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  1. OEX weekly options

    Have you looked at the weekly SP500 options (available at IB by selecting EW-week number)? The 2 week aways (Aug. 13 or EW2) earlier in the...
    Post by: vanv0029, Aug 5, 2010 in forum: Options

  2. Schonfeld Traders R.I.P.

    The real innovation of modern societies if lobbyists who are so efficient at persuading law makers that exchange created front running and...
    Post by: vanv0029, Jul 6, 2010 in forum: Prop Firms

  3. Favorite Trading Blog site?

    Its a hard world for quants too. I think the Elite Trader site is working because you people are looking for better information. I think...
    Post by: vanv0029, Mar 3, 2010 in forum: Trading

  4. Need the most volatile stock out there

    Obviously IOC although up or down both are possible. Anybody have a guess of how the risk of being eaten by PNG cannibals effects volatilty?
    Post by: vanv0029, Feb 25, 2010 in forum: Stocks

  5. Ratigan nails how "dark pools" rip off traders: Dark pool trading = 10% of volume

    The Nazi takeover of Austria in the mid 1930s was actually financed by a situation similar to the current AIG and large investment banks (or...
    Post by: vanv0029, Oct 29, 2009 in forum: Wall St. News

  6. Can short ITM calls work for shorting NAT

    Thanks for the comments. I just looked at my IB account and it shows that my current position is 20% short stock and 80% short options. So I...
    Post by: vanv0029, Aug 9, 2009 in forum: Stocks

  7. Can short ITM calls work for shorting NAT

    NAT (Nordic American Tankers) reduced it dividend to 0.50 per quarter on a 30 USD stock. It did only lose 6 cents versus consensus 9 cents, but...
    Thread by: vanv0029, Aug 8, 2009, 3 replies, in forum: Stocks

  8. Statistical edge with option spreads -none?

    I have been working on a philosophical argument that I think shows that any option strategy that does not involve predicting market direction...
    Post by: vanv0029, May 14, 2009 in forum: Options

  9. Ken Thompson wrote Unix in a month

    This thread is full of mistakes. Unix was written in an early version of C from the start. The original primitive C compiler was already...
    Post by: vanv0029, May 8, 2009 in forum: Trading Software

  10. Ken Thompson wrote Unix in a month

    The one week claim is false. The Computing group at Bell Labs had been working on solving the OS problem including spending millions of man...
    Post by: vanv0029, May 7, 2009 in forum: Trading Software

  11. Any option sellers, here on Elitetrader?

    You should buy Cottle's online book at www.riskdoctor.com and read the sections on gamma scalping and adjustments to delta neutral. Also read...
    Post by: vanv0029, Jul 15, 2008 in forum: Options

  12. Anybody in on the dry bulk shipping action? (DRYS)

    It seems that ET posters do not have enough brain cells to do fundamental analysis, but seemingly you people have enough brain cells to still...
    Post by: vanv0029, Jun 25, 2008 in forum: Stocks

  13. Problem Booting Up IB TWS 884.6

    I am not sure if my problem is related, but I am having a similar boot problem with tws. It may not be the same problem. I am posting this...
    Post by: vanv0029, May 28, 2008 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  14. ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    I think a much better way to profit from options is to sell short out of the money ES options about a month out from expiration (usually...
    Post by: vanv0029, May 16, 2008 in forum: Journals

  15. First time writing covered calls

    The calls are not deep in the money and there are complexities involving possible loss of dividends, but look at selling Ship Finance (SFL)...
    Post by: vanv0029, Feb 12, 2008 in forum: Options

  16. Jim Rogers is short US I-bank, housing

    This time I think Rogers is right both in direction and timing. My largest shorts are XLF and 2x short XLF long ETF SKF. I stupidly exited...
    Post by: vanv0029, Oct 31, 2007 in forum: Wall St. News

  17. ES Journal Archive (2006 - 2008)

    Aren't you taking a big risk. I don't trade options and I don't have access to modeling software, but what if ES fell 70 points (about 5%)....
    Post by: vanv0029, Aug 13, 2007 in forum: Journals

  18. NFI the worse subprime mortgage posts 5.84 EPS LOSS!

    Here is my Midwestern view of Novastar. I think NFI management is quite smart. Although, they are having problems with margin calls and write...
    Post by: vanv0029, Aug 10, 2007 in forum: Stocks

  19. Trading jobs in London expected to fall 90% because of algorithmic trading

    I think the reason for the IBM white paper is that there is huge skepticism of "algorithmics" (AI) in England going back to the Lighthill...
    Post by: vanv0029, Oct 9, 2006 in forum: Professional Trading

  20. Riskarb's combo to fly conversion journal

    Thanks for the replies, but I what I am trying to do is improve entry after doing fundamental research. When I purchase a stock, I am hoping to...
    Post by: vanv0029, Mar 11, 2006 in forum: Journals
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