The distribution of the poll results is interesting.
How does this work? If I come to the firm with 50k, I can only be exposed to 12.5k in options? What do you mean by "one to one"? No ratio...
On a Micro level, the stores around my city were CROWDED...hopefully this continues through Dec 24. How was your city??
Are you referring to Mandelbrot's book?
To further confuse: be aware of contango and backwardation! J/k, the only thing I can offer is that you do not pay interest on the 115k in your...
:p You'll be surprised with the amount of surprises to come
Reference to standard deviation? Although it should be 68% within one SD either way...based on a Gaussion distribution
They are required to have capital at the Federal Reserve. The bank does make a return on reserves, by the way....
I agree...OX has neat stuff
Who has excess reserve? Only the Fed and the bank itself know that. My guess is the more conservative banks have reserves. Remember that the...
Credit rating agencies gave AAA to toxic waste...They're unreliable
I tried to ask a more probing question and got virtually the same answer: ----------------------------------- Dear Mr. Matador04: Thank you...
Dear Mr. Matador04: Thank you for your recent correspondence and for your questions concerning ownership of stock in the Federal Reserve...
I thought about that; it wasn't as choppy as last week...so I suppose that would make sense
With the S&P down that much, shouldn't one expect the VIX to spike a little more than 2.02%? Please enlighten me...
I agree that it's mostly political. Great post, btw.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071118/opec.html
Day trade options? deep ITM?
Bad news was the cause of one of my large losses in '04. I had sold a put (OTM) and in a week the stock tanked 20%...I ended up recovering as it...
So let's get together on Saturday at Rock Bottom...there's also El Torito across the street if RB is too busy. Does 12 pm work? There's always...
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