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Saturday, June 15, 2013

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We had a cluster failure today we need to return back from 2 weeks (May 16, 2013).

That means anything done between 16 May and 1 June is gone.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Short Covered Put


 A short covered put is an options strategy that involves both stock and an options contract. The trader sells stock, and then sells a put contract, and then waits for the options contract to be exercised or to expire. If the options contract is exercised (at any time for US options, and at expiration for European options) the trader will buy the stock (from the holder of the put contract) at the strike price. In a short covered put, the put can be an in the money or at the money put, where the profit would be the premium received for the put, or an out of the money put, which allows for profit to be made on both the premium and the difference between the stock and strike prices.
Sell stock Sell a single put contract Wait for the put to be exercised or to expire to realize the profit As shown on the risk / reward chart (view the full size chart), the risk of a short covered put is high, as there is no protection if the stock price moves significantly upward (against the stock trade). The risk of a short covered put is calculated as :
Maximum Risk = Unlimited
Loss = Price of Stock - Purchase Price of Stock - Premium Received
The reward of a short covered put is limited to the premium received for the put (for an at the money, or in the money put), or to the difference between the stock and strike prices plus the premium received for the put (for an out of the money put). The profit of a short covered put is calculated as :
Maximum Profit = Limited
Profit = Purchase Price of Stock - Strike Price + Premium Received

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Perfection without (Board short) Bikini flaunting body



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You must show off the no time these destinations, and prepare your body.

It's time to become crunch (literally) — Memorial Day weekend near future and put your bikini off, soon appears, ready or not?. So at least your long weekend holiday in one stone two birds can kill by being able to operate it, find the work ahead. If would prefer if there is an activity for getting fit and our destination fast on a jaunt Hamptons or St. Martin, hanging or enjoy hiking in the rain forest to escape the long break 10-check-out after the jump»
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Why: to go back to the Hamptons, urban retreat is the perfect spot. Indeed, it offers great restaurants, also exhale breath and soul cycles of the outpost. Everybody everybody to the Hamptons has caught the bug spit out breath and soul cycle who also head of summer. Soul cycles in fashion, pump-your spin class like exhale Pilates core fusion Bale and offers yoga classes. If they return might be bit Hamptons vacation, probably doesn't care.
Destinations: in a ???? tone appeals stylish Hamptonite audience 16 rooms and suites and three cottages, decorated in Scandinavian design. Beach bike ride from the village of this one, owns hotels in 20 Sweden entrepreneurs around the world without spending a lot of cash (free beach cruiser loaners available) from you to do some rotation. Further, the Buddha Garden held in yoga class hotel.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Perfection without (Board short) Bikini flaunting body

Wet Republic at MGM GrandYou must show off the no time these destinations, and prepare your body.

It's time to become crunch (literally) — Memorial Day weekend near future and put your bikini off, soon appears, ready or not?. So at least your long weekend holiday in one stone two birds can kill by being able to operate it, find the work ahead. If would prefer if there is an activity for getting fit and our destination fast on a jaunt Hamptons or St. Martin, hanging or enjoy hiking in the rain forest to escape the long break 10-check-out after the jump»

Bicycles at C/O The Maidstone -- East HamptonWithin the ???? tone - East Hampton's bike

Why: to go back to the Hamptons, urban retreat is the perfect spot. Indeed, it offers great restaurants, also exhale breath and soul cycles of the outpost. Everybody everybody to the Hamptons has caught the bug spit out breath and soul cycle who also head of summer. Soul cycles in fashion, pump-your spin class like exhale Pilates core fusion Bale and offers yoga classes. If they return might be bit Hamptons vacation, probably doesn't care.

Destinations: in a ???? tone appeals stylish Hamptonite audience 16 rooms and suites and three cottages, decorated in Scandinavian design. Beach bike ride from the village of this one, owns hotels in 20 Sweden entrepreneurs around the world without spending a lot of cash (free beach cruiser loaners available) from you to do some rotation. Further, the Buddha Garden held in yoga class hotel.

