Recent content by BoyPlunger

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what a great way of describing the situation blotto. I would add this: someone once asked me how i stay disciplined working from home. we got to talking and one of the paths our conversation took was me discovering/expounding that sometimes discipline means sleeping til noon, then going to...

although not the topic of this thread, you also need to worry about a wealth tax. BCG and others say is coming. Then there is no escape if you are in the system. The only thing safe would be cash and gold in your hands. As far as bank and brokerage deposit confiscation I would say keep...

tradition and maybe back in the day it had to do with major mine production schedules... silver: march may july sep dec gold: feb april june aug dec

It depends what state they're a resident of not where they die or are buried. If they're a NJ resident they pay NJ estate tax. If the person they're giving it to is a NJ resident, that person pays NJ inheritance tax AFTER the estate tax has been paid. The best scenario would be for the...

This seems like a good spot to hijack this thread into a general US traders' based chit chat tax ideas. I'll start: New Jersey is the worst place to trade in the country. You are not allowed to offset losing years from winning years in paying 8.97% state tax. You are not allowed to deduct...

I believe if you have a cash account (not margin) your securities are not supposed to be touched or lent out at all.

cover 67

fwiw they post long recommendations or at least warnings of potential short coverings all the time. Most of what they write is not a RECOMMENDATION it is an article of interest. When they do make recommendations, they are usually pretty good. And their screen shots of credit and risk asset...

that is the understatement of the year. i'm not sure the average person would interpret it well however.

gold down 15 in 10 seconds. something is up

hmm jumpiness feels like quants and hfts trading rapid fire maybe unwinding something. nasdaqs stocks moving higher, banks, miners lower.

fitch downgraded italy

sh 65 st 70

let's say you think tomorrow's the top but don't want to wait for confirmation after a bad jobs number and the SP has gone down 25 points in 30 seconds. you can put some of it on now, and some on after the 8:30 number. Yes I do think tomorrow will be the top and am debating how to play it...