6 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on SportsWatch: Always Dreaming wins 2017 Kentucky Derby
SportsWatch: Always Dreaming wins 2017 Kentucky Derby
Always Dreaming won the 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday, handing trainer Todd Pletcher his second Derby win and continuing a stretch of five favorites or co-favorites to win America’s most famous horse race.
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6 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How Volkswagen Quietly Stashed Half A Million Rigged Cars Around The Country
How Volkswagen Quietly Stashed Half A Million Rigged Cars Around The Country
Volkswagen bought back hundreds of thousands of emissions-cheating cars. We just discovered what it has done with them all…
6 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Sasol Sees Mixed Sales to Start 2017
Sasol Sees Mixed Sales to Start 2017
South Africa’s Sasol (NYSE: SSL) has seen many of the same pressures on its business that other energy companies have seen. Despite Sasol’s capacity to produce synthetic fuels, its stock has proven just as vulnerable as traditional exploration and production companies in the oil and gas sector to the tough conditions facing the market right now.
6 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on A Problem Emerges: Central Banks Injected A Record $1 Trillion In 2017… It’s Not Enough
A Problem Emerges: Central Banks Injected A Record $1 Trillion In 2017… It’s Not Enough
Two weeks ago Bank of America caused a stir when it calculated that central banks (mostly the ECB & BoJ) have bought $1 trillion of financial assets just in the first four months of 2017, which amounts to $3.6 trillion annualized, “the largest CB buying on record.”
6 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on TRIN (or ARMS) Index (TRIN-IBIS@IBIS) Displaying Crazy values
TRIN (or ARMS) Index (TRIN-IBIS@IBIS) Displaying Crazy values
Hello guys,
I am looking into the TRIN index (on xetra, hence IBIS), and it is displaying some very weird values.
I am talking TRIN with values of 4, or 5 on a regular basis. Values around 15, some days up to 400.
This can’t be right. What is going on, why am I seing this? This must be some kind of an error.
I am using Interactive Brokers’ TWS.
Here is a snapshot of how the chart looks like:
6 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on VIX fly / spread journal
VIX fly / spread journal
hi all – i’ve been around this and other forums for a little while and i decided it was time to start journaling on here.
i’ve spoken to a few of you privately, some publicly, and thanks to all that have given me guidance.
my trades are typically held over a week to month time frame, but occasionally could only be a few days and even shorter horizons.
i welcome your comments/thoughts.
i currently have a position on that i’ve been in for a few days now, it is slightly against me…
6 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on equilibria vs. disequilibria
equilibria vs. disequilibria
Thinking about economics isn’t, like, my profession. But it’s one of the ways I amuse myself.
So, I really cut my teeth for this with Von Mises. I don’t think Human Action is gospel. I mean, he says that markets can’t exist without the police. But I’ve heard of, say, drug dealers. So I read from other outlooks that I think might help me with refining approaches to problems. For instance, one belief I have that is apparently pretty uncommon is that agriculture is highly problematic….