It’s analyst ratings are high -stockscouter 10, earnings are great, target is $40…what’s up? I know this is not a good time for the market, but other stocks go up, why not ms?
Posts Tagged ‘Isn’t.’
Is’nt there aan investment market in the world that trades 24/7″ OTHER” than forex and commodities?
29
Apr
A foreign stock exchange on the globe somewhere that goes 24 hours a day or some other market that never shuts down where you can invest 24 hours and profit from?
Isn’t it racist that everybody on TV is white?
23
Apr
Th R some black, & one latin program; but, most all the shows are of white families. Isn’t that racist? Like in the military, all the authority ranks R whites, and every one in office is white; yeah, one or two aren’t; but, it’s still RACIST, isn’t it?
Now they’re going to say bad things & that this is racist, simply because I stated a fact. Regardless to what is said, what I stated proves that non-whites are being excluded from the wealth, authority and the decision making. There is no reason why TV shows should not be of other ethnic families. It would B best to see military & government representatives of other ethinsity desucsing the issues that pertain to other ethnic groups, as oppose to the people that say things like, they aren’t from here, discussing the issues; when in fact their foreign countries don’t use U.S. currency, they need passports to get in and out of their country, they’re people that came here and commited a holocaust on the Indians & others.
Isn’t a Balanced Budget the best possible economic stimulus?
23
Apr
During the Clinton/Gingrich years, the balanced budget led to the strongest ever US currency, that caused an explosion in the tech sector, investment oversears, a brain INFLUX from other countries and the strongest financial growth ever in the history of our country!
Then the first thing Bush did was write a huge tax break (taxes had already been hugely lowered under Clinton/Gingrich but not in an inflationary way!) and the market immediately tanked!
Foreign countries aren’t stupid – and they know when we can’t support our currency. As a result the value of our dollar has gone down BY MORE THAN HALF in the last 8 years!
That has stifled investment in our country, decreased our ability to import raw materials to do our own manufacturing, and resulted in the current credit crisis (OUR MONEY ISN’T WORTH ANYTHING SO WHY WOULD ANYONE ACCEPT IT AS COLLATERAL!)
The budget needs to be balanced and PRONTO!
That means returning taxes to some reasonable level for everyone – not only the rich – and lowering spending in a reasonable way (not shutting down the military and public schools as Ron Paul seems to think).
Your thoughts?
Let’s DEMAND that our politicians write a Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment and then HOLD THEM TOO IT!
This thing about Social Security is interesting and I’d love to know the truth. It’s been accused against Clinton, but I remember hearing way before that that SS was being used to pay for other things.
I heard Clinton and Gingrich had figured it in to balance the budget – is this true?
If the budget was not balanced why did Republicans say it was at the time?
Where can I cash in foreign currency that isn’t in circulation anymore?
18
Apr
I have two (2) 250,000 Turkish Lira bills. According to the IRS foreign currency exchange rate I should get approximately $167,514 for each one.
I went to an exchange bank (US Bank) in Milwaukee today and was told that they could not take them because these bills are no longer in circulation.
My question is where I can take these bills to be cashed into USD. The bank basically said I would have to fly to Turkey and get it taken care of there…
Someone please help.
Why isn’t there a forex currency index?
06
Apr
Just like the stocks are combined into NASDAQ for example, then why can’t you combine the forex pairs and assign them a mathematical value???
Take a look here:
http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/currencies-glance/
Fxstreet lists 34 forex pairs.
Benefits:
- Less risk.More pairs – less risk. Traders will take advantage because the market is open day/night in contrast to the daily trades among the stock market. That said, the forex traders gain several times more action with reduced risk, thanks to the combination of many pairs at once. No surprises anymore:Think about it: The european bank annouces higher rates, but the expectations were for lower rates. So, if you trade EUR/USD you will lose when you have selled. With such important news you will lose perhaps over 50 pips and if you trade on 100:1 leverage buying more than 1 lot…say goodbye to your money. Even without leverage the big players will lose, unless they utilize some industrial espionage 
to predict the rates that are going to be anoounced. So…if the one pair goes higher with 50 pips, else will go downtrend with 50, which keeps the balance. Of course if the balance is perfect 50/50 the index won’t move and you will not benefit at all , but in case where you have 50/25 you get your 25 or less if your predictions are in the right direction.
There is one drawback, of course, like anything in life : With so many pairs it will be impossible to rely on any news announcements. Your only hope will be the candlestick chart, perhaps combined with some additional mathematical technics(martingales, random walk avoidance, compound interest) and economical such(hedging, options..).
But isn’t the technical data the favourite to the forex traders?
So far, sadly there isn’t a “forex index” to my knowledge??? So the best you can do is simply make your own “portfolio” and assign it a mathematical value.
I plan to create a computer program(…a can do that 
, to calculate and trace such index value of about 40 forex pairs. If I succeed, I will post it here with link to website to see the index in action .
Thanks.
Isn’t arbitrage slightly underrated by EMH?
10
Mar
OK, personally I think there is some truth in EMH and that you can’t predict the big financial markets. But, arbitrage seems a little bit underrated by EMH. I am not sure if Prof. Fama has stated this in his original thesis back in the 70s, but you will find many “official studies” online(and in your university) that in the EMH world arbitrage doesn’t exist or when it occurs – it lasts for just a few seconds. OK….but just a “minor detail” that we have something called “high frequency trading” – Yes, you are right – “a few seconds are NOT problem for a high frequency computer”. Actually, below I give you a few examples(without formulas and sophisticated code – just easy to understand arguments), as to why APT, MPT, EMH and all these abbreviations fail when it comes to arbitrage:
1. Arbitrage exists for just 2-3 seconds?:
See above ^…high frequency trading. Also, see this very interesting study from Oxford which not only disproves EMH but even its “refined version” – the Adaptive Market Hypothesis: AMH (too many abbrevations already…funny). So:
http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/users/murphya/Arbitrage%20Opportunities%20in%20Nasdaq%20Stocks.pdf
2. You cannot profit from a carry trade, due to large market risk?
Fail. You can very easily: a) Go long on XAU/USD or vice versa, short it. b) Hedge the market risk with a comex gold futures gold contract. c) Receive the tom rollover on the XAU/USD.
At the end – you end up with no market risk and 3%(or more) leveraged inter market rate. How much is that since both your futures and xauusd forex are margined? You are right: over 50% interest yearly without any market and default risk, the % obviously depends on your broker and how much your forex position is leveraged. The comex gold is an exchange defined initial/maintenance variance margin.
You can make a similar trade with cfd/stocks.
3. Options/betting markets are very efficient:
Fail. With some persistence you can easily find a broker with call/put option sell premium higher than other broker with option buy premium lower, on OTC option markets. You are obviously hedged when buying at the lower price and receiving higher premium at the other broker. Problem here is that there is market risk – but only “virtually”, since you cannot lose even if one of the positions is closed. Of course you can do the same in betting markets when the odds summed on -1th power are below 1.
There some other examples.
Point is that when you read about arbitrage you read only about “buy microsoft stock in london and sell it in new york when prices differ” – which is complete ballooney. Not only this type of “Arbitrage” doesn’t happen – but it’s practically nearly impossible to make money from this even when it happens. The other type that you will read about online is the “triangular arbitrage” with 3 currencies – which occurs once in a millenium.
The first examples however are much more practical, if not shocking since some of them exist for quite some time and not even 2-3 seconds. Which means that most “arbitrageurs” are actually stupid not to exploit them, despite being a public knowledge.
I thought to go on details with formulas, links, references, computer code, etc. in this topic…but I am lazy and busy now .
Thanks!
https://riselux.com