I've been an equity option marketmaker myself and most of the MM's on the floor were delta neutral. In the extremely liquid crowds, like the...
Hmmm... hedged ? I´m pretty sure that the costs of hedging would be more than the possible return on the carry trade itself. And if you leverage...
Not sure what you´re getting at, please explain.
An explanation that´s sometimes given is the carry trade: institutions borrow money in the USD, at 0% interest and let it accumulate interest in...
Schiff calling Bernanke "the devil" in today's VLOG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqEwFpXqbvg
the sterling API is optimized for VB and therefore you will attain WAY higher performance using VB (and it's also a lot easier/faster to program)....
Every now and then I go to the casino to play blackjack, which I find entertaining. If you play perfect basic strategy you'll lose around 0.5% per...
A wise man once said "Those who speak, don't know. Those who know don't speak". I think once people are really starting to make money, MOST...
I must say I do like this creative answer (not trolling this time) ;) But hey, nobody can always be serious, if a topic is just too plain...
Hehe and that's probably because I wasn't intelligent enough to truely understand your very important conclusions ? :)
Hehe. Since I am, unlike you, a succesfull daytrader, I don't think there's something wrong with my comprehension skills :)
Reading back this thread I only see the remark that you admit having failed at daytrading, is that what you're referring to ?
LOL, I'm not asserting anything, just feeding back something to the TO that's about as stupid as what he says. He might learn something (although...
LOL, Yeah, investing over the last 10+ years has really been good man, with the S&P and Nasdaq still below their 1999 levels and the Nikkei still...
I do like the 10% idea though. If they need to re-install that damn rule, then that 10% is a good way of easing the pain for us
Sterling is by no means perfect and god knows, we had our share of bullshit with sterling as well. However, I was just reacting to your first...
Sterling isn't always top notch, but worse than prosper pro ? LOL, come on, prosper pro is way way WAY worse. Having traded several years on...
FED is injecting money into the banks but the banks are not lending it out to other banks/companies so there's your answer. Once they do that...
VERY dangerous assumption you're making here ! You're assuming that if inflation kicks in, the FED is going to raise rates to battle it. In normal...
I'm also interested in this. I don't want to purchase ETN's, because of the credit risks (for example, when LEH defaulted, their ETN's became...
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