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Thank you xandman and MRBRETTONWOODS, will have a look at them.

Hi, I am looking for an API solution that can do the following 2 things: 1) Retrieve snapshot of options quotes, potentially all of US equity options. 2) After 1) I would need streaming quotes for much smaller subset. Eventually orders would be triggered, also via API. Does anybody know...

Man, you really hate that dude. :eek: Ali slazem se stobom. Pozdrav!

LOL! :D Reminds me of Richard Gere and his "Razzle Dazzle" song from Chicago movie.

In times of deflation, zero coupon bonds are superior than regular coupon paying bonds. Typically the gains are 50% higher. The reason is because they are more leveraged to interest rate changes. In inflationary times, there are not that hot.:)

But they are providing two benefits: -all traders provide liquidity -successful traders make the market efficient. The unsuccessful traders on the other hand, provides unnecessary volatility.

WTF? After 12:00, practically no volume.

Of course, tar sands has smaller cost: ~20$, but the key question is the production capacity. The article claims this is a clean process but I admit, details are lacking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/national/21coal.html?ei=5090&en=b4e81d9fa7275f2c&ex=1290229200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all $7 billion investment can build a plant that produces 150,000 barrels per day of gasoline or diesel fuel from coal at a cost of $35 per equivalent...

log normal means when you do log transformation on a given data, the resulting data is normal. So instead of sigma( x_i - x_avg ) you'll have sigma(log(x_i) - log(x_avg)) = sigma(log(x_i/x_avg))

Read for yourself: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6&section=0&article=74723&d=15&m=12&y=2005

Yes, but in the carry cost should be only the storage expense. If you roll over your contract for the next month, it just means you are postponing your actual buying for additional month. Surelly this can't be 1.7% (1 $ against current price of 60$)

Does anybody know how much physical cost of carry should be for oil? For the most of this year, oil futures were in heavy contango. I mean, surely the cost of carry is not over a dollar? That would mean 20% annual cost!:eek:

Actually, I wrote an example several days ago.: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=910567#post910567

Although I am bullish short term, I am somewhat bearish for the next few years. Inverted/Flat yield curve is almost always bad sign. BTW, you do realize that you can structure that kind of deal yourself? Just combine call options + zero coupon bonds. It may save you some cent on their fees.:)

Here is an overview: http://www.netcastdaily.com/broadcast/fsn2005-1105-2.asx text: http://www.financialsense.com/transcriptions/Williams.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/national/21coal.html?ei=5090&en=b4e81d9fa7275f2c&ex=1290229200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all ...about $35 a barrel...

What would really be important if you can calculate long term average price of alternative energy. If you can obtain this number is irrelevant if there is peak oil or not. The demand of oil over this price will be by definition close to zero…

I am not agreeing with everything Raymond J. Learsy says about OPEC, but it’s interesting. Somehow over the decades they always claim they have very thin leeway whether they are producing 20 or 30 Mbpd…… http://www.netcastdaily.com/broadcast/fsn2005-1112-2.asx

When was the last time their long term projections turned to be accurate? I mean we had government projections less then 10 years ago projecting long term price of 10$ or less for oil. I would like to know what was their projection in the early 1980s, probably very high. Now they are saying NG...