What is SWATTING?

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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Swatting refers to a harassment technique most that entails generating an emergency law enforcement response against a target victim under false pretenses. Swatters do this by making phone calls to emergency lines like 911 and falsely reporting a violent emergency situation, such as a shooting or hostage situation.

Swatters often consider what they are doing to be a prank, but it can come with serious consequences. Swatting occupies law enforcement response teams, making them unavailable to respond to real emergencies. There have even been swatting incidents where law enforcement officers were shot, and in one case the victim of the swatting was shot dead by law enforcement.

In recent years, the US has tried to dissuade swatters by imposing serious penalties for the perpetrators, but swatting continues to be an issue. Swatting is often hard for law enforcement to address, since many swatters use sophisticated techniques to hide their identity. Swatters disguise themselves using techniques like caller ID spoofing, where they utilize software to make it appear as though they are a local caller when they could be anywhere in the world.

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What is “Consumption Smoothing”?

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Consumption smoothing is the economic concept used to express the desire of people to have a stable path of consumption. People desire to translate their consumption from periods of high income to periods of low income to obtain more stability and predictability. There exist many states of the world, which means there are many possible outcomes that can occur throughout an individual’s life. Therefore, to reduce the uncertainty that occurs, people choose to give up some consumption today to prevent against an adverse outcome in the future. In order for one to adequately and properly prepare for unforeseen circumstances that can occur in the future, we must start planning today, putting money aside for when these unforeseen circumstances happen.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/082610254

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What is “Mark to Market” Valuation?

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Marking to Market (MTM) means valuing the security at the current trading price. Therefore, it results in the traders’ daily settlement of profits and losses due to the changes in its market value.

  • Suppose on a particular trading day, the value of the security rises. In that case, the trader taking a long position (buyer) will collect the money equal to the security’s change in value from the trader holding the short position (seller).
  • On the other hand, if the security value falls, the selling trader will collect money from the buyer. The money is equal to the change in the value of the security. It should be noted that the value at maturity does not change much. However, the parties involved in the contract pay gains and losses to each other at the end of every trading day.

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Examples of Mark to Market

An exchange marks traders’ accounts to their market values daily by settling the gains and losses that result due to changes in the value of the security. There are two counterparties on either side of a futures contract—a long trader and a short trader. The trader who holds the long position in the futures contract is usually bullish, while the trader shorting the contract is considered bearish.

If at the end of the day, the futures contract entered into goes down in value, the long margin account will be decreased and the short margin account increased to reflect the change in the value of the derivative.

An increase in value results in an increase in the margin account holding the long position and a decrease in the short futures account.

According to investopedia, for example, to hedge against falling commodity prices, a wheat farmer takes a short position in 10 wheat futures contracts on November 21st. Since each contract represents 5,000 bushels, the farmer is hedging against a price decline on 50,000 bushels of wheat. If the price of one contract is $4.50 on Nov. 21st. the wheat farmer’s account will be recorded as $4.50 x 50,000 bushels = $225,000.

DayFutures PriceChange in ValueGain/LossCumulative Gain/LossAccount Balance
1$4.50   225,000
2$4.55+0.05-2,500-2,500222,500
3$4.53-0.02+1,000-1,500223,500
4$4.46-0.07+3,500+2,000227,000
5$4.39-0.07+3,500+5,500230,500

Because the farmer has a short position in wheat futures, a fall in the value of the contract will result in an increase in their account. Likewise, an increase in value will result in a decrease in account value. For example, on Day 2, wheat futures increased by $4.55 – $4.50 = $0.05, resulting in a loss for the day of $0.05 x 50,000 bushels = $2,500. While this amount is subtracted from the farmer’s account balance, the exact amount will be added to the account of the trader on the other end of the transaction holding a long position on wheat futures.

The daily mark to market settlements will continue until the expiration date of the futures contract or until the farmer closes out his position by going long on a contract with the same maturity.

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PODCAST: Nurses Go on Strike

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Eric Bricker MD

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PODCAST: Turning a PBS Interviewer into an NFT Interviewee

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

On the Non-Fungible Token Market

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By Vitaliy Katseneson CFA

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Turning a PBS Interviewer into Interviewee
I was interviewed on PBS Newshour about the insanity that is happening in the NFT (non-fungible token) market. You can watch it here. If you read my “I Kid You Not Crazy” article, then you know everything I have to say about NFTs and cryptocurrency. I can sum up my thoughts on NFTs in one sentence: NFTs, just like cryptocurrencies, are a technology of the future, but a speculative bubble induced by excess global liquidity in the present. 

I encourage you to watch this eight-minute video – PBS did a great job. 

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