Lost_BiomedE

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Educated as a biomedical engineer with focus in electrical and software engineering. I am lazily managing an online-retail lifestyle business, 2006 - present. Currently, I am a full time day trader.

Location: Kailua-Kona, HI

email: my user name without underscore (alloneword) at gmail

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Comment · 7 years ago
We have yet to see another Stalin with all this new tech. Something I hope we never see. I wish Gulag Archipelago was history 101 at university.
Comment · 8 years ago
I assume it is like the number 40 or 10,000. It is a number substituted in to mean a very big number.
Comment · 8 years ago
If they are doing this without disclosure, they are adding counterparty risk without consent. Just because they didn't blow up does not mean they can't. It doesn't even have to be due to your trade but someone else's. There have been single trades that have blown up international banks. Rare, and probably irrelevant here, but a point for perspective.
Comment · 8 years ago
Also potassium. Very few hit the RDA and most are shocked how high it is.
Comment · 8 years ago
Yes. Mindfulness is not about just being present during pleasurable moments. A lot of the value, to me, is being present when my mind or expectations conflict with the world around us. That leads to an examination of ourselves, insight, and ultimately growth. This is very different than the withdrawl into feel good moments, which is what is often sold to us.
Comment · 9 years ago
I do something like what you are saying but with selling covered calls while I am long a stock. A quick search online will show you strategies like this. It is not uncommon for more active equity traders.

I mostly play long cycles in the equity market instead of trading. When I do trade equities, I play one or two stocks that I know their behavior intimately. My very active trading is mostly in futures and currencies.

Comment · 9 years ago
Buying naked puts. It is like shorting but very leveraged and must be timed.
Comment · 9 years ago
Safe bet: cash. Speculative bet: put options.
Comment · 9 years ago
I worked in this field a bit at Baylor. There are those who want to model the 'hardware' down to every complexity and those who want to figure out the 'software' that emerges from the physical hardware. The groups communicate but are fairly divided.

Does it tune itself or is static? It definitely tunes, but it can be meaningful to the algorithm or ignored.

Comment · 9 years ago
"But it doesn't get truly dangerous until people are buying stocks with borrowed money. "

Currently, the borrowed money is nearly free money via low interest rates. A lot of games are being played to juice out every cent that can be made on being able to get cheap money. When the value of assets used to play these games are ignored vs. the diminishing profit. It becomes musical chairs.

I doubt we get your everyday Joe betting on margin like the dotcom bubble, but we have the same effect, just different users.

Comment · 9 years ago
Isn't the promotion transparent enough to not be shitty? To me is seems more like, 'if you are going to do it anyway and are on the fence about who you are going to go with, try us!'.
Comment · 9 years ago
Punycode Alert is one. It has 12 users and no reviews. I haven't looked into it besides a quick search.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is my understanding as well. I get great info talking with smallcap to the just barely midcap companies if you ask the right questions. Heck, usually, I am able to get a conference with a VP or CEO if my questions go above paygrade. I am no whale.

In practice, you will not get the same level of info on larger companies if you are not institutional or in a group of retail investors holding a decent share-count. Information obtained is usually a small amount above what is found on the conference call or via google.

Comment · 9 years ago
Agree, that would likely work or a solution could be found.
Comment · 9 years ago
The problem with re-using a box is that it loses a lot of integrity after the initial shipment. Its crush rating is reduced and chance of tear increases sharply. Many damaged and ripped parcels at the post office are due to box reuse or bad packaging combined with incorrect crush rating.

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