Perhaps I misspoke by saying "speculative". The same thing applies to nonspeculative capital goods expenditure in general.. as long as the...
It allows more speculative exploration of new technologies than would otherwise be possible to happen. If money supply is highly constrained,...
I disagree.. consider that there's no theoretical or practical limit yet evident in the extent of our current technology. Moore's Law is holding....
That works great in a medieval agrarian economy with infintesimal economic growth. But that makes it practically impossible to have any sort of...
The thing is, it's true. BSC and similar actually *are* too important to be allowed to collapse outright. The Fed was right to bail them out....
I'm going to FedEx a copy of my IB statements to the Treasury with my address and the losses highlighted... and I want my check in Euros.
Geeeez. If I had known that they would just write off half of the principal I owed in a few years, *I* would have gone out during the bubble and...
The markets aren't a zero sum game because neither stock markets nor the futures markets nor any others are a closed system. There is almost...
Hrm. I was thinking it could be a flag - that dropoff was pretty sharp. Any thoughts on why it is/isn't a flag? I'm no expert, so any advice on...
Hi, Sorry about the certificate/image issue - bug on the server. I fixed it. It should work now with no certificates and images should display...
AAPL's products are all luxury/high end prestige items, though - how much would that be affected by a mild recession? Rich people will still be...
Hi, I've just written up a general technical analysis of AAPL. My theory is that it is setting up for a bounce on solid support at 125-130,...
Hi, I'm an experienced Unix software engineer looking to meet individuals or firms in the San Francisco area interested in working together on...
You might try http://www.distillingfinance.com/ - a blog aggregator with many interesting articles.
Hi, I'm interested in meeting active traders in the San Francisco area to discuss the game and bounce ideas around. PM me if you're interested...
I'm referring to a straight straddle - long a call, long a put ATM. How do you pick your setups? Most of what I see has breakevens too far out...
I stand corrected, it appears that nothing backfills correctly on volume bars with IB. My results earlier were probably due to it using saved data...
Hi all, I am using the latest NinjaTrader with IB. If I pull up a N225 future on a volume bar chart, it backfills fine. However, HSI and HHI do...
Note the author, and especially the second-to-last paragraph: http://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3272 Though I doubt anything...
Since the spreads are so horrible on this relatively popular contract, why aren't third party scalpers moving in and making a tighter market?
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