Excellent thread! Best of luck to you and congrats for having the guts to take a big risk in your life. I can respect what you're attempting and...
Yeah, actually you had a good point in your first response. This place really isn't too cool anymore.
Are you sure? You may want to re-read his response... So my thought is that he's just starting out himself. Don't get me wrong, that's fine,...
Thanks. To Wikipedia's credit, the article did mention that Windows 7 will be optimized for SSD, I just didn't include that in my response....
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It sounds like a good, scaled-down compromise of all those suggestions would be to use 2 RAID-0 arrays...one...
Thanks, Danno. Maybe I'll go with RAID-0 at first, my database doesn't really require a lot of redundancy protection since I'll be downloading...
Story is never irrelevant, it may explain something. And after that kind of build up...I'm all ears. Oh, you must be referring to this part:...
You think your response makes this place any cooler? The OP is asking to learn and at least offering to pay someone for their time. And what do...
I'm building an automated analysis engine to feed me the data and calculated results I need to make trading decisions. I'm interested in setting...
I'm with you on that! This is not my type of trade, but still good for an option pricing pop-quiz. :D
I see. Unfortunately, there is probably no choice but to avoid the stock right now. However, with a put IV of around 300% and a call IV of...
Pretty sure I never said I was "paralyzed at the thought" of anything...I'll need to double check though, it's all the way at the top of the page....
I'll answer your question with one of my own: Was LTCM a success? "Theoretically, yes. Hypothetically, yes. Realistically, no." But...
One strategy is limited risk (close to arb'd), the other is unlimited risk.
<B>IF</B> you can locate the stock to short...my broker could not find any for me. :( IV would be a concern since prices are so choppy right...
Hmmm, that's interesting. I had assumed they were open-outcry, but if you get near-instant fills then maybe not. Unless IB managed to match you...
I'd have to analyze the data a bit to know if the extra volatility would turn me off. In general though, is the increased actual volatility...
That's the answer I expected. :D I wouldn't either, unless the benefit from owning multiple indexes had a statistical advantage large enough to...
Obviously you would say that the diversification benefit outweighs the cost of having to fight for a good fill on SPX. I'd have to try it out to...
Good point. For a long term investor, that low level of diversification is not very useful, but over about a month (my target holding period for...
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