I think TWS and the back end could handle negative prices. It would seem the boolean flag had not been enabled for the oil contracts. No software...
If IB thought prices could not go negative and let traders load up with reduced margin, then they are just as much dopes as you reckon the...
Why CME didnt have a circuit breaker at 0 is beyond me. Stopped trading for the rest of the day if it wasnt the last trading day. So buyers who...
They screwed up. The platform couldn't handle negative prices. They didn't have a leg to stand on. It does show a level of incompetence at IB....
He is incorrect about Flu not being very asymptomatic. Majority of people who get Flu are also asymptomatic. I have learnt more about the...
Flu has been around a lot longer than COVID, multi year studies have been done. Studies based on blood tests, not anecdotes or surveys, this one...
I did the same thing, went to get some beer, but added milk and bread to my basket as cover.
And South Korea is doing the best job of containing the Virus out of everyone. Why cant we do what South Korea is doing? The model baselines...
I don't think anyone was predicting that 2 million people were going to die by august. There were always going to be counter measures put in...
I think the point of the lockdowns was to reduce absolute numbers not any specific percentages or ratios.
Im not pro lockdown. But it is obvious to me you cant really isolate high risk groups on their own. Not unless you daily test anyone they come...
3000 deaths for Sweden is the same as 100,000 deaths for the US. Stockholm death rate is at New York City levels. They are no where close to...
Stockholm deaths are around the same as New York City per capita. 1500 Stockholm dead would be the same as 12,750 dead in New York.
Boomer grandma had a mostly good life. Much better than her depression & war era parents. The unfortunate sick are going to die anyway. The...
Trump was checkmated, he didn't have the luxury of choosing to do what Sweden has done. His hand was forced. He really had no choice but to...
They just ordered another 100,000 body bags. It doesnt look like it will take long to fill those up.
The death rate is bad, higher than i would like to admit, i try to be optimistic. I suspect, the worldwide IFR is going to be closer to 1% than...
Another good data source is Bergamo in Italy: "With essentially everyone in Bergamo infected, and the known deaths since January — predicted to...
The CFR and IFR are identical for the ship as they caught pretty much everyone who was infected The 1.83% has to be adjusted down given the...
This was true a couple of months ago. Now there have been many studies and lots of data collected. Italy (absolute numbers using excess deaths...
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