Terrapin1

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Terrapin1 replied to the Weight Control board. 20:11

Re: Will-power

I think the point with exercise is that unless you hit 'the wall' it is a waste of time, and your body works hard to conserve fats.
I've known many people who exercise well within their comfort zone and get nowhere,so maybe this is a fast track [more]

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Terrapin1 posted to the Living Below Your Means board. 19:57

Cheap Tablet

Tesco- Acer Iconia B1 £99, but....... £20 cashback which you apply for 30 days after purchase. It's a decent enough piece of kit -gps etc

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Terrapin1 replied to the Communion of Bears board. 19:54

Re: wolesale sales

Yup- I sold my wole.
Nah kidding- this is just the greatest transfer of wealth ever -smoke and mirrors.
I'm optimistic of a substantial dose of reality this summer -of course car loans in the US can last up to 8 years,even if you're one of [more]

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Terrapin1 replied to the Jokers Corner board. 19:47

Re: Gods don't kill people.

T shirt at the car boot yesterday- " Too stupid for science? Try religion"

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Terrapin1 posted to the Technical Analysis board. 21:33

VIX

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$VIX&p=D&b=5&g=...
BB width suggests vol is about to move but probably it will plummet, in the absence of [more]

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Terrapin1 replied to the Technical Analysis board. 08:05

Re: FTSE index maxima and inflation

http://markets.ft.com/ft/markets/reports/FTReport.asp?dockey...
Don't know how to read most of this-but the Euro index must mean something

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Terrapin1 replied to the Technical Analysis board. 08:09

Re: 10 Up Days for FTSE100

So another ten up days then-they have no shame

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Terrapin1 replied to the Options, CFDs & Spread Bets board. 20:07

Re: who is my ultimate counterparty?

Some of those options trades will be made by hapless fund managers who think it's all voodoo but they'd better have a go anyway!
Others will be made by quants who have got something horribly wrong.
It's not easy to make money,and I have [more]

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Terrapin1 replied to the Options, CFDs & Spread Bets board. 11:19

Re: who is my ultimate counterparty?

Options premium has been getting way too cheap for too long in my opinion-but the economy is on crack so who knows what's round the corner. The smug city types think they have risk sorted and so far they have been supported by being given [more]

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Terrapin1 replied to the Options, CFDs & Spread Bets board. 23:22

Re: who is my ultimate counterparty?

Holy Moly -it just occurred to me-what if we were just trading among ourselves? I mean just us on this board......

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Terrapin1 replied to the Options, CFDs & Spread Bets board. 23:21

Re: who is my ultimate counterparty?

Well I wasn't so clever in 2010 as short call spread kicked my ass, so you probably got it back

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Terrapin1 replied to the Technical Analysis board. 21:31

Re: 10 Up Days for FTSE100

Check out May 19 2008- 5 years on and this bull market( mar2009) is long in the tooth- disregarding what the idiots are doing with money borrowed from the next 2 centuries.
History has a habit of repeating

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Terrapin1 replied to the Options, CFDs & Spread Bets board. 20:55

Re: who is my ultimate counterparty?

Bob I was making out like a bandit selling calls and buying puts in 08/09!
We can never know who buys what but I never trade options in isolation and I think many bids/offers are out there as part of more complex trades. On IB you can put in some [more]

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Terrapin1 posted to the Bert's Investor Sanctuary board. 08:12

QE and confidence

http://markdow.tumblr.com/post/50282384938/there-is-zero-cor...
A contentious piece, and not sure I agree-but then I know as much [more]

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Terrapin1 replied to the Technical Analysis board. 08:00

Re: upday/down day count

'Sell in May and go away' is an old market adage that has considerable basis in fact. Over the past 63 years, the average six-month price gain for the S&P 500 from May 1st through October 31st was 0.7%, compared to 6.6% from November through [more]

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Terrapin1 replied to the Technical Analysis board. 19:32

Re: upday/down day count

The market has never been given so much free money- it's zero risk for the crooks that broke our economy,as they know nobody will dare to interfere with the flow of free cash- but I wish I'd realized this 4 years ago- we can no longer return to [more]

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Terrapin1 replied to the Bert's Investor Sanctuary board. 20:58

Re: Gross Says Bond Bull Market Probably Ended A

Thanks DEM I recall seeing them at 75 some while ago- if I want to know anything about money I go somewhere they know about it-and that's very far from the banks!
Yes the insane levels of money creation have distorted markets,and given a free [more]

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Terrapin1 replied to the Economic Markets & Trends board. 20:48

Re: What UKIP did

As for the Terrapin 1 and the working class Thatcher had a far bigger impact on them than Europe by destroying the unions and crucifying manufacturing industry on high interest rates in the 1980s. It was her who brought in the Single market and if [more]

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Terrapin1 posted to the Jokers Corner board. 20:37

A bit like the Masons

Apparently there is a secret bit of apparel for those mountaineers who only wish to be recognised by a fellow climber-
there's even a song about it, called the 'Tie of the Eiger'.

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Terrapin1 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:08

Re: Living on a budget: Readers' stories

Most people who struggle to budget are fantasists. Their ego needs the massage of a car*, mobile phone and SKY, because nobody has taught them a better way to live-which means stopping thinking about yourself 100% of the time!
I read recently [more]