

Expert and Others, I hope I may be allowed to respectfully disagree. My education taught me a great deal about trading--but not in the traditional way. In the process of obtaining a college degree and later two graduate degrees, all in different decades of my life, I have noticed the...

an iplug, why not

RWX has little Chinese exposure, but has large Hong Kong and Australian holdings: https://www.spdrs.com/product/fund.seam?ticker=RWX Disclosure--I have been shorting it for a couple of weeks and have not made anything yet.

Yes, your implication is correct: "worked" is a misnomer. In any case, it worked well enough for us to make some money, huh?

I don't understand why he keeps saying the stress test worked. It was the abandonment of mark-to-market that worked.

I do not mess with the 2x and 3x ETFs, but I have had minimal trouble shorting other ETFs. I have shorted stuff trading <100,000/day without much difficulty. Once in a while I get a notice from IB that they may have to buy me in, but so far they have not ever done it.

OP seems to have disappeared from this thread and gone back to playing the piano. Hope he is okay.

I would find this a frightening atmosphere in which to trade condors. When things get rough like this, you might want to consider going out a few months (2 to 4 months) and adjust the long and short legs outward accordingly. Or even stand aside. To me, selecting a day to put on a vega...

Thank you. I agree--I expect the 99 will go up :) So I had better eat all my veggies and exercise....

If May 6 did not cure people of the idea of stop losses, I don't know what will. When you put your money in the market, you are dealing with crooks. Good thing to try to remember.

I think this is accurate. I saw a lengthy interview in the NY Times with Kim Jong Il about six years ago. He was really quite practical. He said something along the lines of, "Of course, I know that the US would destroy me in short order if I ever really tried anything significant. But I...

Grinder, if you want to, try contacting them one more time. I have usually found them pretty responsive.

Enhancing Index Strategies by Tristan Yates I am finding it interesting reading. Would love to hear what others think.

Not really sure where to post this. In the US, the government sends us a social security estimate each year. It contains sentences like this one: "If you continue working until you are 99, you will receive $102 per month in benefits." Does this mean I will receive $102 when I am 99...