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Here's some iShares tickers For treasuries, SHY is 1-3 yr IEF is 7-10 yr TLT is 20+ yr TIP is TIPs For corporates, LQD For aggregate broad based bond market, AGG Here's another one: http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showCorpBond

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Or you have to work for a bank that has virtually unlimited lines of credit, or you have to be leveraged. Half a million? Assuming 250 trading days a year that's only $2,000 a day. Traders at big banks are expected to make more like $3 million a year

What gives? No takers? At 100% every 3 days, that's about 130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% per year. Give me a dollar and I can turn it into more money than there is in the world. Best of all, I'm right on 100% of my calls, so there's no risk. I guess it helps that I...

AHHH HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I WIN!!!! This doubling your money thing is easy. You couldn't even break even in a month? Why not? It's so easy. I just doubled in 3 days. Anyone want to give me some money to manage. I double money quick...faster than Ponzi

You should remember that for every call that someone is long someone else is short. Institutional money tend to be short calls and puts while retail investors tend to be long calls and puts. If there are more calls than puts, that generally means that the big banks are short more calls than...

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I sure hope so. :(

http://booyahboyaudit.com/ Beware though, in a bear market he crumbles. On 2/29/00 Cramer let the public know what he was buying for his now defunct hedge fund. Guess how many are still in business. "You want winners? You want me to put my Cramer Berkowitz hedge fund hat on and just...

That's a great link. I think this is the funniest think I've read all week.

Just a couple common sensical words of wisdom. Yesterday you asked "what going on" in the GBP. If you do not understand (or at least have a good idea) what is going on, you should get out of your position.

The stocks he's going to mention? I wonder if he'll tell whether he's going to pump the stock or trash it. :D

The best strategy I've found for making money is "buy low, sell high" :p

It'll go to 1.2034, then back to 1.2033, then 1.2032, then... How short term are we talking?

(Commentary. John M. Berry is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) By John M. Berry March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials seem more likely to pause in raising their target for the overnight lending rate when it reaches 5 percent than to push...

Oh, I'm not really familiar with how margin works. At work, margin is not an issue. I suppose if I put on a position big enough I hear from the risk manager, but I don't think I've ever approached that. Do they close out all your positions when you get a call, or just enough to get you back...

:( Alright, buy 470,160,000 yen (i.e. short 4 million USD/JPY). I need the rate to get to 116.09 to double. If it gets to 119.03 I get a margin call. Looks like it will take more than a day (unless tomorrow is a repeat of today) [They don't let you put the full amount in a single...

Because I'm bearish on the dollar longer term. Doesn't really matter though. We'll probably get correction tomorrow, but this is a gamble as are most plays that attempt to double an account in such a short period of time. I think my chances are better than mr double (regardless of whether I'm...

I'll try it. You were using FXCM. They offer 200:1 leverage right? So, with a 50k account I could put on a $10 million position right? The USD/YEN pair is currently 117.54 bid. I'll sell $10 million worth. That's a position of long 1,175,400,000 yen. If the USD/YEN rate goes to 118.13 the...

Well, mr double, nice effort. I suppose you did double your money from when it was at the lows. This thread was very entertaining. I hope you have learned something from your experiences. If I may give a little advice: Capital preservation is key. Do not let your loser run. When you...