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ML bloomberg interview http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=av&T=Author%20Lewis%20Says%20Wall%20Street%20Is%20%60Making%20America%20Worse%27&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vUHzlM3HI8i0.asf

This is a nice upgrade from the previous version. Alerts for forex does not appear to work properly though. Please investigate.

Some news on the forex news feed of japanese pension funds buying stocks to push up nikkei.

Taleb and Mandelbrot Talk: Slack and Sleeplessness http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/10/23/taleb_and_mande.html http://bit.ly/3YeRBM

Massive rally in the US dollar against pretty much all currencies except the Yen. Congrats to those smart enough to see it coming. Hedge funds blowing up and panic unwinding? What and when will be the catalyst for it to end? Thoughts?

It's official. Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008 — The Securities and Exchange Commission, acting in concert with the U.K. Financial Services Authority, today took temporary emergency action to prohibit short selling in financial companies to protect the integrity and quality of the...

Say hello to your new totalitarian overloads.

Yup, usually happens all too frequently on sundays for Globex products.

You can use the IB feature poll on their website to vote for improvements to the mobile trader. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/poll/poll.php

http://dealbreaker.com/2008/04/cattle_call.php

TWS login window appeared for me after a while. It takes a while because it is trying to connect to the web server which is down to check for updates.

http://www.wilmott.com/blogs/paul/index.cfm/2008/3/10/This-is-No-Longer-Funny I’ve been critical of much of quant modelling for many years. I don’t like the assumptions, the models, the implementations. I’ve backed this up with sound reasons and wherever possible tried to find...

The Yen corrected after the FED announcement, but is much higher now having recouped its losses and more. The US equity indexes are still significantly higher, and have not given back most of their gains yet. Given the correlation in the past, there is potential for more catch up. I've heard...