Recent content by Shaman

but I dont understand what you are speculating (there is no doubt the power went out). I am not trying to bust your balls I am just trying to understand what you are seeing. btw I am not watching the futures so you could already be right.

Just curious why you would call this a false crisis? Especially since its 7:00 p.m. power is still out and nobody seems to know when it will get back online.

No they are just like securities here is a link: http://www.greencompany.com/EducationCenter/GTTRecSecFutures.shtml

I dont have any links nor do i feel like finding one but right after sept 11 didnt the gov pump billions into bonds? I may be wrong since finding proof that it is in the govt's interest to prevent a financial collapse seems to me like proving the sky is blue. granted I do not think action like...

depends, if you are talking about these last 3 days then I say anyone doing very well is just a lucky bastard. If you are talking about in general well it can be hard to tell the difference sometimes between luck and skill, or just big balls :p

just curious but does anyone else wonder if we did not just see the war rally? at least the meat of it

i try to avoid this crap but i have to say after seeing photos of this smoking gun i almost shit myself. Man i went right out bought all the duct tape i could find and then went looking for a bomb shelter. man imagine if al qaeda gets the blueprints for this monster of engineering! the horror...

dont worry new bull market is going to start in the middle of a recession. *in sammy davis voice* "Its going to be crazy man". im joking of course. but clearly nothing matters right now or will matter till all the geniuses holding long for the great war rally get supremely disappointed. or...

any respectable video card you get right now will have dual outputs i.e. geforce4 or the new radeon cards. If you are looking to buy a new card i would wait a few weeks as both nvidia and ATI will be releasing new cards this month. even if you do not want the brand new cards (which you will pay...

yea i buy the ask and sell the bid. you are wasting your time if you try anything else. It seems to me that the MM's are usually just programs and that they refill their size on the next tick (the next tick on the ssf not the underlying).

volume does not matter for ssf's, at least not right now. mm's put up a two sided market and you can scalp off of this. you will have to beat the spread though and ssf's do not move tick 4 tick with the underlying. so yes you can scalp for dimes but it is not as easy (profitable) as with the...

4 contracts trade for any given stock. i 4get the actual terms but the 2 of the active quarterly contracts i.e. march, june, sept, dec trade and then 2 contracts from whatever are the near months. For example right now contracts for ssf's that are trading are feb, march, april and june. with feb...

no special secret methods. made most of my money at the end of the year shorting the "new bull market", i.e. right around the middle of nov all the experts and fools were declaring the bear was dead and the dow was shooting thru 10k...i was shorting the rallies did decent on overnights. and when...

started trading last sept at datek trading nyse. thru this board heard of IB and kinder rates and moved my account. opened a cash account, discovered what t+3 really means and almost gave up trading till I heard of SSF's. Started trading SSF's and after losing brilliantly at the start...

"The only thing I know for certain is the market will do its best to screw up the most people" possible." read this quote on thestreet.com and thought of this thread.