Members-Only Options Webinar: Matt Amberson of Orats.com with Casey Platt: “Earnings Plays and Options Behavior”

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SMBU’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each Tuesday, SMBU hosts an options webinar—the Options Tribe—during which veteran options traders and experts in the world of options trading share live presentations. Next week, Matt Amberson of Options Research and Technology Services (ORATS), joined by Casey Platt, explains how earnings plays can be identified through knowledge of the behavior of options around earnings announcements.

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Bonds Flock to E-Trading – Markets Media

Bonds Flock to E-Trading01.10.2014 December is a typically slow month for bond trading, but a significant portion of that trading takes place on electronic trading venues because they offer the best chance for completing trades.“December is an interesting time of year. Clients and dealers are winding down as we head into the end of the year, and closing up their books,” said Alex Sedgwick, head of research at MarketAxess. “Most companies are closing up their books and want to go into the end of the year flat.”With the exception of December 2008, which was a period of aggressive off-loading of risk following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, December volumes are typically more than 15% lower than the rest of the year.Alex Sedgwick, …

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December is a typically slow month for bond trading, but a significant portion of that trading takes place on electronic trading venues because they offer the best chance for completing trades.

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Use It Until It Breaks?

Jerry writes in:“I was reading on another blog about replacing things that work with better versions of the same item like clothes hangers. To me, it makes more sense to just keep using something until it actually breaks, then replace it, but that’s just my sense of wanting to get every last drop out of something I put my money into. What do you think?“Although Jerry didn’t mention the blog article he was referencing, I would guess that he was talking about “Does It Ever Make Sense To Replace Something That Is Functioning Properly?” over at One Frugal Girl.Anyway, Jerry makes a valid point and asks a good question. At first glance, it makes good frugal sense to continue to use an item …

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“I was reading on another blog about replacing things that work with better versions of the same item like clothes hangers. To me, it makes more sense to just keep using something until it actually breaks, then replace it, but that’s just my sense of wanting to get every last drop out of something I put my money into. What do you think?“

Although Jerry didn’t mention the blog article he was referencing, I would guess that he was talking about “Does It Ever Make Sense To Replace Something That Is Functioning Properly?” over at One Frugal Girl.

Anyway, Jerry makes a valid point and asks a good question. At first glance, it makes good frugal sense to continue to use an item until it is no longer functional. Otherwise, as Jerry says, you’re not extracting the full value from that item. I am completely on board with using an item until it’s no longer usable.

The question, to me, really is about replacement. I do not think that the best time to replace an item is when it is no longer functional. In that situation, you ideally need something to perform that task that is functional, which means that you have a pretty small timeframe to make a purchase.

Ideally, when you’re buying a new item, you’ll take advantage of two things.

First, you’ll have a research opportunity. You can spend at least a bit of time figuring out what the best version of the item is as well as perhaps the best “bang for the buck” version of the item is. You can figure out things like that from reading Consumer Reports or other reputable publications and asking around in your social network.

This is an opportunity to really figure out what it is that you’re buying and isolate it down to a few options that will really work and solve your problem.

Next, you can look for sales and discounts for those specific items. This can take time, but it’s well worth it, especially if you’re shopping for a pricier item. If you can shave $50 off of the cost of the item you’re buying, it’s well worth a few internet searches every few weeks for a while or checking out sales flyers.

The end result is that you wind up with a quality item that will last for a very reasonable price.

The problem is that this process takes time. Although you can do the research fairly quickly if necessary, it does take time to wait on a sale.

If you’re buying out of necessity, you can’t wait for a sale. You’ve pushed yourself into a situation where an immediate buy borders on necessary.

Thus, for me, I try hard to identify items that may fail in the fairly near future, but still have life left in them. Those are the items that I focus on for the buying process.

If a sale on the right item happens to come up before I need a new version of that item, I’ll still go ahead and pull the trigger. Then, I’ll take the new item and store it for a while until the old one fails. I’ve done this with blenders, umbrellas, and pots and pans, among other items.

This works even for inexpensive items, like clothes hangers. If you’re like me, you’ll eventually bend a wire hanger enough so that it doesn’t hold an article of clothing well or you’ll accidentally break a plastic one on occasion. Thus, if I ever notice that our hanger count seems to be getting low, I’ll just simply watch for a sale on them and add them to the mix.

Occasionally, I’m still pushed into situations where I have to make a quick replacement purchase, but I don’t like to be in that situation. A little bit of advance planning, as described above, can help you avoid it most of the time.

