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The distribution of the poll results is interesting.

How does this work? If I come to the firm with 50k, I can only be exposed to 12.5k in options? What do you mean by "one to one"? No ratio spreads, etc?

On a Micro level, the stores around my city were CROWDED...hopefully this continues through Dec 24. How was your city??

Are you referring to Mandelbrot's book?

To further confuse: be aware of contango and backwardation! J/k, the only thing I can offer is that you do not pay interest on the 115k in your example. I won't tell you to go read a book because I assume you came on here for the quick and dirty answer.

:p You'll be surprised with the amount of surprises to come

Reference to standard deviation? Although it should be 68% within one SD either way...based on a Gaussion distribution

They are required to have capital at the Federal Reserve. The bank does make a return on reserves, by the way. http://www.federalreserve.gov/GeneralInfo/fract/sect05.htm

I agree...OX has neat stuff

Who has excess reserve? Only the Fed and the bank itself know that. My guess is the more conservative banks have reserves. Remember that the Fed consists of Member Banks...no foreigners...at least not in the legal sense (i.e. Deutsche, ABN, etc). Correct me if I'm wrong here: FFR is from...

Credit rating agencies gave AAA to toxic waste...They're unreliable

I tried to ask a more probing question and got virtually the same answer: ----------------------------------- Dear Mr. Matador04: Thank you for your recent correspondence and for your questions concerning "shareholders" of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve System is not "owned"...

Dear Mr. Matador04: Thank you for your recent correspondence and for your questions concerning ownership of stock in the Federal Reserve System. It is important to note that there is considerable misunderstanding about the Federal Reserve. Many people think that the Federal Reserve is...

I thought about that; it wasn't as choppy as last week...so I suppose that would make sense

With the S&P down that much, shouldn't one expect the VIX to spike a little more than 2.02%? Please enlighten me...

I agree that it's mostly political. Great post, btw.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071118/opec.html

Day trade options? deep ITM?

Bad news was the cause of one of my large losses in '04. I had sold a put (OTM) and in a week the stock tanked 20%...I ended up recovering as it was oversold.

So let's get together on Saturday at Rock Bottom...there's also El Torito across the street if RB is too busy. Does 12 pm work? There's always college football on. Any Takers?