aspiringsensei

I'll offer feedback on the ratings system. My one gripe with your site is that the "buy" or "sell" justifications provided by your users seem weak. For example:

    Electric cars are pretty modern now and Tesla is one of  the few companies, that really can offer some excitement to them

- User Vlado

If you'd really like these guys to learn about investing, you should think about putting prompts in to get them considering the various factors that might lead to this being a successful investment:

* What's this company's valuation? * How does it compare in the competitive landscape? * How well-capitalized is it? * Etc, etc.

It seems like these are "bus station judgments" in large part, where people go "i like this company, it will do well." Build in prompts for deeper consideration if you really want to teach people something and generate useful data.

My employer is hyper-strict about stuff that is directly competitive with their offerings, but has tightly "ringfenced" those offerings and allows us to do what we like outside them.

>Maintaining a short position is expensive

Short positions on companies like Netflix should be initiated using capped-loss derivatives instead of assuming the unlimited risk of selling the company's stock short.

Buying a long-dated put option is often the best way to short something, assuming you have conviction.

Great link, I've definitely spent much longer than I expected reading these articles.

Bloggers outnumber AAPL sell-side coverage by infinity to 48.

Do you mean "incentive to predict conservatively" rather than "incentive to under-predict"?

Many people are eating for survival, not epicurean delights. I hear your complaints about lack of taste, but I don't think they invalidate the method of growing hydroponically.

As a former Sevilla resident, nice to click around for a while.

> Using a $225,000 microscope

I saw a microscope for sale at best buy for $40! This is waste, pure and simple!

edit: Either I'm not funny or people don't get sarcasm. Probably the former.

This is a great question: I am working on getting you an answer from a derivatives expert.

I suspect the reason has to do with difficulty inherent to unbundling existing derivatives contracts in order to isolate "your" mortgage, but I'll circle back when I get an expert opinion.

The Magnetar trade was fascinating, and I humbly submit that any reporting done by This American Life is likely to be better reporting than any other news agency out there.

>I've been in both workplaces and graduate programs where one's political views were simply assumed.

Ditto with religion. I'm not devout, but I don't believe it's anyone's right to sit around and mock religious people on pure "durr hurr god isn't real" grounds.