Recent content by RiceRocket

When do the PIIGS just tell the EU to take a flying fuck?

I brought this up here as a gift. This will be the most profitable futures trade available for the coming year. China is about to do another major re-valuation upward of the RMB.

CME just recently launched futures in the Chinese Yuan currency. Has anyone here traded this yet? I just looked it up today and here are some details: The December contract is: RMBZ11 Bid: 0.15600 Ask: 0.15800 Tick size is: 0.00001 = $10.00 Initial margin: $1,440 Maintenance...

If he was diagnosed in 2003, then he lived about 8 years, which is pretty close to the survival rate of the medical route. So, it wouldn't seem to be a failure, but a success, as he didn't have to go to the chop shop, and deal with chemo side effects.

I am going to end to love fest, and remind people that FXCM is being fined by the NFA!

I will divulge a secret that will change the whole way you view price action. Sigma channels. Set up 4 separate bollinger bands, the first at 1 standard deviation, second at 2, third at 3, fourth at 4. Then set this on intraday, daily, weekly, and monthly charts. Then let the magic happen...

They were notorious for stop runs and spiking prices to create margin liquidations.

Short TBT! Long TLT! The fed is going to pledge low rates, and they have the power to do it. Growth is at stall speed now, there's no catalyst for higher rates. A downgrade would actually make rates fall, because it would change the risk free rate of all asset classes globally, huge flight to...

Foreign direct investment.

I hate sales tax. But at this point with the state bugets, that's just part of the new normal. The whole internet being exempt from sales tax has been a bit like the wild west, we all knew it wouldn't last forever.

You all are so full of shit! Hahaha! The only way to trade the markets is to have an understanding of monetary theory economics, and riding the large trends of monetary expansion. Trying to trade against hedge funds program trading is just dumb and gambling.

If Moody's downgrades US treasuries, Moody's will become irrelevant.

That's the first time you've seen a sell program? They happen all the time. There are buy and sell programs. They are performed by large funds that arb the equities versus the futures.

The true exit strategy is for the debt ceiling not to be raised. Interest rates will balloon, and the fed can continue to keep zirp and print money.