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The Yoga Platform at the Lapa Rios Ecolodge & Wildlife ReserveLapa Rios Ecolodge wildlife in it's Yoga platform

Why: in this small Central American country hundreds of diverse habitats, and easily without having to move, beaches, eco-tourism, long distance and enjoy the adventure of the outdoors in the same trip. Geography, ranging from rugged coastline to the bustling infinite variety is town volcanoes, misty cloud forests. Costa Rica is known to have a particularly great spots for hiking, windsurfing.

Destinations: is the original luxury eco lodge is a remote coastal Lapa Rios, the Osa Peninsula rainforest Costa Rica. This is the opposite of the beach resort of Cancun style — and learn about Rios come guest, savor the finest lapa spectacular environment, sustainable tourism, and naturally reconnect. Hotel offers hiking trails 1000 acres of rainforest, yoga classes, and is a 10-minute walk from the beach.

Lapa Rios Ecolodge photos»

Fitness Equipment at the Beach at the Loews Santa MonicaFitness equipment-Loews Santa Monica Beach

Why: offers travellers think their l. a. when Los Angeles (after all, everyone has a great shape be) active people often scene-y nightclub, iconic Rodeo Drive, and upscale restaurant image. From the mountain Beach boasts activities such as urban, swimming, surfing, hiking. However, scattered and we, rollerblading, hit the Boardwalk of Venice Beach () rent Rollerblades there also you recommend. Celebrating bikes, psychics, the promenade must-see, crowded the magician — rollerblading is a great exercise! Muscle men iron pump excited about Super Tan (, Arnold Schwarzenegger got his start) to expand the famous beaches of the muscle.

Destinations: It is opposite the beach is set on Santa Monica Loews, fitness equipment, sand. But you can visit the gym enough rollerblading, swimming, surfing (I would be surprised if that happened, we never know), Hotel — La may spin classes Yoga aerobics studio by the fitness center spacious one, best of Sun-drenched, free fruit, water, fruit enhanced, and locker room, sauna and steam room. Technogym cardio equipment has a personal screen TV, an iPod docking station.

More photos of the Loews Santa Monica»

Pool at The Westin Dawn Beach Resort & Spa, St. MaartenPool, Westin Dawn Beach Resort & Spa, St. Maarten

Why: selected Beach about 40 small island — split into Netherlands and France — is your body an ideal spot to perfection while simultaneously showcasing it ( fault are ready to really you is actually St. some Martin nude beach, er, assets). Those jump start their vacation fun — known workout curing ?? adventure sports, parasailing, Jet skiing, windsurfing etc. You can get from how to hold dear life tone legs, arms, abs, and Jet skiing!

Destinations: is the best place to enjoy Westin Dawn Beach Resort & Spa in all rental they can sail to the wind kayak Beach right bike boat. Run around the island, this hotel also offers special ready, set, RunWestin program, and lead the guests group. For those who jog solo offers running map, and an expansive fitness center, hotel.

See more photos of the beach resort & Spa the Westin dawn»

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Cardiobrief blog says NYT story on screening for student athletes “falls short in so many respects”

There may be no more horrifying medical catastrophe than the sudden death of a young athlete on the playing field in front of a large crowd of friends, family, and community. But it’s also a dizzyingly complex subject with no easy solutions. Experts are divided. The American Heart Association recently reaffirmed that it does not recommend universal screening for potential cardiovascular disease in young athletes with electrocardiograms (ECGs). On the other hand, universal screening has been adopted, apparently successfully, in Italy.

According to Anahad O’Connor in the New York Times, however, the movement toward routine ECG screening for student athletes may be inexorable, as it is not just cost-effective but desirable from a medical and a societal perspective. The Times article states that sudden cardiac death (SCD) of young athletes “is far more prevalent… than previously believed.” About 2,000 children each year die from SCD, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, as cited by the Times, but this includes all children, not just athletes. The Times quotes the mother of a young athlete who died: “this happens all the time.”

