Options, Economics, Futures, Politics and a bit of the Barr Family scattered in between

Ryan, where have you gone?

May 20, 2009 by Ryan Barr

I’m still here, just very busy. I switched up my computers and didn’t have my easy blogging add-on installed in firefox. I installed it today, so maybe I’ll add a few more posts every now and again – no promises

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This is fantastic… Tea Party Time

April 7, 2009 by Ryan Barr

This was on my mailbox today:
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half the people get the [...]

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An intermidiate top?

April 5, 2009 by Ryan Barr

Possibly, and as a result I sold my papermoney calls on Friday. I’m still holding the SKF and SPY puts. I’ve updated the papermoney tables with the trade. Sorry for the weak analysis over the past week or so. I’m swamped with babysitting our son, and keeping up with school work. I’ll try to get [...]

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Hypocrisy now

April 4, 2009 by Ryan Barr

Let the hypocrisy begin. President Obama and his administration are now attempting to circumvent the pay caps and other restrictions imposed by Congress on firms receiving government money.

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Heading higher?

April 1, 2009 by Ryan Barr

Who knows any more It looks to me as though we are getting close to a very important cross roads here in the /NQ and /ES. I’ve jumped into a slew of SPY Calls to balance off the Puts that are open right now. The papermoney page is up to date.
The futures are [...]

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What do Macro-economics and Mathmatical Methods for Management Decisions have in common?

April 1, 2009 by Ryan Barr

They are the classes I started last night @ Kellogg.
Macro was very interesting. Given the current climate, it must be a tough subject to teach as you almost need to throw the text out the windows. We are going to focus on the frameworks, bringing in some current events and concepts. It should be a [...]

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Amazing… Simply Amazing – AIG dumping trades at a loss – Transfers the wealth to counter parties…

March 29, 2009 by Ryan Barr

This is a must read… If the actual data ends up supporting this, the entire establishment should be locked up. This is simply amazing. AIG is acting as a funnel for our taxpayer dollars to other banks through massive unwinds – enormous, total portfolio unwinds. This is like selling a $100 bill to your friend for $10. Bad deal for you (A.I.G -> Taxpayer) great deal for your friend (BAC, GS etc…)

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