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I am playing around with buy and sell signals, and buying and shorting the S&P500. I wanted to go back before 1993 when SPY was first created, so I was simulating buying and selling the SPX (^GSPC on Yahoo). I would take a certain amount of dollars and divide by the current SPX to get the number...

So you're saying to ignore the divvies? If I run the test with SPX data and simulate buying and shorting "shares" of SPX the short term results track SPY pretty closely, especially during periods between dividends. Over longer periods the results don't track very well.

I've been playing around with analyzing historical data on SPX and SPY. I downloaded the data from Yahoo for ^GSPC and SPY. Since ^GSPC doesn't pay dividends and SPY does the results diverge quite a bit over 10 or 15 years. (BTW, I've searched this site and Googled around, but still haven't...

Banks do print money. It's called "making a loan". Bernanke is even proposing taking the "reserve" part out of fractional reserve banking, allowing banks unlimited power to print as much as they want.

Your broker may have meant that if you exercise an option there is no charge, but you still have to pay the commission to buy or sell the stock. And the correct terminology is, if you are long an option you exercise it, if you are short you are assigned. Here is what thinkorswim has on the...

How do you like VectorVest? Edit: Forgot to say, the OP might also want to check into GNMAs. I ALMOST bought a GNMA fund in 2008 when IIRC the yield was around 5% (I think it was Vanguard). I haven't checked the yield lately. GNMAs are explicitly backed by the government so they should be as...

Thank you for proving my point.

Liberal is the new communist. The shallow people call anything they don't like liberal.

Is 40% Per Month Shorting Index Puts a Fair Return? http://www.cxoadvisory.com/equity-options/is-40-per-month-shorting-index-puts-a-fair-return/

The more you print the more SS costs.

The difference is that Grayson's plan is to be paid for by the users, not taxes. BTW, how is private insurance not a form of socialized medicine that "conservatives" are so vocal about? You pay your premium, but if you have a major problem it it "other people's money" that pays for your...

I believe that is part of Denninger's "4 Point Plan". Too bad he didn't put a link in the article - he usually does. BTW, the insurance companies hate competition, that's why they are behind the government's legislation to restrict it.

A Democrat Congressman from Florida just introduced a Public Option. Funny, it's not getting much air play on either side. http://market-ticker.org/archives/2075-Alan-Grayson-Tossed-Out-A-Hardball.html Posted by Karl Denninger in Health Reform at 14:20 Alan Grayson Tossed Out A...

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But February retail sales were up from January*. * After January was revised down.

Only one or two problems with it. California sends more $$$ to Washington than it gets back, so they are currently subsidizing the other states. And there are no fiscally strong states at this point, just ones who are weaker than others (except maybe North Dakota or ???).

Knowing how the math geniuses work in Congress it will become: 1 How Much Did You Make? 2. Add 20%. 3. Send It In.

100% taxation and everyone works for the government.

If you do decide to become a landlord, NEVER rent to someone you know. My sister bought a couple of houses to rent a few years ago. Her boyfriend talked her into letting his daughter (and her boyfriend) rent one of them. She almost never paid the rent, got pregnant while there and the boyfriend...

Anyone know of any REITs out there who buy property outright and just collect/pass on the rents?