But the world’s leading expert on SCD, Barry Maron, of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, insists that there has been no noticeable change in prevalence, and that SCD in children– whether athletes or not– is a rare event.  “The peer reviewed data on this topic suggests that there are about 75 sudden cardiovascular deaths in competitive atheltes every year in the US,” he told me in an interview. (The Times article is similarly dizzy about the cost of an ECG test. Although medical costs are always a byzantine topic, the $1,400 cost cited in the article is preposterous. Move the decimal point one place: $140 is a lot closer to reality.)

O’Connor acknowledges that the AHA does not recommend universal screening, but argues that the position “pivots on old data.” He cites a 2010 study from Stanford published in Annals of Internal Medicine suggesting that ECG screening may be cost-effective, but doesn’t cite an accompanying article in the same issue that reached a much less positive conclusion. Also not mentioned is an editorial accompanying the articles, written by Maron himself, offering a number of reasons why widespread ECG  screening should not be widely adopted at this time. (Click here for my previous coverage of the Annals articles.)

Even the Stanford author tells the Times that “we are not advocating this as a mandatory test for all students or all athletes,” but the article moves on to quote another expert who thinks “the time has come for thorough heart screenings for all young athletes.” James Willerson, of the Texas Heart Institute, told O’Connor: “If we save even one life, it will be worth it.” But Willerson, who had a distinguished career as a cardiology thought leader, is not an expert in SCD, and has an important conflict of interest in this case. As mentioned in the Times article, Willerson has a $5 million private grant to screen 10,000 students in Houston middle schools.

In his interview with me Maron offered a far more balanced perspective. He acknowledged that “each of these deaths are greatly tragic, and it is never the intention to minimize it by citing numbers, however large and however small. Furthermore,” he continued, “no one would ever feel comfortable placing a monetary value on a young athlete’s life.”

Maron spoke about the limitations that most cardiologists, Willerson aside, understand about ECGs. The test is far from perfect. There are false negative and false positive tests, and these need to be considered when evaluating the test. The high rate of false negatives associated with the ECG means that “in a significant proportion of the screened population important diseases would be expected to be missed,” said Maron. “This limitation is not even mentioned in the [Times] article.” False positives are also important, Maron observed, “because they create the possibility of unwarranted disqualification from sports as well as substantial anxiety among the families and participants.”

Another cardiologist, electrophysiologist Wes Fisher, talked about false positives in more graphic terms:

The psychological and emotional toll of telling a young student athlete that they can no longer partiipate in sports… is huge. Anyone who thinks it’s as easy as “just get an EKG” has never had to evaluate the marginal 18-year old who’s life you’ll potentially change forever.

Maron was also highly critical of the exclusive focus on student athletes:

All this discussion about limiting preparticipation screening for the detection of potentially lethal cardiovascular disease to athlete populations does not make a lot of sense because it is exclusionary and discriminatory. More sudden deaths from these same genetic diseases occur in nonathletes, numerically speaking. Therefore it would seem most prudent to discuss screening in young people, athletes and nonathletes, for these diseases. However, the numbers involved in those projected screening programs are so large that they limit any reasonable discussion of practicality.

According to Maron, there are about 10.7 million athletes out of a total population of 63 million children and adolescents.

On the same day as the Times article appeared, the AHA issued a science advisory about screening approaches for heart disease in children and adolescents. Once again, the AHA did not endorse mandatory screening for athletic participation. As Stuart Berger, one of the authors of the AHA statement, wrote:

New screening programs, including mass ECG screening, must be based on sound and evidence-based principles rather than a reaction to catastrophic events.

The Times article appears to be one of the first articles featured in the Times new “Well” blog, which is intended to bring substantially enhanced coverage of health topics onto the Times’ website. This article does not bode well for the future of this coverage, as it falls short in so many respects.


View the original article here

Cardiobrief blog says NYT story on screening for student athletes “falls short in so many respects”

There may be no more horrifying medical catastrophe than the sudden death of a young athlete on the playing field in front of a large crowd of friends, family, and community. But it’s also a dizzyingly complex subject with no easy solutions. Experts are divided. The American Heart Association recently reaffirmed that it does not recommend universal screening for potential cardiovascular disease in young athletes with electrocardiograms (ECGs). On the other hand, universal screening has been adopted, apparently successfully, in Italy.