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What early retirement means when you’re too young to retire

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Note: In this post I discussed some of the aspects about my former career while I was still working. One of my problems was “lack of adequate replacement”. Like some people have pointed out, most people need something to do. However, I would point out that this does not need to be a job. It could be taking care of a bonsai tree; or it could be working as a gardener. In terms of the suggestions below, they are remarkably constant. The only thing that’s changed in the two years that have passed is that I no longer foresee starting a bookstore.

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What does early retirement mean for those who chose to save so intensely and early for retirement and essentially had enough money to stop working around age 30? This is a question I have been asking myself and for which there does not seem to be any conventional solutions.

In most cases, at least as far as I understand from reading Smartmoney magazine, early retirement means spending more time playing golf, being home with the kids, or seeing the world. None of this seems particularly appealing to me (I don’t have kids) right now. In 15 years, maybe, but not now.

Conventionally, I should be doing what most phds with a few years of experience do, that is, try to work myself to death in the desperate attempt to get tenure. Except for the death part, that is actually what I still do even though I in principle could quit. However, having seen first hand where this road can lead I must admit that I am no longer so sold on the idea as I was 5 years ago. Here’s my cost benefit analysis: costs: 95% of the students, grant writing, committees, relatively poor pay, forced mobility, department politics, and did I mention, 95% of the students – benefits: making my own schedule, 5% of the students, and doing research. I think having the freedom to take half the day off on Monday and work 16 hours on Tuesday is overrated given that it comes with a constant pressure to perform. It feels equally nice to work 9-5 and know that you are not supposed to work outside of those hours. Call me naive, but I have finally realized that 95% of the students at higher ed do not really seem to want to be there. Some professors live for the enthusiasm for the remaining 5%, but I don’t think the 1 in 20 ratio is high enough for me. Research is interesting and frustrating. Interesting because everything you do is a “first” e.g. you have discovered something that no humans have known before. Frustrating because there is a ton of dead ends that must be explored. It is really 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. Just imagine trying to come up with something creative when you know that in all likelihood it will fail. Then repeat and do it again. In addition, most researchers, myself included, are working on things that are only interesting 5 other people in the world. There’s a slight shot at fame. For instance, I have published a good 20 papers. Forsooth, you can find them in university libraries around them world, even! However, 30 years from now, I will just be a set of initials in some dusty journal that will only be read by some poor suffering grad student. I am after all not working on curing cancer, so while somewhat meaningful, my work is perhaps not terribly important [except for those 5 persons in the world]. It’s not a terribly bad life though. One gets to influence events in the sense of deciding where thousands and even millions of tax payer/alumni money gets spent. There’s all the free traveling to conferences etc. I have been to 14 countries so far and never paid a dime. It’s not exactly a luxury vacation, but the similarities are probably larger than the differences. However, I wonder whether I am going to spend the rest of my life doing this. If I do, I’m projected to pass $1,000,000 when I’m 40, but what am I going to spend that money on anyway? The law of diminishing returns of extra dollars is knocking on my door already. There is also significant opportunity cost. Maybe I will be wondering what if I had done something differently. The question is, what is the alternative. I think it is exceedingly important to live a life of no regrets.

Okay, so I could in principle retire, but I haven’t. Why not? One problem is that I have not found anything sufficiently meaningful to replace a full fledged career with. In contrast to a job a career should be a means of self-actualization and I tell you if you actually have a career goal in mind, this works out quite well. If you don’t, then it turns into a job fairly quickly, whoops!

Financially independent is a better description of my situation. Maybe people aren’t meant to retire this early. It’s almost like breaking the law of the rat-race e.g. “you still have so many years left in you”.

Perhaps Beingfrugal.net‘s son’s mom said it best when it what described as re-tirement as in changing tires during a pit stop. Yeah, I might want to change my tires.

Here’s my list of possible re-tirings.

1. Start a PF blog (I have previously thought of becoming a tech writer and this seems to fit the bill).


2. Start a bookstore.


3. Buy a small farm, breed an army of sheep and take over the world.


4. Sell my soul to Wall Street.


5. Become a watch maker.

I have started on 1. The question is whether I can make a career out of it in the traditional sense of a career e.g. something that takes up much of the day and keeps me active while being somewhat meaningful and self-actualizing.

As you might have surmised I am not really sure about this. It turns out that it is a lot harder to figure out what to do with financial independence than to achieve it in the first place. It is definitely something I should have thought of earlier in the process.

What would you do if you did not have to work again?

