This is mostly an artifact of the different capital structures for home ownership vs. company equity share ownership. Moreover, if you look at...
Nice chart! You might get some interesting insights if you do the following. 1. Find the median return on the SPY. 2. Pull the data for all...
You are correct. If the goal is to go from long to neutral. But if you want to swing all the way from long to short, then using one big short...
Yes, if you are flipping between being net long and net short then this would be a good way to go -- I.e., if you hold 1000 RIMM long for the...
Exactly! It has no legal tax benefits. You can't even short the stock in another account under US tax law without triggering a so-called...
Credit boosting is a dangerous scam and should be outlawed. It does not improve either the ability or the likelihood of the 600-score person...
That Matrox solution is nice for adding 2 or 3 small monitors to a laptop, but it won't support multiple large monitors (e.g., 2 or more 30"...
Exactly. And when lenders get repaid in inflated currency, they have that much less to lend in the future which is not good for an economy based...
Exactly! And the situation is worse than it seems because the "lost" consumer demand will never return because it was created by people suck...
If capital preservation is the #1 priority, then CDs are a good alternative. But why only a 6mo term? Does she really plan to spend the entire...
Although you can't produce accurate risk models with statistics based on the normal distribution, you can if you use other distributions (e.g....
I wonder if this is really true outside the tech-obsessed power-user community. The bigger challenge, for both Intel and AMD, is the steady...
Sure. Its http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/regnms/companalysis121504.pdf The document is a bit dense at times, but has some really interesting...
Those are very big trades that will face significant slippage regardless of broker. The data I've seen (from 2004) suggests that a 5k to 10k...
This is exactly why some people say that economics is rubbish. What happened to LTCM was NOT a 1-in-100,000,000 fluke. These types of events...
Interesting graphs. Some ideas include: 1) stack the graphs so that the price ranges line up on all of them. That makes it more obvious if...
That's not good is it! Bernanke needs to cultivate Greenspan's emotionless academic monotone that puts people to sleep before they can all hit...
I'd argue that doublespeak is the best policy for a Fed Chairman (or other major economic policy official). Ambiguous statements let both the...
"Slowing growth" is bullish if: 1) everyone expected no growth at all. 2) people feared that too much growth would trigger inflation and...
MA's forget the past price action more abruptly than EMAs. The bar-to-bar change in an n-bar MA is only a function of the most recent bar and the...
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