According to Anahad O’Connor in the New York Times, however, the movement toward routine ECG screening for student athletes may be inexorable, as it is not just cost-effective but desirable from a medical and a societal perspective. The Times article states that sudden cardiac death (SCD) of young athletes “is far more prevalent… than previously believed.” About 2,000 children each year die from SCD, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, as cited by the Times, but this includes all children, not just athletes. The Times quotes the mother of a young athlete who died: “this happens all the time.”

But the world’s leading expert on SCD, Barry Maron, of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, insists that there has been no noticeable change in prevalence, and that SCD in children– whether athletes or not– is a rare event.  “The peer reviewed data on this topic suggests that there are about 75 sudden cardiovascular deaths in competitive atheltes every year in the US,” he told me in an interview. (The Times article is similarly dizzy about the cost of an ECG test. Although medical costs are always a byzantine topic, the $1,400 cost cited in the article is preposterous. Move the decimal point one place: $140 is a lot closer to reality.)

O’Connor acknowledges that the AHA does not recommend universal screening, but argues that the position “pivots on old data.” He cites a 2010 study from Stanford published in Annals of Internal Medicine suggesting that ECG screening may be cost-effective, but doesn’t cite an accompanying article in the same issue that reached a much less positive conclusion. Also not mentioned is an editorial accompanying the articles, written by Maron himself, offering a number of reasons why widespread ECG  screening should not be widely adopted at this time. (Click here for my previous coverage of the Annals articles.)

Even the Stanford author tells the Times that “we are not advocating this as a mandatory test for all students or all athletes,” but the article moves on to quote another expert who thinks “the time has come for thorough heart screenings for all young athletes.” James Willerson, of the Texas Heart Institute, told O’Connor: “If we save even one life, it will be worth it.” But Willerson, who had a distinguished career as a cardiology thought leader, is not an expert in SCD, and has an important conflict of interest in this case. As mentioned in the Times article, Willerson has a $5 million private grant to screen 10,000 students in Houston middle schools.

In his interview with me Maron offered a far more balanced perspective. He acknowledged that “each of these deaths are greatly tragic, and it is never the intention to minimize it by citing numbers, however large and however small. Furthermore,” he continued, “no one would ever feel comfortable placing a monetary value on a young athlete’s life.”

Maron spoke about the limitations that most cardiologists, Willerson aside, understand about ECGs. The test is far from perfect. There are false negative and false positive tests, and these need to be considered when evaluating the test. The high rate of false negatives associated with the ECG means that “in a significant proportion of the screened population important diseases would be expected to be missed,” said Maron. “This limitation is not even mentioned in the [Times] article.” False positives are also important, Maron observed, “because they create the possibility of unwarranted disqualification from sports as well as substantial anxiety among the families and participants.”

Another cardiologist, electrophysiologist Wes Fisher, talked about false positives in more graphic terms:

The psychological and emotional toll of telling a young student athlete that they can no longer partiipate in sports… is huge. Anyone who thinks it’s as easy as “just get an EKG” has never had to evaluate the marginal 18-year old who’s life you’ll potentially change forever.

Maron was also highly critical of the exclusive focus on student athletes:

All this discussion about limiting preparticipation screening for the detection of potentially lethal cardiovascular disease to athlete populations does not make a lot of sense because it is exclusionary and discriminatory. More sudden deaths from these same genetic diseases occur in nonathletes, numerically speaking. Therefore it would seem most prudent to discuss screening in young people, athletes and nonathletes, for these diseases. However, the numbers involved in those projected screening programs are so large that they limit any reasonable discussion of practicality.

According to Maron, there are about 10.7 million athletes out of a total population of 63 million children and adolescents.

On the same day as the Times article appeared, the AHA issued a science advisory about screening approaches for heart disease in children and adolescents. Once again, the AHA did not endorse mandatory screening for athletic participation. As Stuart Berger, one of the authors of the AHA statement, wrote:

New screening programs, including mass ECG screening, must be based on sound and evidence-based principles rather than a reaction to catastrophic events.

