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perhaps they changed your senility pills too?

the news is that he is posting again. not that gme rallied.

?? Roaring kitty posted this last night and gme is up 20percent right now.

Enron is very different than a clearing house that processes more volume than the NYSE. you may not know this but when congress passed the no shorting rule in 2008, the entire derivatives market collapsed. They quickly changed the rules because shutting down the equity derivatives market would...

Look at my math. If the tax arb doesn’t compensate you for this risk, then this product isn’t for you.

why? This is elitetrader. If you aren’t using technical analysis to trade your IB or FXCM account in your pajamas then you are a failure.

as Alan Jacobson has said the OCC Fund has only paid out once and it was only 8mm. So an event that takes down the OCC would be a catastrophic financial event that would take out most of the member firms. (I’m not even sure a nuclear event would do that). the deleveraging would be massive. All...

I bet Donald trump takes all the cash in his company and converts it to dollar bills and fills his coffin with it.

in your scenario, treasuries will collapse too. Not because of credit risk but because of massive deleveraging in the market and failures to deliver. in that scenario, I’m driving to des’s house because I don’t know anyone with more guns than him.

the 8,000,000 was because a counterparty failed and so the OCC had to fill the gap?

Charitable giving is a completely retarded tax strategy. You almost always have less money than if you didn’t give and just paid the taxes. you give because you want to and the government doesn’t punish the receiving institution.

if you have no tax benefit, there’s no reason to do the BOXX over treasuries. I think the credit risk is deminimis.

if you can “give more” than you spent on the giving. otherwise doing it to reduce taxes is like cutting off your foot to get a handicapped parking space.

my favorite quote is “infinite gamma”

Almost all "trading" activities undermine the original purpose of the stock market, which is to provide a venue for companies to raise capital. Buffet and Simons are/were geniuses. But the real lesson is that it takes a collaboration of many people to be insanely successful even if 1 person...

they can’t lower rents due to loan covenants. If they lower rents it’s like marking the property to a lower market and will trigger a loan to value default. this is what ultimately did Freddie Mac in.

this post makes no sense. take your medicine.

I’ve read that the strongest bitters are released when the water is at 212. That’s why you are supposed to let the boiling water cool slightly before pouring into a French press. I don’t know how to make a Turkish coffee but I have played around with cowboy coffee which is similar but a lot...

I pour it into a mug and heat it in the microwave. The cold brew part is just to pull the flavors and oils from the beans. you can actually do the same through heat, time (cold brew), motion (run the beans and water through a blender). The last one is weird tasting and weird color.

I have MarkBrown on ignore yes. that is the tradeoff and deferral until you want it.