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Melinda Gates: U.S. Education System Gets a C+

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a private juggernaut when it comes to education research and policy. In recent months, as Congress has faced education-related issues ranging from the fiscal cliff and sequestration to a failing to reauthorize federal student loan rates, the government shut down and impending retooling of the Higher Education Act (HEA), the Gates foundation has sponsored dozens of research projects designed to offer guidance as to the future shape of Higher Ed in the United States. At the forefront is Melinda Gates. According to the Associated Press, Gates, easily one of the most influential women in American education, said she gives the U.S. public school system a C-plus, but adds there are spots of improvement that give her optimism…

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a private juggernaut when it comes to education research and policy. In recent months, as Congress has faced education-related issues ranging from the fiscal cliff and sequestration to a failing to reauthorize federal student loan rates, the government shut down and impending retooling of the Higher Education Act (HEA), the Gates foundation has sponsored dozens of research projects designed to offer guidance as to the future shape of Higher Ed in the United States. At the forefront is Melinda Gates.

According to the Associated Press, Gates, easily one of the most influential women in American education, said she gives the U.S. public school system a C-plus, but adds there are spots of improvement that give her optimism for the future.

Gates said she bases her assessment on international comparisons of student achievement and on the fact that only a fraction of American high school students are ready for college when they complete their studies.

“I see pockets of improvements. The neat thing about the pockets of improvements is they’re getting larger all the time and they’re across the nation,” she told The Associated Press during an interview this week in her Seattle office overlooking the Space Needle at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Those pockets are growing in places like New Orleans and in Florida, New York, New Orleans and Colorado, Gates added, because districts are talking to each other and sharing their best practices.

For the past decade, the Gates Foundation has studied education, influenced public policy and spent billions of dollars toward improving student outcomes by supporting education reform and demanding better results. Since 2000, the foundation has spent about $5 billion on education grants and scholarships.

Their focus has influenced the national agenda, as the U.S. Department of Education has pushed for similar reforms such as adoption of the national academic standards known as the common core, as well as insisting on improvement in state teacher-evaluation systems.

The foundation has given some states money and assistance to prepare their applications for federal grant programs and some top officials in Washington, D.C., are former employees at the foundation in Washington state.

Some see the foundation as a critic of American teachers because of their emphasis on teacher evaluations, but Gates said that impression is wrong. She hopes teachers see the foundation as partners in figuring out how to help them do their jobs.

“We fundamentally believe in teachers. My gosh, they’re incredible,” she said, after a day listening to 110 teachers from around the nation compare notes and talk about what they need to improve at a gathering at the Seattle foundation.

At a forum for teachers and foundation staff on Tuesday morning, educators talked about needing more time outside the classroom for training and collaboration.

“Time is a great barrier to the many innovative things we would all like to do as teachers,” said JoAnn Miller, a biology teacher in Oconto Falls, Wis., who was one of three educators sitting on the podium with Gates.

The relatively new teacher, who came into the classroom seven years ago after serving in the U.S. Navy, would like to see protracted mentorship programs for teachers and more time to work together on self-evaluations.

Gates said the foundation is conducting experiments in Fresno, Calif., and Bridgeport, Conn., to see how districts can give teachers more planning and training time.

She said teachers need some of that time for learning about the new national academic standards known as the common core, which have been adopted by 45 states and are considered by Gates to be one of the most important education initiatives right now.

Also on the top of the foundation’s agenda is improving teacher evaluation systems and professional development. The foundation’s third main education initiative involves helping teachers use technology to support their work, such as online forums for sharing lesson plans.

“I know the difference a great teacher can make,” said Gates, who has three children, one each in elementary, middle and high school.

One of the foundation’s first big education initiatives focused on creating smaller schools out of large comprehensive high schools.

The widespread and expensive experiment was considered mostly a failure by education experts, but Gates said the small schools initiative helped the foundation learn what was really important: the teacher at the front of the classroom.

That’s what led to years of research on what makes a great teacher and how schools can use various evaluation methods to study teachers and help them improve. That initiative is now influencing many states in redesigning their teacher evaluation systems, at the insistence of the federal government.

The foundation also has invested money into charter school networks and continues to support charter schools as laboratories for innovation, Gates said.

“You get these pinpoints of light from charter schools,” she said, adding that parents can evaluate their own children’s schools by looking for successful reforms first tried in charter schools.

Gates said she is very excited to see charter schools finally coming to her home state. Last November, Washington voters approved adding up to 40 of the independent public schools within five years.

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Gene found to foster synapse formation in the brain

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Gene found to foster synapse formation in the brain

Researchers say they have found that a gene already implicated in human speech disorders and epilepsy is also needed for vocalizations and synapse formation in mice. The finding, they say, adds to scientific understanding of how language develops, as well as the way synapses — the connections among brain cells that enable us to think — are formed.

