I assume Soros is talking his book. I wonder how big his short position is?
My view exactly. The government will produce as much fiat money (i.e., government debt) as it needs to in order to prop up prices.
I still see the same tired arguments (you can't eat gold, or run your car with it) as if you could do those things with green pieces of paper....
If you own an option you can exercise it at any time, even if it's OTM. Of course, there's no rational reason to do so. (You wouldn't want to...
GE is a solid company?! The only reason it's not bankrupt is because the government bailed it out with cheap money. I don't want to own any...
No, that assumes you hold the option until expiration. Suppose a stock is at $30, you buy an OTM call at $31 for $0.80, and it has a delta of...
As everyone else has pointed out, your second example is bullish -- you're betting that EWZ won't go below $65. In theory, if they are priced...
My horror stories are for stocks. My short bear call spread on SPX and my short bear call spread on IYT are doing just fine. :cool:
I actually have a large (for me) position in physical gold and silver (and a bit of platinum) that I bought years ago. My plan is to sell it when...
And another 500 TV ads per day make it obvious that now is the time to SELL YOUR GOLD 4 CA$H! Seriously, I expect that gold will get back to...
For options I like Interactive Brokers. The execution is no worse than any other broker I've tried and for retail traders the commissions can't...
The Treasury can issue as many bonds as it wants at low interest and the Fed will just snap them up, paying with printed money. The U.S....
Every congressman except Ron Paul believes we can deficit spend our way out of this recession. It worked so wonderfully well for the Japanese,...
Well, this web site is for traders, not investors. So the first thing you need to know about investing is the difference between that and...
I've made millions in hindsight, myself. Just this year in fact. Unfortunately, in foresight I'm more likely to lose thousands.
Certainly the best answer to this question.
As a follow up to my claim about leveraged ETFs being a terrible long term hold, let's look at two cases, one theoretical and one real. Suppose...
Did I get that right -- someone bought both $5 and $7.50 calls, not 5/7.5 call spreads? It's like he could make up his mind - ITM or OTM calls?
In an IRA you have to have cash to fully cover 100% of the cost of buying the stocks at the strike price when you sell puts. Basically you can't...
Well, I regularly sell call or put spreads, but I have a strict stop loss policy. Also, since they're spreads, the worst case loss may be large...
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