Recent content by milktruck

It is black and white, you just need to think about it more and it will make sense eventually.

the guy who sold to you at $1 and bought it back at $5.10 yes, I know you can create a million scenarios of people making profits on either end, but you are just increasing the loss of the last hypothetical person you have not accounted for. this is how it works. If you want to think...

How about I just email you some money?

zh was mocking this news. $1m notional enough to shank the market, no mention that it could be hedging a long, etc. They presented it as an example of propaganda and misdirection if anything. gotta read it through to the end for the real color. I think we are getting near the point where...

Haha something like that. Youre up in a nice spot, I was on 9th. Brickels more my speed, but way too small. Not sure about energy, I worked on a retail FX brokerage desk and now for one of the largest Ag traders while Im doing an MBA (not gonna name names publicly). Never did any energy...

Ive seen 400 mil dropped accidentally after 4pm on the pound, moved it maybe 80 ticks with nobody in the market. Ive also traded 50-100 mil pound pieces into major liquidity providers with no movement during europe. So it varies on time, instrument, and who you are trading with Id imagine...

Woohoo we are crushing the Vikes, winning the division, Hester set the all time record for td returns, Favre took a career ender to the dome (wishful thinking)and a Bears fan chimed in with the correct answer to the question of this thread. Dont argue with this guy, what he just laid on you was...

Youre an idiot

um what? also, to EMR: um, what?

banks taking stupid risks dont deserve the reward when it goes bad. traders should get this intuitively.

this is true, but it's al about the second derivative

Stock dispersion is at all time lows, the last thing it is right now is a stock pickers market, alpha is dead for the time being. You dont think your bull rants on nothing but the fact that the market has gone up a lot recently reek of desperation?

What market internals are you referring to? I agree the fundamentals and price action have decoupled over the past year, but my view would be that they eventually have to agree, not continue to diverge since they have diverged recently. Yeah yeah LTCM, I know. Dont worry Im not anywhere...

Why dont you be specific why your 2 data points are not closer to a religious conviction than the dozen I laid out, your holiness? Also, this is a TRADING forum. BTW you know what happens when you assume things...

So first you think a correction is a 10% drop in one day and now you think there is nothing fundamental predicting a crash? You want reasons? Home sales at ALL TIME low Home prices are headed back down while mortgage rates are also at historic lows and the govt has been giving away $8k...