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My point is that for rational thinking to prevail it's irrelevant if a Jesus dude did or didn't exist, it's kind of getting hung up on an irrelevant argument. But I'm with you, amazing coincidence the birth and death of this guy coinciding with the solstice and equinox so important to the pagan...

There's no reason to doubt that a guy named Jesus existed (although quite clearly with that name he was probably hispanic!). Maybe not a guy named Luke, more likely a group of guys. Probably around 2000 years ago. The hispanic guy was probably charismatic and may very well have had a small...

I'll second that on all fronts, also based from my time living in HI and a several trips to PR spent outside the resort strips. I also have investigated the concept from an entrepreneur standpoint, mostly because I'm looking for some Spanish immersion and if it would be fun to live there then...

It's probably worth you doing a bit of reading on the concept of risk adjusted return. You're essentially reinventing the wheel here. Spoiler alert - the idea that the risk to reward ratio is inextricably linked to your probability of success is a well thought-out concept with a vast body of...

The second half of your last statement is true, but those are the folks making $100,000 a year. The actual poor folks by and large have all been pushed to the East Bay.

Doh!

Tongue in cheek aside, your underlying thesis is a somewhat powerful idea that most people's brains aren't wired for. Of course in trading it's a bit tricky because often it's the transaction costs that cause the overall negative result and they're the same if you mirror the strategy. There are...

Just out of curiosity, where in the world can you still even purchase a connection that slow? To answer you question, it all depends on how "real time" time needs to be for you. If you're just getting quotes for 15 stocks, the actual FIX data coming over is relatively small and 128 kbs is...

Plenty of Boeing and Airbus parts that are only assembled in SC or AL, you could say the same about them and a hurricane. An earthquake is the least of Tesla's worries at this point, if the company is sound there are plenty of folks who will lend to cover the loss from a temporary event like...

Same thing it would do to any Northern California company. If you're running with that you better price in your "earthquake discount" into Google, Apple, Facebook..... And your "hurricane discount" into BMW, Mercedes, Airbus... and everyone else who makes shit in the SE. And your "tornado...

You definitely win the award for the obscure nugget part! I ran into something similar, the term apparently has a number of other defined meanings aside from this one so very difficult to do a search on. Thanks again.

Thanks, I had never even heard of this little piece of the tax code and I generally think of myself as pretty proficient at it. Little gems like this are the reason for coming here! You're right, especially with the explicit mention of straddles and the phrase "In other words, the return on your...

I think the leap in logic most of us have a problem with is "there is life after death......leap to....therefore you shouldn't eat shellfish, you should stone your son if he's disobedient, you can't remarry because that's adultery, you can't engage in lesbian sex.....because it says so in this...

Feeling too lazy to think this through at the moment, does this end up getting you 60/40 fed tax treatment on the "interest" regardless of holding time?

For sure. Common but no less terrifying for being so! If you're somewhat established and you're using the loans for something other than actually starting the company I can see how they wouldn't be as scary. For example if you're buying used trucks and know you could sell them for close to what...

SBA loans are pretty scary because they require a personal guarantee of the company owners. I would only take one on something where it was covering something pretty guaranteed, like the float on invoicing to very creditworthy customers. If you can get venture money it's far more suited to...

Every broker offers "vanilla" options, those are what we call plain old puts and calls. You're correct that now only Nadex offers forex binaries to U.S. customers. Binaries are generally called "exotics" vice "vanilla" for regular options. One of those lingo things that makes about as much sense...

How does this happen? You're a bookie you take the vig with pretty much risk. Sounds like they were prop trading, if so they deserve it for getting greedy. Although $2M is chump change.

I don't "know" and never claimed to "know" why this effect happened during the time period chosen. I simply pointed out that it made sense that holding during the time period when news gets dropped simply amplifies the direction the market went during the time period you chose. The same as...

Just to be clear, you stated " all net market gains have occurred after hours, on none, zero, zip have occured during market hours, over the past 25 years." What was the point of the "none, zero, zip" part of that sentence? It is good to see that you're now saying that "during a specific data...