Dudes relax. USA is still the biggest market, it has the biggest GDP by a big margin. Which of the s&p 500 companies are you against? When the...
What if: 1. The Econ data keeps improving 2. The fed cools on the full QE II? 3. Signs show up for impending rate increase? What will...
A deflationary spiral is a situation where decreases in price lead to lower production, which in turn leads to lower wages and demand, which leads...
The effects of deflation are: Decreasing nominal prices for goods and services Increasing real value of cash money and all monetary items...
On a first glance the conspiracy theorists do not believe in Occam's razor principle. After all, all of their theories are much much more complex...
Chuck Norris does not target a rate the word target infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris sets the rate.
When the Deflation goes to sleep every night it checks its closet for Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris can beat the Chinese into buying more of our debt whereas Tim Geithner has to beg.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aLepjRCRQ3go Chuck Norris doesn't target inflation. He roundhouse-kicks it until it begs...
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Is the current M2 around 8709 bill? If it is this is 7% increase.
Why didn't I short the ZB?!? Now it is so obvious. :) But who was buying all the way to 133??
Taken together, the Desk anticipates conducting $850 billion to $900 billion of purchases of longer-term Treasury securities through the end of...
Last time it took 3 days for the long end to go from 133 to 130. Today only 30 min. That qualifies for shitting blood I guess. But the middle...
The FED open communication channel worked. Not Shock and Awe. So there should not be much of a move either way.
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Agree. Delta is the probability of the option ending up in the money not the probability that the price will end up on the strike.
Also delta is the probability that the underlying will finish on the strike price at expiration. 50 delta =50% probability
Using options will make you guess the future volatility. You can count your deltas but if you are wrong about the volatility your result will...
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