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great post! funny how those in the electronic world always talked about corruption on the trading floors and how they were the solution! don't drop your soap buddy!

already in recession and we did win the war in iraq. being the police force in the middle of the sunni/shia power struggle for a disfunctional govenment has been too costly though.

nyt says that it would have flown under the radar except hsbc thought that the transfer of money from the governor to a shell company was odd so they reported ti to the feds.

"seems like there's more people are no longer willing to accept what has been perpetrated for the last 8 years in America is all based on demand changes" then people that don't accept supply and demand (namely chinese demand) are wrong. oil companies are price takers not price makers...

unless the cftc's commitment of traders report has changed in the past couple weeks there are a lot of specs in the market. i'd guess they are long since that is the way the market has moved. so an increse would probably hurt longs and cause a selloff. but you have to remember that when you...

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so here would be my question on this: lets say to minimize left tail risk you buy deep out of the money put only. you are only protecting against a meltdown or 9/11 type event. but instead of monthly you several months out so the premium that you pay gets you three or four months of coverage...

not sure if this has been posted before. "bennie and the feds" video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfVMtCq9Oc

i've also heard that the ice is pretty fast now. since they have moved to chicago they are going to compete. it is good to have the competition. give cme the world and the fees get even worse.

the only way cme gets er back is if there isn't enough volume on ice and russell had the foresight to stipulate a given volume in the contract. i'm guessing the guys at russell aren't stupid and stipulated some volume requirements in their contract. i've heard that a lot of the small cap...

well i've been sent scrambling after selling straddles for a few months. i'd try buying them if you want some fun but i'm hardly the expert. mostly fart around selling premium.

thought i'd throw out a stock that i've been selling covered calls on in my ira account. gafisa- GFA- homebuilder in brazil. IV pretty high so you get some decent $$ for playing. a decent amount of the activity is in the $30-35 range i'm gonna bail when my marches expire. i only drink from...

bernanke isn't perfect but it just seems like some want him to do the equivalent of repealing gravity. there is only so much you can do when you take over in the middle of a mess about to happen. i saw some guy on cnbc a couple weeks back saying the market is down and that proves we need...

thanks beltway like you i would also have liked for the fed to see this a little earlier. even under greenspan they just sort of sat there while loans were being made that were obviously more risky than they were marketed to be. spitzer said today "garbage in garbage out" but everyone sat...

actually credit concerns trump everything if you are talking systematic risk. if you have a couple major banks go under you create an argentina overnight. the lower dollar has allowed exports to make up for the housing loss in gdp (not total wealth) for four of the last five quarters. if we...

a couple years ago i was in a discussion on a forum about millionaires and how they got their money. after digging for a while i found the group that was quoted earlier in the money mag. article. then i found money mag archives that pretty much showed that the number of millionaires increases...

well i'm actually pretty sure that most of the econ prof's blogs that i read have actually heard of trichet and yet they don't think bernanke is doing a bad job.

someone posted earlier that the elections in cuba are pretty much like those of developed democracies now. that was funny! like fidel was ever ELECTED! cubans aren't even allowed on boats. if cuba wasn't an island it would be a vast expanse of abandoned land.

ron paul is an M.D. and not an econ PhD. you could probably find 50 econ PhD profs that have blogs and don't think Bernanke is doing that bad of a job.

"what the fuck that is not rich, that is the description of a fucking poor with a few million in the bank account " rich is a matter of perspective. most americans are rich by world standards. the UN's definition of poor is $1 per day of income. the living standard of many poor americans...