Holding to expiration is an edge case that has interest to some of us but you're right, probably not to most. There are a strategies that take...
Good point on the calendar spreads, I don't trade those so hadn't thought about it. I guess the question is why the SPX weeklies close at 3:00 then.
That's very interesting, I never noticed that before. I dug into the spec and while the S&P 500 PM settles are based on "the official closing...
To clarify/extend that a bit, cash settled pm-close index options close at 3pm CT on the day they expire. For example the weekly S&P 500 options...
Thanks for the additional info. I'm fleeing IB as well, so looks like I'll be making the call rounds. (Since the stats knowledge of most posters...
I've got what I'll admit up front are probably some stupid questions, but can you provide some insight on how you're clearing and accessing the...
This is finance 101, something that loyek590 has clearly taken and something it appears you've either not taken or forgotten. The yield on a bond...
And those 8% "blue chip" bonds have a 6% chance of defaulting, if you take 2% to be the risk free rate. The risk of default is completely priced...
loyek590, you just made the critical point "it is all efficiently priced". Any kind of carry trade involves risk, and the risk is exactly equal to...
Maybe undergrad, although if you're talking a top university there are 20 equally qualified students representing every race for every spot....
I'm sympathetic to your frustration with what is essentially a fake tuition number provided which as you pointed out is much like the essentially...
Most of tuition at most top schools is paid for by the endowment, not student's parent's cutting checks. So what you're advocating for is already...
Great, I think we've all moved to agreement. You've started to actually look at the CPI and realize that items like rent and medical costs you...
I don't know about Harvard, but I know Stanford doesn't charge any tuition for children who's parents make less than $100,000/year, and doesn't...
I'm pretty sure when spacewiz said "And don't tell me those "independent public and private sources" you mention are really independent or worthy...
Which is it, an academic argument or a ridiculous exercise of actually taking pictures of prices of food staples in your grocery store, which...
Just once, make a concrete argument of what part of CPI is faked. Sure any measure of inflation can be critiques on things like what should be...
If you believe that the hundreds of GS employees in the Labor Department who published CPI over the past several years lied about the numbers,...
In my 40s, I posted my background previously in this thread but since der_kommissar claimed that one post ever of my background on ET was me...
Just to clarify, a 5% error would be actual inflation of a commodity measured at 1.05% when the official number was 1%. I know, percent of a...
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