is there an update on the 2nd ed? in canada the book is no longer available - according to the local megachain it is out of print or about to be so - and at the usual american online suspects the previous edition is selling for a full 50% off.

<t>not sure if i understand the method. is the idea to plunk some money down at a price - any price - and just wait for a profit? that's problematic. but if you're talking about this not as a one-shot play but as a kind of mutant scaling in - ie, split your stake into really small pieces and do this...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: HamiltonPopular for the same reason as Foucault's power analysis is the deconstruction associated with Jacques Derrida. Nobody knows—or at least nobody has explained—what deconstruction is. i imagine any jewish kid who's been exposed to talmudic study has a pretty good ...

it just looks like there are lots of people wanting some VIX exposure to the long side but not a whole lot of money willing to take the other side of that bet. i know i'm not going to...

blocks move, no problem, but i don't think you're being naive in asking for trades to at least show up on the ticker. cruising the other chat boards it appears the small fry are currently shorting this thing...

all of 75 contracts trades so far today. what happened to all the pent-up interest?

IB (interactive brokers). eom.

it's up and running, sort of. 42 contracts traded on the near, running at about a 3 point premie to "cash".

a = b*(log(a)/log(b)) ?

QuoteOriginally posted by: opmtraderIn the end I was left with only 126 days of datai'm curious, what was your plan for dealing with index recompositions?

QuoteOriginally posted by: CollectorGive people one of your fingers and they want the whole hand lol! had to ask...

since the talk is free, any chance of posting the slides for those of us in different timezones?

QuoteOriginally posted by: Vercingetorix...securities whose overall relative valuation is different from forecast future valuesisn't that, like, every tradable equity instrument at every moment in time? i've never seen a model that predicts future value will be constant, lol.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: Feanorkr-If current & past information are immediately incorporated into current prices, then only new information should cause changes in pricesthat statement seems to incorporate some very very large assumptions, not the least of which is that market participants ...

bumping the topic. is there any further information on when this beast will go live?