If the current bear market continues into a 2008 style crash I won't be surprised to see gold slapped down into the low 900s or even the 800s....
While many people on Wall Street are in the business of bilking people out of money, the government certainly is as well. The states, not Wall...
You won't consistently make money in options unless you have an edge. You won't consistently make money in trading stocks unless you have an...
You should all keep in mind what a "junior gold stock" is. Its an exploration company, *not* a mining company. A typical junior exploration...
The "edge" is a reliable system for making trades that have a positive expectation. If you believe in the efficient market hypothesis that...
All government fiscal projections are based on fantasy, inevitably of the over optimistic kind. That why so many state pension systems are now in...
Well of course what you have is a put calendar, a call calendar, and a short strangle. I'd be worried about that short strangle in this market....
Well, it is the options stuff that really is the issue here. Recall the case from the option thread. A guy was long the SPY 119 puts and short...
OTOH, if you have a Che Guevara poster hanging in your campaign office your man gets elected president....
The only reason GE isn't bankrupt is because the U.S. government is backing its debt, so it can continue to borrow at low rates as if it was a...
That's an argument against allowing principals and employees of a company to short their own stock. (I believe that most companies already have...
No. The losses of the home owners had nothing to do with credit default derivatives, as home owners took neither side of those bets. They...
It will. If you can't short an asset put-call parity no longer applies, and market makers can no longer hedge short puts with short stock. This...
Well, three weeks later and it sure as heck looks like it's consolidating. Meanwhile, gold is back above $1200.
Lending to people too poor to pay their loans back is of course what caused the mortgage crisis in the first place. No wonder Democrats are in...
Kitco's Jon Nadler has made it clear in his latest article that the Kitco web page referred to by zerohedge showing gold prices in deutschemarks...
The best way to punish the children is to send them to a public school.
PG is much less risky than the average stock in SPY so why shouldn't it have lower IV? Heck, PG is less likely to go bankrupt than the U.S....
Actually, I believe the 0.01 prices for $40 stocks were due to some sort of computer glitch at the exchanges. Not even trading bots are dumb...
I don't know about Virginia but I know that Maryland imposed some sort of "millionaire tax". So of course the rich people moved out and tax...
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