I spent a few hours looking at this this afternoon and couldn't figure out a way to hold BTC in the same brokerage account as the future. Barring that, the separate accounts have to assume you have huge exposure. One account has you long, and the other short. In the OP's example, I would go long one...

snedgar wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:46 pm Hold my chilled martini glass in one hand
Think really hard about dry vermouth
Bombay Sapphire swirled over ice in the other hand
Strain into glass
Enjoy with my medium rare rib eye steak

Have we met? Are you Somedude’s wife?

I am not Tortoise, but IL -- HS district going full in person April 5th. Restaurants 50% or 50 people. Fans will be allowed at baseball games. Are you saying IL is not moving fast enough? I am actually surprised how fast things are starting to move. A month from now ? They are thinking about maybe ...

It is fascinating isn't it? I grew up in Texas and my parents, while not saying so directly, always looked at things with a critical eye and had no fear of having beliefs that went against the mainstream. However, about 5 years ago my wife met her biological mother/family who all live in California...

Tossup. The fear is thick in WA and OR.

West Coast, Hawaii, Illinois or NY.

Hard to tell.

If I had to bet, Hawaii. Even though it is suicidal.

I have 6 weeks reserved for late May. I’m not holding my breath.

I had a Margarita with my prime rib at the Texas Roadhouse tonight.

Her: Would you like a kicker?

Me: Um... Sure.

Her (cute blonde) : Sorry about the kicker, we had to do it ghetto tonight.

Me: Ghetto is just my style.

I was in Flora Bama last week. For the uninitiated, it is one of the seven wonders of the modern world. But... I suspected it was a shots and beer and umbrella drink bar. Much to my surprise, the gal next to me ordered a Martini, and I watched the Southern Gal behind the bar make a mighty fine Marti...

It's not just us racist whites you have to worry about.
The freaking Indians are taking over the country.

sophie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:53 am
Once those titles are out of print, look for someone to make them available as online pdfs. I hope that happens!

Oh, there are places you can go!

[Apparently printings after the 1970s or so changed to "Chinese man". I was in Sonoma, CA a few years ago before the fires. And the owner of the steakhouse I was at was pushing some port on me. He said that he had been at a convention and a Chinaman had the best port in the place, so he b...

It might be a good backup alibi if you are going to fund your meth habit stealing copper pipes and wiring out of abandoned houses.
So... yeah. Good idea.

I bet Harry Browne didn’t have a solution to this one. I would really like to buy a bunch of gold tomorrow but i don’t think I’m going to be in town to take delivery. At least it’s possible that I won’t be. No way am I leaving it to the wife to receive it. It’s not that she’s flaky, but if somethin...

Did those orgs just disappear? Is there any evidence they're still around other than a few BLM signs or pins? Was it just the communists funding these orgs to help oust Trump (along with a vote by mail fraud scheme)? Antifa is still busing burning Portland down every night. It just doesn't make the...

In the high rise condo area of Cartagena Colombia I would see tons of oldsters (expats?) being wheeled through the parks and waterfront by cute 20 year old gals. The gals would meet up and gossip and feed pudding to their charges and carry on. I got the feeling it would be about as inexpensive and d...

I still re-read "Oh, the places you'll go!" every few years.

Wellesley (non-global) is a wonderful fund. For a long time, I’ve been tempted to employ a vp of my select indy dividend stocks with VCIT (Vanguard intermediate corporate bond etf) as a kind of homemade wellesley. Wellesley and a little bit of gold is about as simple as it gets. I'm working with a ...

You know you've found a field of endeavour you're genuinely interested in when you continue to read the textbook after your courses are done. There's a whole swathe of material we didn't cover such as the use of special purposes registers that enable SSE and AVX extensions. Super interesting stuff!...

You know you've found a field of endeavour you're genuinely interested in when you continue to read the textbook after your courses are done. There's a whole swathe of material we didn't cover such as the use of special purposes registers that enable SSE and AVX extensions. Super interesting stuff!...

Tortoise wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:44 pm If the Fed buys enough Treasury bonds with printed money, won't that keep rates low even if inflation is high?

... and other good points ...

Thank you. I keep forgetting about both sides of the scale.

I think even Volcker commented that there was no way rates could be raised like they were. The federal budget to service the debt would destroy the government. The market crash would potentially leave seventy million people retiring in abject poverty with an epic stock market crash (401ks and pensi...

While I don’t have any evidence that this is what is going on, the digital dollar feels very much like the US Treasury is evaluating bitcoin as a threat and pondering adopting the tried and true Microsoft strategy of Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. Which proved incredibly effective.

I've been intrigued by the discussions. I'm looking forward to see how and if it moves forward. While the digital dollar would certainly not be a replacement for folding money (Or any other truly anonymous transaction) it seems like it could be a large improvement over USD debit cards or other elect...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-u-punishing-itself-halts-saudi-arms-080003087--finance.html At least he's anti-establishment when it comes to our sick relationship with Saudi Ara..... Nevermind. Biden Won’t Penalize Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi’s Killing, Fearing Relations Breach The dec...

I didn’t specifically ask for 2021s; that’s just what the dealer had in stock. If the vast majority of bullion coins in circulation are from previous years, I wonder why I was given a 2021 both times. Just an interesting coincidence, maybe? My first thought was that maybe no one is selling and the ...

... - Basic binary and hexadecimcal arithmetic. This also included conversion from one base to the other. - Writing programs in assembly - Explaining the dynamics of CPU caches, how they're organized, and how to optimize code to minimize misses - Processor pipelining - Explaining compilation, linki...