The Times article appears to be one of the first articles featured in the Times new “Well” blog, which is intended to bring substantially enhanced coverage of health topics onto the Times’ website. This article does not bode well for the future of this coverage, as it falls short in so many respects.


View the original article here

Cardiobrief blog says NYT story on screening for student athletes “falls short in so many respects”

There may be no more horrifying medical catastrophe than the sudden death of a young athlete on the playing field in front of a large crowd of friends, family, and community. But it’s also a dizzyingly complex subject with no easy solutions. Experts are divided. The American Heart Association recently reaffirmed that it does not recommend universal screening for potential cardiovascular disease in young athletes with electrocardiograms (ECGs). On the other hand, universal screening has been adopted, apparently successfully, in Italy.

According to Anahad O’Connor in the New York Times, however, the movement toward routine ECG screening for student athletes may be inexorable, as it is not just cost-effective but desirable from a medical and a societal perspective. The Times article states that sudden cardiac death (SCD) of young athletes “is far more prevalent… than previously believed.” About 2,000 children each year die from SCD, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, as cited by the Times, but this includes all children, not just athletes. The Times quotes the mother of a young athlete who died: “this happens all the time.”

But the world’s leading expert on SCD, Barry Maron, of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, insists that there has been no noticeable change in prevalence, and that SCD in children– whether athletes or not– is a rare event.  “The peer reviewed data on this topic suggests that there are about 75 sudden cardiovascular deaths in competitive atheltes every year in the US,” he told me in an interview. (The Times article is similarly dizzy about the cost of an ECG test. Although medical costs are always a byzantine topic, the $1,400 cost cited in the article is preposterous. Move the decimal point one place: $140 is a lot closer to reality.)

O’Connor acknowledges that the AHA does not recommend universal screening, but argues that the position “pivots on old data.” He cites a 2010 study from Stanford published in Annals of Internal Medicine suggesting that ECG screening may be cost-effective, but doesn’t cite an accompanying article in the same issue that reached a much less positive conclusion. Also not mentioned is an editorial accompanying the articles, written by Maron himself, offering a number of reasons why widespread ECG  screening should not be widely adopted at this time. (Click here for my previous coverage of the Annals articles.)

Even the Stanford author tells the Times that “we are not advocating this as a mandatory test for all students or all athletes,” but the article moves on to quote another expert who thinks “the time has come for thorough heart screenings for all young athletes.” James Willerson, of the Texas Heart Institute, told O’Connor: “If we save even one life, it will be worth it.” But Willerson, who had a distinguished career as a cardiology thought leader, is not an expert in SCD, and has an important conflict of interest in this case. As mentioned in the Times article, Willerson has a $5 million private grant to screen 10,000 students in Houston middle schools.

In his interview with me Maron offered a far more balanced perspective. He acknowledged that “each of these deaths are greatly tragic, and it is never the intention to minimize it by citing numbers, however large and however small. Furthermore,” he continued, “no one would ever feel comfortable placing a monetary value on a young athlete’s life.”

Maron spoke about the limitations that most cardiologists, Willerson aside, understand about ECGs. The test is far from perfect. There are false negative and false positive tests, and these need to be considered when evaluating the test. The high rate of false negatives associated with the ECG means that “in a significant proportion of the screened population important diseases would be expected to be missed,” said Maron. “This limitation is not even mentioned in the [Times] article.” False positives are also important, Maron observed, “because they create the possibility of unwarranted disqualification from sports as well as substantial anxiety among the families and participants.”

Another cardiologist, electrophysiologist Wes Fisher, talked about false positives in more graphic terms:

The psychological and emotional toll of telling a young student athlete that they can no longer partiipate in sports… is huge. Anyone who thinks it’s as easy as “just get an EKG” has never had to evaluate the marginal 18-year old who’s life you’ll potentially change forever.

