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One thing that strikes me as pretty strange is the WTI contract's lack of movement for a while after the close of the open outcry session. During the session the contract actively participates in the global markets, and the strength of the dollar, commodities and the equitites markets all...

http://rt.com/usa/news/fed-trillion-reserve-bailout-401/ Fed secretly handed out $8 trillion We knew the last bailout from the Federal Reserve was pretty big, but not until now did we have statistics on the actually tally. If you thought that the $700 billion bailout for TARP was big, get...

Thank you, ASE1245!

Has anyone looked into positions where warrants and options are combined? For instance, warrants traded on Scoach? And would there be any retail or semi-pro software that could create risk-graphs of such positions or do you have to resort to Reuters or Bloomberg for that? Any contribution is...

Reuters. Institutionals use Prime Brokerage to access the big Scandinavian banks. For retail and pro traders, I have no clue.

talking-forex.com is a great squawk service for GBP20 a month. I have used them (and before that Ransquawk) for years. Their forex-feed is a steal, considering they used to charge like GBP150 for it 2-3 years ago. Couldn't believe my luck when they launched it as a retail-oriented service at 90%...

No, but he's probably crying after dumping his Elvis memorabilia on ebay to afford food.

Of course, the US is systematically corrupt :)

Let us for argument's sake say you have access to the top corrupt politicians of a country in Africa and Asia, who are themselves eager to exploit their position and siphon off money for themselves in an offshore bank account. These guys are just waiting for ideas and proposals for deals that...

CHF/JPY is interesting as a measure of preference between safe-haven currencies. I'm surprised the NOK is so weak, a great place to short the CHF should surely be CHF/NOK at close to 7.60.

Off-topic, but I found it hilarious that 5-minute bars can pass as HFT-data :)