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ArkansasDon
| Favorite team: | Arkansas  |
| Location: | Conway, Arkansas |
| Biography: | Lived in Louisiana ages 0-10 then moved to Arkansas and have lived here ever since. |
| Interests: | football. whiskey. loose women. (in that order) |
| Occupation: | college instructor |
| Number of Posts: | 785 |
| Registered on: | 9/8/2008 |
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re: Difference between an investment bank and a brokerage?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/22/08 at 8:28 am
So if I want to make a public offering, the only people I can do it through now are Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs? Or are there other minor firms?
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If you were a bank....
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/22/08 at 7:38 am
what would you require to make a home loan now?
In terms of down payment, income, etc.
I know my Credit Union requires a 20% down payment - and they had that requirement before this mess began, too....
Difference between an investment bank and a brokerage?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/22/08 at 6:41 am
Difference between an investment bank and a brokerage?
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re: A College Football Top 25
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/21/08 at 7:58 pm
I've never seen him post there...
re: If we officially changed from a capitalist to a socialist
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/21/08 at 6:39 pm
We're "officially" capitalist?
Government providing welfare to big business isn't socialism, its fascism.
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re: Anyone here feel sympathy for them?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/21/08 at 6:38 pm
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No we don't want a ton of companies to fail all at once, but all of these companies need to face some serious negative consequences so we don't repeat this mess again in 30 years or so.[/quote]
As the proud owner of 34 shares of FNM I can say I experienced negative consequences.
I m...
re: Which convertible would you buy?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/21/08 at 6:35 pm
Miata = woman car
seriously Zach.
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re: A College Football Top 25
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/21/08 at 4:46 pm
For what? They've only played one game. And they had to struggle in it, to beat a team who themselves struggled to beat Mississippi state and whose only other accomplishment worth mentioning at all is Southern Miss.
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re: A College Football Top 25
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/21/08 at 4:39 pm
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I think your name should be substituted with retard.
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I usually substitute names with as much retard as possible. Moving too quickly could damage them....
A College Football Top 25
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/21/08 at 4:26 pm
Rank Team Rating SOS Rank SOS W L Pct
1 Southern Cal 1053 4 693 2 0 1.000
2 Utah 840 15 579 4 0 1.000
3 Wisconsin 837 22 565 3 0 1.000
4 Wake Forest 831 26 554 3 0 1.000
5 Alabama 824 50 507 4 0 1.000
6 Georgia 816 40 531 4 0 1.000
7 Bo...
re: LSU #5 in the AP #6 in Coaches Poll
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/21/08 at 3:59 pm
Check out this Poll:
http://tubatop101.freewebpage.org/
Then check out this poll of polls:
http://www.mratings.com/cf/compare.htm
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re: Typical length of a short position ?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/20/08 at 2:16 am
What if the person whom the shares are borrowed from has his account liquidated due to failing to meet his own margin requirements? Then what happens? Are you forced to close the short position?
Say someone with a margin account had shares of XYZ loaned out to someone else - and he wanted to se...
re: SO where did the money go?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/20/08 at 2:10 am
[quote]Who actually made money in this whole fricken' mess.[/quote]
The lobbyists....
re: WHy the bailout???
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/20/08 at 2:07 am
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Does this skew the Risk/Reward tenet of the Free Market and capitalism in general? If the poorly managed companies get bailed out, that seems like a complete violation of the "Corporate Darwinism" that is essential to the success of the free market.
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Apparently that isn't true. ...
re: How to get short when shorting is illegal?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/19/08 at 11:58 am
Oh, OK, I got confused I didn't know you mean a bid/ask spread I thought you meant an actual option spread.
Why is it that high?
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re: Short Selling (for a short bus rider)
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/19/08 at 11:54 am
The loaner stands to gain nothing - except that it allows him to use a margin account. I could be wrong, but I think when you get a margin account you are required to allow your shares to be borrowed for short selling. No margin account, and your shares don't get borrowed....
re: How to get short when shorting is illegal?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/19/08 at 11:52 am
[quote] How to get short when shorting is illegal?
see my post about put spreads earlier in this thread. Put options are not working real well right now.
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What do you mean when you say citi is $2 a spread?
Does this mean the put options are mispriced, and if that's true, wouldn't th...
re: How to get short when shorting is illegal?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/19/08 at 11:26 am
[quote]k, apparently inverse ETFs will work - they use something called "total return swaps" instead of shorting.
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Yeah, except that if the company they bought the swaps from goes under, the swaps don't get paid....
re: How to get short when shorting is illegal?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/19/08 at 11:20 am
[quote]We are a smart bunch of people here. Making shorting illegal is a set-up up for a crash, and I want to be short for a crash. So, we need to figure out how to make money from a crash that doesn't involve shorting stocks. I haven't thought about it yet, but I will on the way to work. This will ...
Typical length of a short position ?
Posted by ArkansasDon on 9/19/08 at 11:10 am
What is the typical length in time of a short position? This may be a naive analysis - but it seems to me you can't really do any long term damage to a stock by shorting it, because don't you have to close the position out fairly soon, like, in months, not years? This would mean your sale is matched...
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