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The idea of using a wash trade to free up buying power in a brokerage account. Martin

Thanks! So much for that idea. Martin

Bagging on the CFO is weak. The guy's just doing his job. First, nobody here can question his facts. It is his job to know the state of Google's finances better than anyone else in the world. Even if he's doing a terrible job he knows a hell of a lot more than any of us. Second, nobody...

Say I want to use a wash trade to move a position from one account to another. I'll sell in one brokerage account and buy in the other at the same time. I'm not worried about tax consequences, just legality. Am I asking for trouble? I know using wash trades to "paint the tape" is illegal...

<i>All you need todo is look at herbs financial records. Thats financial accounting 101. </i> Oh, ok. And because there wasn't a line item marked, "Illicit bribe from hedge fund manager, funneled through offshore trust, $10M" or "Fur coat for Herb's wife, gift from hedge fund manager, $20K"...

No, obviously I claimed nothing of the sort. CEFs aren't optionable. If it's just common sense why does he need to be tipped off by hedge fund managers? Your faith is endearing. I don't know that he's on the take. I only have circumstantial evidence. However, it's pretty clear to me that...

If that's all it takes to be a "straight arrow," shit, I'm getting into the journalism business. You think the only way to profit from writing a story is to buy or sell the stock yourself? You'd have to be an idiot. There's no way you're going to fly under the radar with a scam like that, at...

Greenberg is as crooked as they come. He doesn't even try to hide it. Just watch David Tepper use Greenberg's column as part of his closed end fund arbitrage strategy. Whenever Tepper has an arbitrage spread widening, Greenberg talks it down. It's like clockwork. Nothing the SEC could prove, but...

Abqaiq is enormous and it's more than just a transfer point. They do water separation and treatment, gas recovery, hydrotreating, desulfurization, pumping, storage, etc. A very large bomb could certainly disrupt operations there but it wouldn't shut in a significant amount of Saudi production...

<i>Can't they make these wind turbines a little better looking?</i> What's wrong with them? I've seen ugly wind turbines (Altamont Pass, CA). The new 1MW+ turbines on unguyed towers are graceful, quiet, basically harmless. Certainly you don't want to live so close to one that you are shadowed...

Tell that to the Danes, who get 20% of their electricity from wind, most of it offshore. Wind is economically competitive, more so than solar, probably more so than nuclear if you include waste disposal and regulatory costs. I'm all for nuclear power, but you've got to admit, wind power also...

This has been discussed before: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56436 Pabst's post is all you need to know: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?postid=858093#post858093 Martin

Nice work!! I knew there was a word something like "friable." I think I got there by searching for "frisable." Martin

No, processes. You can't use an HDF5 file from more than one process the way you can with a database server. There are no locking primitives. The "C" in "ACID". I had to restore an obliterated HDF5 file more than once during my Pytables testing. I was using a recent version at the time. It...

Here are some comments I made in another thread concerning HDF5 format and storage of time series data in SQL databases. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=870501#post870501 Martin

The race to the bottom really doesn't have a finish line, does it? Well, I'm done, anyway. Martin

I agree, it's sad. And truth be told, all posturing and bullshit aside, they're people I've always respected too, and still do. I mean, seriously, anyone with the good taste to use Python as language of choice is all right. :) But I went back and looked at the thread last night because I was...

Good try. You're a faker. I spent 12 years designing software in Silicon Valley and no real software engineers use that term. Only IT guys talk that way. Are you an IT guy by any chance? Martin

Incidentally you've said "technology neutral" a bunch of times but I don't think that means what you think it does. "Technology neutral" is pretty much just a buzzword when it comes to software. Can you explain your point using different words with commonly accepted meanings? Let me know if I...

Well, I would disagree but... ...you seem to have posted your comment in the wrong place. Martin