Maron was also highly critical of the exclusive focus on student athletes:

All this discussion about limiting preparticipation screening for the detection of potentially lethal cardiovascular disease to athlete populations does not make a lot of sense because it is exclusionary and discriminatory. More sudden deaths from these same genetic diseases occur in nonathletes, numerically speaking. Therefore it would seem most prudent to discuss screening in young people, athletes and nonathletes, for these diseases. However, the numbers involved in those projected screening programs are so large that they limit any reasonable discussion of practicality.

According to Maron, there are about 10.7 million athletes out of a total population of 63 million children and adolescents.

On the same day as the Times article appeared, the AHA issued a science advisory about screening approaches for heart disease in children and adolescents. Once again, the AHA did not endorse mandatory screening for athletic participation. As Stuart Berger, one of the authors of the AHA statement, wrote:

New screening programs, including mass ECG screening, must be based on sound and evidence-based principles rather than a reaction to catastrophic events.

The Times article appears to be one of the first articles featured in the Times new “Well” blog, which is intended to bring substantially enhanced coverage of health topics onto the Times’ website. This article does not bode well for the future of this coverage, as it falls short in so many respects.


View the original article here

Thursday, October 20, 2011


With the recent volatility and sell off on Wall Street I think it is a perfect time to discuss how you can profit from these down moves in the market. One of the ways to profit when a market or specific trading instrument goes down in price is called "shorting" or "short selling".
For this article we will assume you understand the basics of "shorting" and we will use stocks and ETF's to make it easier for everyone to follow along. Understand though that "shorting" can apply to wide array of trading instruments including futures contracts, bonds and currency pairs (forex).
For some reason a lot of traders, especially new traders, have a hard time understanding the dynamics of shorting and therefore do not utilize this very powerful option very much, if at all, when they trade. If you are going to be successful as a trader you need the ability to profit in any type of market environment.
Learning how to profit when markets decline is an essential skill for you master. If you are one of those traders that just don't feel comfortable "shorting" yet lets discuss a technique that you can use to potentially profit when a stock or sector goes down in price without having to "short" anything.
One of the most popular instruments available to trade today are Exchange Traded Funds or ETF's. Due to the numerous benefits they offer to short term traders and active investors the number of ETF's has grown at a dizzying pace over the past few years.
ETF's cover just about every sector and segment of the market that you can think of. From Financials to Gold and from Solar Power to Airlines there is an ETF out there that tracks that sector. One type of ETF that is avaliable to trade is called an "Inverse" ETF.
Inverse ETF's are designed to due to opposite (or inverse) of what the actual index is doing.
For example if the Financial sector is trading UP 2% this week then we would expect the Inverse Financial ETF to be doing the opposite and to be trading DOWN around 2% this week. On the contrary if the Financial sector was trading DOWN 5% for the month we would expect the Inverse ETF to be UP the same amount.
So, as a swing trader, how do you take advantage of and potentially profit form using Inverse ETF's? Let's say that you aren't rally sure about the overall direction of the market but in doing your research you notice significant weakness in the Oil and Gas sector.
Every chart you look at in this sector is telling you that this sector is weak and may continue to decline. You take a quick look at the chart of the Oil and Gas ETF and notice the same obvious weakness.
You wish you could get involved and profit from the next potential down move but you just do feel comfortable with this whole "shorting" thing yet. So what can you do? You then locate the symbol for an Inverse ETF for the Oil and Gas sector and pull up the chart to take a look.
Bingo!
Your "bearish" chart patterns now look "bullish" on this chart since it does the opposite of the regular ETF. Now you proceed just as you would in any other situation. You apply the same strategies or techniques you use when you enter into any other "LONG" position.
You simply buy the Inverse ETF and hopefully profit when price moves higher. The same is also true even if your trading strategy is based on indicators and/or oscillators or a combination of the two.
If your indicator is telling you that the regular ETF is "overbought" then the same indicator will read that the Inverse ETF is "over sold" (or close to it) and vice versa. If the regular ETF is "breaking down" out of a price channel and moving lower then the Inverse ETF should be "breaking out" and price should be moving higher.
That is the beauty of using Inverse ETF's. You don't have to develop a new strategy or method to trade them. You can still trade a "LONG" only method but by using Inverse ETF's your "LONG" only strategies have a chance to profit when markets decline.