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Oct. 31, 2013 — Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have found that a gene already implicated in human speech disorders and epilepsy is also needed for vocalizations and synapse formation in mice. The finding, they say, adds to scientific understanding of how language develops, as well as the way synapses — the connections among brain cells that enable us to think — are formed. A description of their experiments appears in Science Express on Oct. 31.A group led by Richard Huganir, Ph.D., director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, set out to investigate genes involved in synapse formation. Gek-Ming Sia, Ph.D., a research associate in Huganir’s laboratory, first screened hundreds of human genes for their effects on lab-grown mouse brain cells. When one gene, SRPX2, was turned up higher than normal, it caused the brain cells to erupt with new synapses, Sia found.When Huganir’s team injected fetal mice with an SRPX2-blocking compound, the mice showed fewer synapses than normal mice even as adults, the researchers found. In addition, when SRPX2-deficient mouse pups were separated from their mothers, they did not emit high-pitched distress calls as other pups do, indicating they lacked the rodent equivalent of early language ability.Other researchers’ analyses of the human genome have found that mutations in SRPX2 are associated with language disorders and epilepsy, and when Huganir’s team injected the human SRPX2 with the same mutations into the fetal mice, they also had deficits in their vocalization as young pups.Another research group at Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée in France had previously shown that SRPX2 interacts with FoxP2, a gene that has gained wide attention for its apparently crucial role in language ability. Huganir’s team confirmed this, showing that FoxP2 controls how much protein the SRPX2 gene makes and may affect language in this way. …

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Nurturing may protect kids from brain changes linked to poverty

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Nurturing may protect kids from brain changes linked to poverty

Researchers have identified changes in the brains of children growing up in poverty. Those changes can lead to lifelong problems like depression, learning difficulties and limitations in the ability to cope with stress. But the study showed that the extent of those changes was influenced strongly by whether parents were attentive and nurturing.

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Oct. 28, 2013 — Growing up in poverty can have long-lasting, negative consequences for a child. But for poor children raised by parents who lack nurturing skills, the effects may be particularly worrisome, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.Among children living in poverty, the researchers identified changes in the brain that can lead to lifelong problems like depression, learning difficulties and limitations in the ability to cope with stress. The study showed that the extent of those changes was influenced strongly by whether parents were nurturing.The good news, according to the researchers, is that a nurturing home life may offset some of the negative changes in brain anatomy among poor children. And the findings suggest that teaching nurturing skills to parents — particularly those living in poverty — may provide a lifetime benefit for their children.The study is published online Oct. 28 and will appear in the November issue of JAMA Pediatrics.Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the researchers found that poor children with parents who were not very nurturing were likely to have less gray and white matter in the brain. Gray matter is closely linked to intelligence, while white matter often is linked to the brain’s ability to transmit signals between various cells and structures.The MRI scans also revealed that two key brain structures were smaller in children who were living in poverty: the amygdala, a key structure in emotional health, and the hippocampus, an area of the brain that is critical to learning and memory.”We’ve known for many years from behavioral studies that exposure to poverty is one of the most powerful predictors of poor developmental outcomes for children,” said principal investigator Joan L. Luby, MD, a Washington University child psychiatrist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. …

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How traders learn to trade

When you want to learn some new skill, if just general instructions are given and no specific steps explained or demonstrated, it is unlikely to help a person learn the skill. That is why apprentice based model of learning has been around since human beings first established society along the banks of Nile river.When I worked in advertising , I studied every single learning theory. You can only create good communication if you understand how consumer learn and process information. There is overwhelming body of research which shows skills are only learned by demonstration and by practice. That learning theory has universal application.The reason for that is skills are processed in procedural memory part of the brain. Procedural memory can not be built by just reading …

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When you want to learn some new skill, if just general instructions are given and no specific steps explained or demonstrated, it is unlikely to help a person learn the skill. That is why apprentice based model of learning has been around since human beings first established society along the banks of Nile river.

When I worked in advertising , I studied every single learning theory. You can only create good communication if you understand how consumer learn and process information. There is overwhelming body of research which shows skills are only learned by demonstration and by practice. That learning theory has universal application.

The reason for that is skills are processed in procedural memory part of the brain. Procedural memory can not be built by just reading instructions and providing general guideline like saying everyone must develop their own trading style, or saying do not follow others, or become a hermit or psychology is the real key to trading. There is zero evidence to show these kind of things build procedural memory.

