Musings

For several years I published an occasional newsletter I called "OptionMusingS". It was an attempt to make some sense out of several markets I am fascinated by. First, and foremost, the stock and related options markets. Second, the bond market and futures markets and their related options. Third, the computer market as exemplified by the emergence of the personal computer; here I have tried to comprehend how a generally inferior operating system (as typified by Microsoft's Windows 3.1 and Windows 95) has come to dominate.

The letters which are listed are provided with only the necessary changes to reflect information which has changed (such as how to reach me) since they were first published. The original mailings went to an "exclusive" group of people. They included friends, relatives, college classmates and friends, and an occasional well-known name.

• December 1993
• March 1994
• December 1994
• May 1995
• October 1995

Also during the last several years I have written what I call "rants". Perhaps I owe a debt to WIRED magazine or comedian Dennis Miller. As I get older and more curmudgeonly I get more peeved with the arrogance of people who think they have all the answers -- especially when they keep giving the same answers to the same questions and keep demonstrating they really haven't a clue (especially when the question has nothing to do with whatever is being discussed). Yes, many of these people are politicians ‹ but it is more than just the manner in which they do not answer the questions asked during debates or interviews (but rather answer the questions they would like to be asked).

To paraphrase Dave Barry (from an interview in Reason, December 1994), "All I think is that it's stupid."

So, you're free to disagree with me!

• "A plus B plus"

Finally, in an effort to be timely (or at least ephemeral), here are what I call "MarketMusings" -- thoughts and other imponderables on the state of the stock/bond/futures markets. I've made my share of mistakes (some of them rather large), but I spent nearly twenty years trading (being, as I used to say, "gainfully unemployed"), so you might consider that I could be right at least a little more often than you -- or that these thoughts are free and perhaps worth it.

MarketMusings

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Date created: July 23, 1997
Last modified: August 1, 1997
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