Was it Niederhoffer?
It's a type of option, where a barrier level is set that will "activate" or "deactivate" the option, so to speak. Google it - should find plenty...
Foxmarks (bookmark synchronizer) is great if you use multiple computers!
In addition to being a narrow index, it is also price weighted (as opposed to market cap weighted like the S&P). So something like MCD has more...
Verbal intervention - Market News is reporting "ECB officials to express concern about Euro".
I heard it from a broker...
There's a <highly likely to be horsesh*t> rumor making the rounds that the ISM numbers were miscalculated.
Spreads between interbank rates (like LIBOR and EURIBOR) and short-term government rates (like T bills) are an indication of short-term...
Quite a day here. SPX bounced off a big level (38.2% retrace of the bull move up from 2002, also a 200 week moving average).
They settle based on the average of the fed funds target rate for the month though, so the early cut will affect the monthly average. That can...
Using Yahoo data for ^SPX, that index closed at 224.84 on Oct 19, 1987. The 200 day standard deviation of daily price changes is a bit over 5...
In January 2001 they did two cuts of 50 (the first was a surprise, the second at a scheduled meeting), but no single change of more than 75...
Ah ok - that makes sense. HSI getting pummeled the last few months (down about 25% from the October 07 highs).
That does not appear correct - what index are you looking at? The largest declining index I see in China last night was the Shanghai SE 50 A...
...or the Nasdaq after the bubble popped (even the S&P). Overlay a chart of the Fed Funds Target rate and those indices...
You could set up VNC servers on your machines and connect to each other with VNC viewers. There are some free ones out there (UltraVNC comes to...
They're generally not guaranteed by an outside entity - the two sides of the transaction are exposed to each other's creditworthiness (it's like...
Sure thing. Happy hunting!
Bills, bonds, LIBOR, can be found here: http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/index.html
Sure thing! I typed the wrong entry price in that calc in that post though, which you probably picked up on (25000 * 0.9895 = 24,737.50, and...
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