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go get a financial engineering degree. have you tried e-financial careers website? how about the fed?

the PBS LTCM documantary is called "Trillion Dollar Bet". It is on Youtube

the ice has the big r2k and the mini's trading electronically. will this force the cme to give electronic access to the big contracts during the day and allow us to cut commissions by 1/5th if it is succesfull on the ice? talk about the final nail in the trading floor coffin...

you can also apply for work at the exchange itself. a lot of the exchanges will pay for your education as well. at least some of it. make sure you look into employment with the exchange itself as well. call the exchange and ask where you can get a list of the members. get resumes to the...

some exchanges have paid for exclusive trading rights for certain products. this is likely to end as the exclusive contracts expire.

yield goes up when demand for money (loans) is increasing. this happens in a growing economy. as the economy slows demand for moey decreases and rates go down. another factor in rates is expected inflation. this sometimes follows the same cycle. but, to your point, it certainly does...

the fed just cut last week. if they thought crude prices warranted a rate hike they would probably telegraph it via speeches and do it at an fomc meeting.

First of all, my point is that we can topple any government in the world. That we can't police the entire world at once is pretty obvious if you simply look at the numbers. So you are arguing something that I said in my post. The entire world should welcome the day that the emerging countries...

Hey dim wit, quit pretending that you have any capacity for real economic analysis or that you know anything about the future of the USA. All of your debt talk is crap. What matters is debt to gdp ratio. Ours is not a problem. Your cities in Brazil aren't safe. They are crime riddled. Most...

thanks!

atticus is right. ask 'em to delete the thread. start over. ignore critisism. stick to a plan. at least it wasn't your money, right? live and learn.

o.k.- thanks. i'm going back to my finance class in the late 80's and trying to remember the options theory a little. so if the etf is going to go ex div in jun then it will be factored into the jun puts and calls. if the div will be 70 cents then that will be factored into the at the...

vhehn- understand your point but yield is double the S&P and option IV is high so i'm willing to take a little more risk.

recently a poster commented that is is more efficient to sell puts than it is to write covered calls. i'm interested in some input on this idea given the following situation: I own an small apartment building may sell it and use real estate securities to earn income (hopefully more...

will the eu be sending participants to the olympics? or will the individual countries be sending members to the olympics? are they going to play a single team soccer match in the european cup this summer? or will there be two teams on the field for multiple matches? the european union is not...

earnings ultimately determine the value of a stock and the market overall. the earnings aren't down as much as everyone thought they would be several months ago. the weak dollar is actually helping companies that export. i did hear one person on cnbc say that earnings of energy companies will...

why would you construe my comments about the ability to repay the debt as being happy that it exists? and who are you to judge who is too happy about anything? i just don't believe that the sky is falling. the data doesn't show that the sky is falling either. the war is not going to bankrupt...

jeff i'm short the s&p 1350 straddles. tell your system to generate a put buy signal and no more call buys until expiration!

that's interesting. never thought about it. do you have any examples? i'm guessing that you are playing purely for capital gain on the bonds if you are going to use the interest for buying puts.

most companies have debt as well. they continue to function. most people have mortgages. they continue to function. the goverment has not defaulted on any bonds or t-bills. our debt to gdp ratio is not at an historically alarming level. down the line we do face challenges with medicare...