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Come on, dude, this guy is a paid troll. Most probably he's Russian and actually gets paid for this bullshit. Think about it - freshly registered, first post in a politically charged topic, usage of rubber stamps like "treacherous propaganda" and "mass psychosis". I am willing to bet he's not...

Not to sound distrustful, but where in Sweden do you live? är du verkligen en svensk och inte en rysk troll?

Yeah, I was talking about the US (that's where trucking is the key cargo transport). I recall reading somewhere that efficiency of transportation in Europe is higher due to prevalence of railroad cargo for long-haul. So I'd expect them to transition to automated trucks much slower anyway.

It's a tricky subject - risk/reward is different from the expected value since it includes risk-takers own unique utility curve. For example, imagine that you can steal a billion but if you get caught you will go to jail for life. Is it a good risk/reward? Well, it depends on your own personal...

Sorry, what? Where did I infer that? Where did I even say ANYTHING about Sweds preferences? I just merely pointed out that you, among others, say hearsay stuff and pretend that it is economic argument. Also, you moved the point of discussion from immigration to Muslims, which is not the same thing.

The subject of the thread is "Most Swedes recognize that immigration blah blah". Maybe you can't read well, seems to be a common problem on ET. The attached article does nothing to prove or disprove the point, it's a typical piece of political bullshit. I don't have a stake in the argument, I...

I drive upstate every weekend and most 18-wheelers have advertisements "drivers wanted, X per mile" where X is between 35 and 50 cents. According to google, a semi gets anywhere from 4 to 7 MPG, at 2.5 dollars per gallon. So the cost of drivers is more or less the same as the cost of fuel.

The subject is "immigration is good for economic growth". What fraction of Swedens immigrat population is recent refugees? What fraction is Muslim? What fraction is unemployed? For fuck sake, this is an "economics" section. It's a quantitative field, so try to make logical, quantitative arguments.

Let's say you see a blob of open interest - it has to be an option where gamma is a meaningful fraction of ADV. Also, you need to know which side will be a delta hedger. If you have both bits of information, you can assume statistical preference for mean reversion (in case of delta hedger being...

Really? What do you know about immigrat population in Sweden (hint - it's not majority Muslim). Do you even know any Swedes personally? Could you even find Sweden on a map?

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/velvet-jones-school-of-technology/n8852?snl=1

Stay! Sit! Play Dead! :P

Does not mean that preference actually works out. Japan has been trying to jump-start inflation for years without much luck.

First of all, most of the juice in the worst-of revcon comes from the worst-of component, so a single asset down-and-in put will not be equivalent. Second of all, variation margin on an OTC product like this would be rather high, so you are not saving that much cash. Third of all, given how...

- Not true. Why do you think the yield curve is upward sloping? That's your risk premium. If you want riskless, you better keep your money in cash consistent with your pricing basis. True to both. If you are a typical conspiracy theorist, you could/should say the same about inflation-adjusted...

Lonnie Watley: “What’s the difference between ass lube and regular lube?” Chuck Rhoades (after a pause): “Viscosity.”

Nothing but the good things to say about the show. The acting is great, Giamatti is totally awesome. The fact that the show has no positive characters (except for maybe Wendy) makes it especially fun. PS Obviously, the actual professional aspects (i.e. finance) are misrepresented but that's...

Out of curiosity, how much of the futures drop were you able to explain?

Well, a reasonable approximation that will include the skew but not the term structure is to price a tight call or put spread and multiply it by two

Well, you can do what index arb people do - reconstruct it from the first principles (you can get the current weights, the dividend dates and roll from there). You would not be able to explain a lot of the differential anyway, since funding+rebate on a lot of the stocks is on the same order of...