Recent content by Brendan R

short 98.44 target 93 stop 100.50

at least, in piggy land, you can still enjoy the sun and eat the food from your orchard by the way, the I in PIGS stands for Ireland, not Italy alhough it seems to get stretched to PIIGS recently

being long gold in a meltdown situation were currencies are worth nothing makes no sense unless you own it physically. What's the point of having huge mark to market profits if these profits are expressed in a worthless currency. Gold makes sense only if owned physically and you have the...

I'm still looking for parity with the euro

having sex with the gold bugs I guess

long-term trend followers about to throw in the towel.... models about to reverse to short equities and long dollars.... 2 months of big drawdowns already, on average 15-20% below high water mark.... unwind of momentum and carry trade.... 1st quarter GS prop desk profits will be...

gold down 40 bucks, I love it

VF is not my only broker

same here, been using them for a while now. If anything, maybe VF could have sent customers a notification of server upgrades. Happy with the platform/service.

we broke last week lows and we have a bearish engulfing pattern on the weekly... same on Eurostox....EUR about to break its 200 MA.... all this not boding well for bullishness

good day for me so far, 50 points in the bag netted

that's a notional of EUR 150,000,000.... one second before, the ES was pushed from 1144 to 1144.75 with just 225 contracts and maintained there while the trigger on the FDAX was pulled..... The idea is to sell into this bid and thank this participant for his generosity. We have 2...

the FDAX jumped 10 points on the back of 1000 contracts at 8:45:45 ridiculous

I bought 4 units last quarter with Intel processors, that should help them beat expectations (on one of them one of the Hitachi HDD already failed, my 2 cents is... don't go for RAID configurations...) my feeling is they will beat which will allow indices to break on the upside (ES 1160) but...

Indeed, for a good read on the subject: The Road to Serfdom by Hayek