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    What is the name of this strategy?

    Selling IV before earnings: Buy 1 Nov 15 CALL Sell 1 Aug 15 CALL Buy 1 Nov 15 PUT Sell 1 Aug 15 PUT and then buying it back a few days after the stock has settled. With 15 being ATM.
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    Forget G20, its now G19 vs USA

    Only idiots consider the President meeting the heads of state of important allies and attending the G20 in Seoul a vacation. Idiots, i say.
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    Source of Ben Bernanke and the Fed: New Financial and Economic Model

    southamerica, I always appreciate your observations and articles. I don't however believe a comparison of the Zimbabwean dollar and the US dollar is particularly interesting for the following reason. Looking at Zimbabwe, the loss of faith in its currency (and economy) is linked to the massive...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    Just curious: Is anyone using PTF with FX crosses or have views on correlation trading ccy pairs against another?
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    Stop the occupation! Where is the outrage?

    The civilized western world should kick the Russian energy billionaires out - let them eat potato soup in Moscow and end of gourmet dining in the European capitals :) A fitting punishment for everyone involved - easier for us to get tables, the billionaires should start eating what they were...
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    CL spread behavior at expiration

    Barchart.com has OHLCV daily data on each separate contract going back 20-30 years (at least). Maybe they've got a free trial, if not it's about 10 bucks for a month of access. I actually did some Excel-work with WTI-data about a year ago, and used them for data.
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    Bush, in time, will be seen as a great Prez.

    Always a pleasure to see an idiot waste time writing long delusional forum posts. GWB is USA's all-time low for president through history.
  8. J

    What's Your Trading Results For 2007!!

    My c*ck grew 37% this year, mainly thanks to those PEN1S enlargement pills I bought online. Gotta love a free market.
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    Pairs Trading

    ...or simply spread out and trade 20 pairs at the same time, instead of that single one. Now the risk suddenly have dropped somewhat...
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    If you feel like saying Thank You :)

    Thanks to Baron for running the site - much appreciated.
  11. J

    Eurex to Cut Fees

    Sooo... does this mean that their platform will become more stable during numbers just by the wave of their magic wand? How is trading on the Eurex these days?
  12. J

    Calendar spread that turned sour

    I'm currently going over a lot of historic calendar spread charts for crude. Anyone know what happened when the Nov 05 was about to expire and the CLZ05-CLX05 spread turned so sour? I don't know, maybe the short interest was too big when everybode wanted to roll over, and the...
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    What does "size" mean to you?

    I'd think size is relative to average volume in the instrument you're trading. If your orders move the market "a lot" (whatever that may be) then you're definitely trading size. I'm currently working positions in a small drug company, with an average daily volume of about 70,000 USD. Recently...
  14. J

    Republican Party, RIP?

    AAA what you're writing makes sense.
  15. J

    McCain running for president?

    Sure hope the GOP can return to what they once were. Kick out the morons you've harboured for six years.
  16. J

    Kerry Insults Troops.

    Any idiot understands that Kerry was talking about Dubbaya. He's the one stuck in Iraq.
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    I should be supporting Allen. Instead, I'm leaving the party.

    I think you're right, but you need to change the political system from a two-party system. The biggest problem with the Democrats is that together with the Republican Party they know the power will go back and forth between the parties over time and as such has absolutely nothing to gain to make...
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    would an independent court convict georg walker bush

    OK, then it makes some sense. I think going into Iraq with a different strategy and for different reasons could have happened, and it could also have gotten a wider coalition. If the reasoning would have been: Saddam is a dictator, murdering his own people, he should be brought to justice...
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