Comments on: Q&A: Saturday morning mailbag

By: Reaper

Reaper — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:29:55 +0000

Answer: I have no clue whatsoever.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:28:27 +0000

A question for next time…. This is probably the wrong place to ask since you dont trade options, but Ill try anyways.

Ive looked and cant figure this out…

Do you know if you can group option spreads in the IB portfolio? Its hard to keep up with individual option strategies when they are all grouped by price. (ex: buying 3 different condors with different strikes…)

By: Reaper

Reaper — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:45:02 +0000

To truly lose the correlation you want short to medium-term treasuries or TIPS. I would own a bunch of TIPS if it weren’t for their tax inefficiencies.

Speaking of the law I would so love someone to go after stock pumpers for honest services fraud (even though I am dubious of the current legal conception of that crime).

By: Tastylunch

Tastylunch — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:28:45 +0000

Thanks Reaper!

RE: newswire I’ve been messing around with skygrid.com . I still haven’t decided whether I like it or not.

Well I do hope you eventually go into white collar crime fighting for purely selfish reasons. The public could really use some new William Black types.

that was good point about bonds… non correlation is a good way to reduce risk. Although I suppose to be truly reduce risk you might need some small negative correlation exposure…