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This just aimed at southall, not trying to get into the inane circular conversation. One thing to consider is that in many cases you're not actually replacing like with like. As I've brought up as a thought experiment in another thread, if I was to offer you a 1986 Camry that had been...

For the love of Pete, not this again! Deut... is right, no impact whatsoever on an ETN. Do a quick search and you'll find an extensive thread on this very subject no less than a week ago.

Sorry, missed the sarcasm. Thanks for the excel file, just used it in my analysis above.

I did some more detailed analysis and while I get your concept it seems highly unlikely here. On 6/28 it looks like she sold an Aug 19 1950/1900 put credit spread on SPX. On 6/28 the S&P500 had a low of 2006, so that was a spread starting roughly 50 points below spot roughly 45 days out. I know...

Since you asked, the implication is that if your technical analysis finds trading opportunities in truly random data then you're being fooled by randomness (great book btw) and if you think of yourself as a technical expert but can't tell actual from random data then again, you've been fooled by...

There are also reporting requirements when you acquire ownership or control a certain amount of the stock of a company, I want to say 5 percent, and options are included. So everyone would know what you were up to. In many companies that also triggers some kind of poison pill in the form of a...

What's with this "she's only a teacher" crap? It's very possible that, as SLE pointed out, there's something shady going on. That has nothing to do with the both nonsensical and highly insulting idea that any who was once a teacher lacks the intellectual capacity to put on option trades. Now if...

That's a very helpful and intelligent comment.

Can you expand on the highly stratified states comment? I don't have a lot of experience in India so I'm curious about PPPs limitations there. Thanks.

I think you're mischaracterizing their business plan, they're all about the idea that they have no access to your algo's unless you grant it to them. Clearly they technically could break this promise, as could any other system. If you're paranoid then no backtesting system is for you, you'll...

From the relatively incoherent original response it sounds like they want the account to have enough money in it to cover the entire ES contract if your option ends up in the money.

They could probably get you under market manipulation rules since you're making a trade that has no potential economic benefit (there's a technical phrase for that I don't remember at the moment), even though you're not actually trying to manipulate the market. Kind of like getting the gang...

I get off the bus once we start with the conspiracy theory "statistics".

Agreed, you're paying double commission to do the same thing as closing your position would accomplish.

From your response I gather you're not aware of what the PPP in PPP adjusted GDP means? And just to be clear, your timeline is "looking back 20 years from now", so that would be 45 years from the 1990's when Japan was first supposed to implode. Come on now, you're saying you need 45 years of...

You're hopelessly impervious to logic my friend. Good luck with life.

You may want to go back to what GDP per capita and PPP adjusted GDP are. Or you could just look at the current GDP Per Capita, PPP numbers for every country in the world at http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD You'll find that there's a rather direct correlation between the PPP...

Yes, most people don't claim a bank run when there isn't one, and you're the first person I've met who doesn't appear to understand the difference between bank stocks going down and a bank run. I actually operate in the real world, where responsible adults don't make wild unsubstantiated claims...

Let's be crystal clear. On July 11th you posted "We have reports from readers in Italy that ATM machines are being emptied. A run on banks is beginning in Italy." No such "run on banks" has occurred. Bank stocks dropping are in no way a "run on banks"! By the way, intelligent adults don't...

So what happened to your bank run in Italy fhl? Did it turn out the "reports from readers" on a conspiracy site maybe isn't the most reliable source of news in the world? Do you ever hold yourself accountable for this stuff?