bovine1
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Walnut Ridge,AR via Tallulah,LA |
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| Number of Posts: | 1280 |
| Registered on: | 12/8/2004 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Looking for another platform for day trading.
Posted by bovine1 on 5/2/24 at 8:56 pm
It's been awhile since I traded but I really liked Interactive Brokers. Best platform for my tastes and I liked their book trader algorithm....
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re: Agencies
Posted by bovine1 on 5/2/24 at 5:12 pm
I agree. I figure if I draw 5.97% for a few months it's better than the shorter term alternatives. If I draw that for 5 years I'm still ok with it. If rates spike enough I regret it there will be trouble in a lot of our markets. I keep my commitments small as well....
re: Agencies
Posted by bovine1 on 5/2/24 at 2:42 pm
Sorry FHLMC. ...
5 yr FHLB yielding 5.976% callable @100 beginning 08/24. First time lately I've extended that far. Good trading to all....
re: Worm Farmin'
Posted by bovine1 on 4/21/24 at 2:20 pm
To harvest the castings when the bin gets full I separate the worms and undigested food out. The food goes in my overflow bin. The worms I separate by hand. You can make a sifter with a wood frame and screen of some sort on the bottom. Sometimes I lay clear plastic on the ground and put the castings...
re: Worm Farmin'
Posted by bovine1 on 4/21/24 at 2:12 pm
The holes in the bottom are for drainage. You want moist bedding but not soaking wet. The biggest mistake I made when starting out was overfeeding. It creates way too much heat and moisture. If you want to catch the drainage which is great compost tea put a basin of some sort under the bin. You have...
re: Worm Farmin'
Posted by bovine1 on 4/19/24 at 9:26 pm
I use plastic storage containers for my worm bins. Drill holes around the top and around the bottom. I've got 8. 1 for each day of the week plus an overflow. These work great for me. I get a lot of castings. I agree with catching the liquid if you can make it work....
re: I have a bunch of unwanted saplings growing along a chain link fence line.
Posted by bovine1 on 4/16/24 at 9:30 pm
Tordon will also....
re: ponds around baton rouge
Posted by bovine1 on 4/4/24 at 9:30 pm
I was in one such club in the early 80's while in Vet School. The Pond Ltd. Reasonable and we had access to around a dozen or so ponds. ...
re: Snake ID
Posted by bovine1 on 4/3/24 at 10:04 am
We've kept several rat snakes before. At one time we had 4. Ours were all much darker than this snake. They must have been older. Thanks for the help....
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Is this a juvenile rat snake? We've had several mature ones but they're darker around here. ...
re: Add photo to post
Posted by bovine1 on 3/31/24 at 5:14 pm
Thanks mental decline plus impatience is a bad combination....
Add photo to post
Posted by bovine1 on 3/31/24 at 2:18 pm
How do I do this? I have a snake pic on my phone I'd like to post for ID on outdoor board. It asks me for a URL which there is none. Be easy I'm old and not as computer literate as you younger folks. TIA....
re: Do Umpires in the Field Ever Go to the Home Plate Umpire . . .
Posted by bovine1 on 3/29/24 at 2:36 pm
It happened in one of our HS games. My son's senior year he was about 6'5". Plate blue calls him out on a pitch just above ankle high. Next AB he apologized to my son and told him 1st plate ump after the inning told him he missed that one. This was also at an away game which made it even more surpri...
re: Where were you in 1984?
Posted by bovine1 on 2/28/24 at 9:31 pm
LSU Vet School. Watching baseball at the old box....
re: Fixed income: Bonds versus CDs
Posted by bovine1 on 2/6/24 at 2:43 pm
Thanks I'll check it out. ...
re: Fixed income: Bonds versus CDs
Posted by bovine1 on 2/6/24 at 10:54 am
I agree Big Scrub but I stay under 5 yrs and ladder ind issues. I also have other liquid funds so I don't have to sell into a panic. I do use ce funds if I go longer. I buy at more than average discounts and neg z scores only though. I also like to use cefs and etfs in bank loans like BGT and SRLN. ...
re: Fixed income: Bonds versus CDs
Posted by bovine1 on 2/6/24 at 8:56 am
I use those funds at times but mostly I buy ind bonds. I don't like the principal fluctuation in funds and etfs people dump them on bad news that increases the downside....
re: Fixed income: Bonds versus CDs
Posted by bovine1 on 2/5/24 at 9:21 pm
I've been buying some of the J P Morgan CD's. It's aggravating that they are all call protected. The non call protected ones are paying significantly (to me) less. I've been buying more 3 and 6 mo. TBills with a few A rated and BBB corporates yielding 6-7ish %. The agency newer issues are all call...
re: Are there still affordable vehicles?
Posted by bovine1 on 1/21/24 at 4:43 pm
Manual transmission Nissan Versa....
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