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It's no big deal to buy Petrobras in Madrid for example, but as far as I understand, that implies the same currency risk as in ADRs. For a simple buy and hold, I'd like to have a way to hedge this other than a full globex future.

This is the quickest, easiest way to make money since "Big George" took on the Bank of England. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124951839472809583.html A desperate madman has opened the floodgates on the printing press. What does that tell us? Ok, it won't be tradeable with most retail...

This goes a little off hand. Maybe you are experts on this Ron Hubbard sqabble. I'm not. It's easy to steal names and damage them. I'm not referring to 3rd class brain whacked failed Sci Fi writers. I talk about John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela...

Can anybody tell me where to find a benchmark bond future for Korea and it's ticker (IB or eSignal would be perfect)? If there's a real crack out there, the thai equivalent would be cool too, only I doubt eSignal would have it. Don't want to trade it, just monitor...

What a very funny joke. I'm inclined to laugh.

I see a lot of superficial discussion in this thread about stuff that involves the concepts of "consciousness" and "reality". It seems to me, there is no pervasive knowledge as to which science deals with those two concepts. It is called cybernetics. Understanding the basics indeed...

Seems that riskarb got banned for offensive behaviour. I think a number of options students will be sad to hear that.

What is 'the crowd' ? What one is looking for obviously are undercapitalised, overstretched participants acting collectively on stale information. Basically, that's the way the level III crowd is looking at the market, and they have the tools to act on it. The problem is that lacking a...

Is there any way to follow odd-lot put/call ratio in real time? Or daily at least? Comments would be appreciated.

I respect you a lot, nevertheless that is simplified, sorry. It is one dynamic system and it is subject to the laws of thermodynamics. If participants rationally can expect gains (monetary or external) they behave accordingly. In practical terms: their perceived hurry will lead them to trade...

:D :D :D :D :D Wikipedia: zero sum game Zero-sum describes a situation in which a participant's gain or loss is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the other participant(s). It is NOT a zero sum game, if not all participants are interested in the same class of gains. A...

Differentiating between "self" and "non-self" properties of price behaviour... In a changing environment that would presuppose defining a rate of change and an algorithm exactly measuring how "self" is morphing to "non-self" and viceversa. Given the fact, that the rate of change of the...

Hello Grob/ Jack, just ordered the book you mentioned. Is Larry Harris identical with Lawrence Harris, who wrote the "Winners and the Losers of the zero-sum game"? Well, I'll see. I actually was about to ask about internal market structures, since I'm just beginning to investigate US...

I wonder how you would handle the risks implied. If you don't really trust your programs you're vulnerable to someone triggering your risk management. If you do trust them, well, what was the account size you wanted to manage?

Since a lot of people are trading indices and a lot of people seem to agree that there are very few reliable indicators, except for a handful of market internals, it would be great to get them from IB directly. TICK-NYSE and TRIN-NYSE already work. VOL-NYSE doesn't work yet, still blank. What...

Even then. Preferrably you understand common strategies and risk management of the underlying as well. If buying books is an issue use eMule.

Something more personal: It really sucks, that somebody knowing even less than me (which is quite an achievement), is arguing with riskarb on options. I believe I'm not the only one trying to learn something here. When the few people here, who know at least a little bit, make well-meaning...

I'm relatively new to this site. All German sites I know are crap. There's a lot of bullshit on here too, but it's quite easy to dig. You only need to stumble upon the names: Praetorian, abogdan, grob109, dbphoenix... There are probably also jewels I haven't discovered yet. Would be...

I read that other thread. I like it a lot. I regard nitro very highly unless he starts to get cynical and I liked a lot of your posts. Can we agree that randomness rather is a quantitative than qualitative term? That it is only definable relative to a spectator? It may be an action...

Losses don't suck. One persons's losses are another persons wins. They are good. They provide movement as opposed to boring "efficient markets" in "equilibrium". If some economists were right, that would be a real nightmare, isn't it? So be grateful to God there are losses and everybody...