crws's Account Talk

[crws]

Since I exited after the August OPEX, with 13 days of trading in a hedged position consisting of 81% F, 10% spread in C,S,&I , and 10% spread through the L Funds, I have had 9 of 13 positive days for an overall gain of .3% after backing out my contributions.

If I extrapolated that rate of return out over the course of a year, theoretically using 250 trading days, it would produce a return of 5.77%.
Good to know.

 

[alevin]

crws, not sure what you mean by backing out the new contribs, where do your new contribs go?

 

[crws]

crws, not sure what you mean by backing out the new contribs, where do your new contribs go?

I lent them to BlackRock!
...I meant I didn't count them as gains... that's all.

 

[Handballer]

Theres musilm mosques near you and me too.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galler...08-11/the-biggest-muslim-capitals-in-america/

http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnplayer.swf?aid=17933

'Islamization' of Paris a Warning to the West
PARIS - Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.

This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/August/Islamization-of-Paris-a-Warning-to-the-West/

 

[crws]

crws, not sure what you mean by backing out the new contribs, where do your new contribs go?

ps
At the moment, I have 50/50 going to C & S

 

[crws]

Theres musilm mosques near you and me too.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galler...08-11/the-biggest-muslim-capitals-in-america/

Thanks for the link.

 

[crws]

saved by the bell

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-30/u-s-lawmakers-push-to-block-postal-service-plan-to-cut-saturday-delivery.html

U.S. Lawmakers Push to Block Postal Service Plan to Cut Saturday Delivery
By Brian Faler - Jul 29, 2010 9:00 PM PT

Lawmakers moved yesterday to block plans by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service to save billions of dollars by eliminating mail delivery service on Saturdays.

A pair of congressional panels approved legislation mandating the agency continue to offer six-day delivery amid complaints reduced service would inconvenience the public and result in layoffs. Lawmakers said the Postal Service has other ways of filling its budget hole.

“There are several steps that can be taken before we decide to go to five-day service,” said Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the chamber’s deputy Democratic leader. “There’s a question about whether they overpaid into their pension system and we haven’t resolved that -- and that’s a big amount of money. It’s billions.”

 

[crws]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/diy-flying/high-flying-wingsuit-adventures
High-Flying Adventures in a Wingsuit
Jeb Corliss has jumped from the world’s tallest building, leaped into its deepest sinkholes and gone for a swim with its fiercest predators. But that was just a warmup. Sometime soon, Corliss hopes to put on a wingsuit, launch from a helicopter, glide through the air and land—without a parachute.

Check out the follow-up story...
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/safety/4344036

Gonna get wet today. Got 2 IFT's burning a hole in my pocket. We'll see if OPEX week gets back to resuming positive bias.

L2040 2%
L2030 2%
L2020 2%
LIncome 2%

G 2%
F 30%
C 25%
S 25%
I 10%

*Subject to change by 0900*

 

[crws]

IFT

Remaining L's
2% ea

G 5%
F 35%
C 20%
S 25%
I 7%

 

[crws]

popped the hatch

G 5%
F 80%
C 3%
S 2%
I 2%
L's 2% ea (4)
(In case I need to do the <1% shuffle)

 

[Birchtree]

Hang tight Bro - I'm going to covet your #72 tracker position - could be there by the end of the week. All our MB leaders are paranoid and scared which is perfect for an opportunity to move up. Mindylou says to have no fear because the bull is starting a rampage.

 

[crws]

Hang tight Bro - I'm going to covet your #72 tracker position - could be there by the end of the week. All our MB leaders are paranoid and scared which is perfect for an opportunity to move up. Mindylou says to have no fear because the bull is starting a rampage.

yessir, the rule I try to go by is red or black. 72 or not I'm still in the black.
good to see you with a tailwind.

 

[crws]

Oops....Deja Vu

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-23-2010/postcards-from-the-pledge

Is that really it... really?

 

[crws]

Why Jack Welch is Wrong about Obama

 

[crws]

For Birchtree-
and welcome to page 2!

"Octomom" Sells Autographed Undies at Yard Sale
Items For Sale Include a Bikini, Nursing Bra and Pregnancy Panties
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-nadya-suleman-broke,0,7201237.story

LA HABRA, Calif. -- Nadya Suleman held a yard sale and online auction at her Madonna Lane home in La Habra Saturday morning to help raise money to pay her mortgage.

The mother of 14 sold items like the bikini she wore on the cover of tabloid magazines and an autographed nursing bra, according to the OC Register.

Suleman faces foreclosure if she can't meet a balloon mortgage payment of $450,000 on Oct. 9

 

[Birchtree]

I bet ten of those brats will do prison time and the girls will be pregnant before they turn twelve. Yup, some kind of life for those kids. The best thing to happen would be for mom to get hit by a train - then social security would kick in to support the kids.

 

[crws]

I bet ten of those brats will do prison time and the girls will be pregnant before they turn twelve. Yup, some kind of life for those kids. The best thing to happen would be for mom to get hit by a train - then social security would kick in to support the kids.

It's unbelievable she's still getting media time.
In a previous article she said she wanted to birth one more time...

 

[crws]

Folks, even in capitalism there is a line you don't cross.
Ben Franklin started libraries for the public, by the public.
There is no excuse for letting corporate America ooze into the core of our commonwealth.
Will we soon be renaming our cities with a "sponsored by" caveat?

Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system.
Now the company, Library Systems & Services, has been hired for the first time to run a system in a relatively healthy city, setting off an intense and often acrimonious debate about the role of outsourcing in a ravaged economy.

A $4 million deal to run the three libraries here is a chance for the company to demonstrate that a dose of private management can be good for communities, whatever their financial situation. But in an era when outsourcing is most often an act of budget desperation — with janitors, police forces and even entire city halls farmed out in one town or another — the contract in Santa Clarita has touched a deep nerve and begun a round of second-guessing.

Can a municipal service like a library hold so central a place that it should be entrusted to a profit-driven contractor only as a last resort — and maybe not even then?

 

[crws]

and the winner is....?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-27/treasuries-rise-on-speculation-federal-reserve-to-increase-debt-purchases.html

Treasuries gained after the government’s $36 billion auction of two-year notes drew the highest level of demand since August 2007 as investors speculated the Federal Reserve will buy more government bonds.

Bonds rose earlier as Anglo Irish Bank Corp.’s senior debt was cut to the lowest investment grade rating by Moody’s Investors Service, encouraging demand for safety. The two-year notes sold today drew a yield of 0.441 percent, the lowest since the government began selling the securities on a quarterly basis in September 1974.
The size of the two-year note offering was the smallest since November 2008. The Treasury will auction $35 billion in five-year notes tomorrow and $29 billion in seven-year debt Sept. 29.

 

[jimijr]

Overdue book fines be goin' up in Santa clarita, mon!