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Many funds and accounts from pros and others, who should have known better, get wiped out by index puts. And when done with "sane" leverage, returns would barely (maybe) beat B/H. There are better methods, but they require an edge in stock picking, volatility, direction, etc. No free lunch...

Nutmeg in the news... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080220/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_art;_ylt=ApcX7AtHqNQR9FUo02zGk2ChOrgF I could do that, but my brush is too big!

Bummer. Guess lots of other people just walked around and never bought any of that crap either? But now where am I going to kill a 1/2 hr when I get dragged to the mall by females? I know - I can volunteer to be a changing room attendant at Victoria Secret! :D

http://www.mcdonalds.com/usa/rest_locator.html

Ugh. Yer right, not even close. Not that I wouldn't bang her. I got low standards...

he does have a nice smile... :p

I went out with your girl friend and she wasn't that bad...

Get a real broker. Yeah, you only get 4X day margin (or portfolio acnt > $100K) at IB, but those funky little brokers are an accident waiting to happen... http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/34-44413.htm http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/main.php

We hear ya Longhorns, but looks to me like, unless these are violated, there is unfortunately no reason for Baron or the mods to act (except some mods have a strange "standard of behavior" they follow). This means to me that most repetitive, boring, or just plain juvenile threads will...

If the question is "Which broker...", the answer almost always is :http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=tws&ib_entity=llc You can do a lot of spread stuff with TWS. See if it will do what you need. Regards.

Very useful site: http://www.ivolatility.com/

Sounds alot like good ole Bluestreek. That guy was best fade trade in the history of ET. Maybe even the World! :p

Kids Hear the Darndest Things A father, who worked away from home all week, always made a special effort with his family on the weekends. Every Sunday morning he would take his 7-year old daughter out for a drive in the car for some bonding time. One particular Sunday, however, he had a...

I hope Aaron will have time to come by here and tell us exactly what went wrong. I'm sure there is a lesson there for all traders. Unless there are legal reasons why he can't comment, I bet he stops by and lays this to rest. He seems like a standup guy. :cool:

Okay, time for some World's Thinnest Books 1. "Elements of Risk Managment", Victor Niederhoffer 2. "Winning Trading Techniques", Marketsurfer 3. "Life Manual of Sanity and Calmness", nutmeg 4. "New Diet Recipes", Don Bright 5. "My Collection of Clean Jokes", flytiger

Don't get it either. The last few years, AS published articles and news about lowering risk. Then he gets hammered by selling puts? Seems like selling index puts (and I used to do plenty of 'em) without much leverage is the key to sub-standard returns. And with leverage it's the key to...

Thanks Jay.

A reasonable request, except that "...Although he never initiated conversation about his fund, he did take the time to discuss it after others started threads. If he didn't want to talk about it, he should have just said that before..."

AS seems like a good guy, and there certainly is no reason to bash, but he should come here and talk about his performance. Why should he bother? Although he never initiated conversation about his fund, he did take the time to discuss it after others started threads. If he didn't want to...