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13 years ago @ Mercenary Trader - Volatility Lambada · 1 reply · +1 points

Keep an eye on VXZ and VXV to see how option premiums are bid further out in time-- they haven't been hit as hard b/c everyone expects this big move into October, similar to the big move everyone was expecting into September

13 years ago @ Mercenary Trader - Volatility Lambada · 3 replies · +1 points

the vxx is structurally flawed and it's getting hit by the VIX futures contango as well as the collapse in oct vix futures.

13 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Four Minutes In The Mo... · 0 replies · +1 points

And that is why you make sure your house has a big shower.

13 years ago @ Paul Kedrosky: Infecti... - Gary Shilling Hearts t... · 0 replies · +1 points

An economist with no bow tie?

14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - New Orleans Rock &lsqu... · 0 replies · +1 points

"Even with all the well known New Orleans spirit they haven’t figured out how to show up in force for an early Sunday morning marathon. "

They're still hungover from the Saint's win, Mardi Gras, and the rest of February.

If you're looking for spirit, come back out for the Red Dress Run in August!

14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - StartUp Visa Act Intro... · 1 reply · +1 points

There's a really good debate going on over at hacker news about the merits of this bill. It might provide some angles of the argument (from both sides) that haven't yet been considered-- def a read:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148707

14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Speech Recognition Is ... · 2 replies · +1 points

Take a lateral step here. There's a lot of video content on the internet that has a very hard time being "searchable." I'm waiting for an A / V spider to crawl through youtube, converting speech to text, and indexing it on search. I don't think it exists yet, but it will.

14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - My Steel Balls By Mark... · 0 replies · +1 points

Do note that a simple misspelling of the artist's last name makes the piece that much more... inspiring.

14 years ago @ Paul Kedrosky: Infecti... - Show Me a Stupid Risk,... · 0 replies · +1 points

i haven't laughed that hard in quite some time.

14 years ago @ Don Dodge on The Next ... - TechStars Boston debut... · 0 replies · +1 points

I am absolutely blown away (and my wife more so) by HaveMyShift. Especially useful for franchises such as SBUX that have interchangeable positions.