Procedural memory as name suggests is memory about how to perform a process. To trade you need procedural memory specific to trading a setup or style of trading like growth investing or value investing or swing trading.

If you want to learn trading follow the apprentice model. Work under someone who knows trading , wash dishes for them. Observe how they select stocks, where they enter, where they put stops, where they exit, how much do they risk and so on. Those process oriented details are extremely critical to learning to trade. Absent that you can spend years and you will never learn trading.

As a new trader, or new to a method or instrument unless you work from some one else template, you will find it difficult to learn.

Let us say you are not familiar with options and you want to learn to trade option, ad if someone gives you general advice saying buy when IV is low and sell when IV is high or saying never buy calls or any other general coverall statement. How useful is that. What you need is step by step hand holding. You want to see an actual trade and broken in to process step by step and you want to see it executed hundreds of time in real life situation to learn. That will help you learn faster than any other way to learn.

The same thing can be said about Triple ETF or any other instrument. And same thing applies if you want to trade a new style like say value investing or some other approach.

Once you master someones approach then you take it, innovate around it and build your own method around it. That is how learning works for vast majority of people.

Unspecific trading advice without step by step breakdown is not worth even one cent…. And it is available all over the place with hundreds of oft repeated aphorism and rules. They sound good but they do not enhance your trading ability.

Think about it and just don’t get influenced by any and everything you read. You will see some people just get quickly influenced by every new flavor of the week trading idea or aphorism….

Learning theories have not changed since civilization was formed and they are not going to change in our lifetime…

If a trade is based on valid logic and well thought out market structure, it is going to work whether you tell everyone about it or secretively execute it or sit in a cave and do it….

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Psychologists report new insights on human brain, consciousness

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Psychologists report new insights on human brain, consciousness

A study by psychologists is a step toward neuroscience research on consciousness. “The difference between being conscious and unconscious is a bit like the difference between driving from Los Angeles to New York in a straight line versus having to cover the same route hopping on and off several buses that force you to take a ‘zig-zag’ route and stop in several places,” said lead author of the study.

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Oct. 17, 2013 — UCLA psychologists have used brain-imaging techniques to study what happens to the human brain when it slips into unconsciousness. Their research, published Oct. 17 in the online journal PLOS Computational Biology, is an initial step toward developing a scientific definition of consciousness.”In terms of brain function, the difference between being conscious and unconscious is a bit like the difference between driving from Los Angeles to New York in a straight line versus having to cover the same route hopping on and off several buses that force you to take a ‘zig-zag’ route and stop in several places,” said lead study author Martin Monti, an assistant professor of psychology and neurosurgery at UCLA.Monti and his colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the flow of information in the brains of 12 healthy volunteers changed as they lost consciousness under anesthesia with propofol. The participants ranged in age from 18 to 31 and were evenly divided between men and women.The psychologists analyzed the “network properties” of the subjects’ brains using a branch of mathematics known as graph theory, which is often used to study air-traffic patterns, information on the Internet and social groups, among other topics.”It turns out that when we lose consciousness, the communication among areas of the brain becomes extremely inefficient, as if suddenly each area of the brain became very distant from every other, making it difficult for information to travel from one place to another,” Monti said.The finding shows that consciousness does not “live” in a particular place in our brain but rather “arises from the mode in which billions of neurons communicate with one another,” he said.When patients suffer severe brain damage and enter a coma or a vegetative state, Monti said, it is very possible that the sustained damage impairs their normal brain function and the emergence of consciousness in the same manner as was seen by the life scientists in the healthy volunteers under anesthesia.”If this were indeed the case, we could imagine in the future using our technique to monitor whether interventions are helping patients recover consciousness,” he said.”It could, however, also be the case that losing consciousness because of brain injury affects brain function through different mechanisms,” said Monti, whose research team is currently addressing this question in another study.”As profoundly defining of our mind as consciousness is, without having a scientific definition of this phenomenon, it is extremely difficult to study,” Monti noted. This study, he said, marks an initial step toward conducting neuroscience research on consciousness.The research was conducted at Belgium’s University Hospital of Liege.Monti’s expertise includes cognitive neuroscience, the relationship between language and thought, and how consciousness is lost and recovered after severe brain injury. He was part of a team of American and Israeli brain scientists who used fMRI on former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in January 2013 to assess his brain responses.Surprisingly, Sharon, who was presumed to be in a vegetative state since suffering a brain hemorrhage in 2006, showed significant brain activity, Monti and his colleagues reported.The former prime minister was scanned to assess the extent and quality of his brain processing, using methods recently developed by Monti and his colleagues. The scientists found subtle but encouraging signs of consciousness.

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