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Found this article online, not a bad laymans introduction to the issue... http://www.gmilburn.ca/2008/05/11/a-cap-on-the-price-of-gasoline-is-a-bad-idea/

Also - the <b>really</b> interesting part about the approach is that you aren't limited to just cloning hedge funds. Imagine a real estate risk profile with perfect liquidity (as the quoted approach trades extremely liquid futures only). Even more interesting, imagine investigating the...

Not marketing fluff - if they're using the copula based approach described above which I believe they are. Effectively it creates dynamic risk profiles based on past returns which then are incrementally adjusted based on the fund's continuing performance. The point is not to match...

And how precisely does Harper's meaningless resolution have anything to do with a proposed referendum? This is being universally panned in Quebec, far from stirring up a firestorm... f-f, you may need to brush up on your Canadian politics.

High %? Not a chance in hell - the liberals wouldn't have any of it (Bush hating etc.), and the conservatives up here are real conservatives - independence and all that (witness Harper's Arctic sovereignty campaign). I'd put the % at roughly the number of US immigrants. No Canadian I know...

AAA, have you seen The Fog of War? Great documentary about the life of Robert MacNamara - one part deals with him returning to Vietnam years later and almost coming to blows with a Vietnamese leader when they argued over the causes and motivations of both parties involved. MacNamara initially...

Vietnam was not winnable. Oldtrader is completely right, you have to sink to the level of the "enemy", and the enemy in that case was defending thier homes and families and was willing to die a brutal and terrible death to prove this. America was fighting communism, they thought. The problem...

riskarb - Good answer overall, but jesus, a clenbuterol cycle for someone who just wants to get rid of love handles? I wouldn't touch clenbuterol with a 10-foot pole, and that's not even considering the fact that the damn stuff is effectively illegal anyways. original poster - You've...

Alright I'm piss poor at attaching files, shouldn't have hit preview apparently...

I was thinking of putting something ridiculously controversial in here to get people all fired up and critical, but I might not get the feedback I want... I'm hoping for less four letter words and more general feedback. Yes I realize my dataset is too small and it's (borderline?) curvefit...

Look, I don't quite get the vitrolic american division of everyone into left/right, liberal/conservative, etc. I suppose if I went to the US I would be called a liberal. But this is just idiocy. Simply because you can string words together well enough to make your dumbass actions somehow seem...

Does Tor support routing anything other than regular http traffic? Frankly even if it does (or IB's platform cooperates, etc), attempting to route IB through Tor is idiocy. Latency is huge, reliability is less, and you're connecting with a broker who has all your personal information anyways...

Alright this is ridiculous. Your options are: 1. Clean it yourself. 2. Pay a cleaning service employing illegal aliens. 3. Pay a cleaning service (more than option 2) not employing illegals. If you have the money and are honestly against encouraging the use of illegal alien labour, you...

Jaguar - Are you familiar with the design of a jet engine? If anything, this is more likely to disintegrate due to the huge amount of kinetic energy stored in the turbine. Remember that everything in aviation is designed with weight in mind... and that this tends to result in designs that...

If mathematics is the language of nature... what is this? Won't help for retracements, perhaps for psychology... http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2006/04/fib.html http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-fibbery.html

kj, I don't mean to come off as a prick, I'm just an engineering dork. Apologies if I rubbed you the wrong way in my attempt to figure out the correct way to calculate this. I'd say the easiest way to get an estimate of the energy released would be to simply assume that the kinetic energy...

Acceleration is _the_ rate of change of the velocity vector, not _a_ change. And going in a circle produces acceleration because of the fact that the velocity vector is constantly changing - it's magnitude is the only thing that remains the same. The whole concept of "no such this as centrifugal...

Pabst, I'd have to agree with you. My father ran a (nameless) international airport for a number of years, when I was a kid I got to hang out at a ton of airshows at the VIP booth. Needless to say this led to a huge interest in aviation - but I still think you need to get out more if you're read...

Yes, as both will happen. In order for the bar to bend, his body must be jerked up. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If the bionic man is applying a force sufficient to bend the beam, this means that an equal reaction force is pushing the bionic man upward. One cannot...

Yes he could. F=M*A In this case we need to generate sufficient force to bend a beam, which we can agree is large but finite. Mass of the bionic man is constant. Therefore in order to produce a large enough force, we must produce a large enough acceleration. Assuming the bionic motors...