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and Lipton

the funds you mentioned track inverse 3x and 2x of DAILY PERCENTAGE moves of russell 1000 financial index and emerging markets, they are daytrading instruments and should not be used for long term trades, at least not in a conventional way in a year or a few months its possible to have...

Fed to start buying Treasurys on Wednesday By Deborah Levine Last update: 2:58 p.m. EDT March 24, 2009Comments: 2 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will begin making purchases Of U.S. Treasury securities on Wednesday, starting with debt maturing between 2016 and...

Why did they ban short selling stocks? I never thought it was possible in America. Recently I heard talks of actual stock certificates being required to be presented to allow shorting of certain stocks. Why is there "buy American" clause in stimulus bill. Why is my good friend, who speaks 5...

i'm not an expert on this, but please consider what i will say, i agree with the idea of shorting 7-10 or 30 yr. US treasuries, but your assumption about PST not going much lower is incorrect, it's not probable but still possible for example for the yield to go negative, with government...

just a few minutes ago i saw this on a russian website

-364, 3700 shares,

FDO, GD and LM

+ 187, 1300 shares, although I had URS on my earnings watch list I somehow managed to miss it, looks like it was fun to trade today

BIG, maybe BJ

+263, 1500 shares

azo

+ 676, 1700 shares

had bought 300 shares of DVA with average price of 41.5 last friday afterhour, sold today avg. price 42.98, might trade that stock's open, also trading FCN today, have some buy orders in C, BAC, GE, MGM and LVS way below the close

no, i've been trading very small recently, lots of times just 100 share lots, i've also been taking the profits too soon, for some reason i'm trading very scared and sometimes just plain stupid, i hope to slowly build confidence and size, ideally at the end of the day i want to be able...