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Short 1114.25 or better.

One man’s woe is another man’s windfall, as the financial crisis reminds us again and again. Now, the eurozone’s problems are providing a field day for some savvy hedge funds who just can’t wait for more trouble to rear its ugly head. And their prayers are likely to be answered. As...

Financials laggard : http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/multi?tickers=gs,bac,c,ms,wfc,jpm

Some traders should learn to program their algos in the right way. So obvious what needs to be done :

Some madmen continuing buying 5962-5963 area. Greetings from Jerome Kerviel...

6000 contracts changing hands. What a joke.

Some heavyweight fighting 5963-5962 area. 2500 contracts changing hands. What coincedence...

FT Alphaville wrote in October 2008 that, by and large, banks’ holdings of synthetic corporate CDOs had yet to be written down. Fast forward to December 2009, and it looks like the same might still be true for the majority of those holdings. Recall that synthetic CDOs are not backed by...

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Rumors of a debt disaster are swirling around Europe, from Athens to Madrid and all the way to London. Investors have rushed to sell Greek bonds since the newly elected government of George Papandreou made a startling revelation: the deficit will soar to over 12% of...

Seems, GDP numbers have already leaked....

About 25 high-frequency trading firms have discussed forming a lobbying group within the Futures Industry Association as they move to deal with growing scrutiny in Washington, the association told Reuters. The firms have held a series of meetings in Chicago over the last two months, spurred...

That's a much more interesting read : When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. The biggest...

Stock prices are inflated, really ? :D

Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Unemployment declined in 36 U.S. states in November, with Kentucky and Connecticut posting the biggest declines from a month earlier. Kentucky’s jobless rate fell to 10.6 percent from 11.3 percent the previous month, the Labor Department said today in Washington...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has launched a broad inquiry into how Wall Street firms disseminate stock ratings and research, people familiar with the matter said. The industry-funded regulator of securities firms doing business in the U.S. recently sought information from...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Tension over a tax the U.K. government has made on banker bonuses grew as a top regulator reportedly said it wouldn't be bad if banks departed the country. Several banks -- and other City institutions like broker-dealer Tullett Prebon that aren't necessarily impacted...

That's priceless...: Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank should revise its collateral rules after a series of rating downgrades left Moody’s Investors Service holding a veto over Greece’s access to ECB loans, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said. “This is a bizarre and...

Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- German business confidence increased to the highest in more than a year in December, a sign the economic recovery is on track. The Munich-based Ifo institute’s business climate index, based on a survey of 7,000 executives, rose to 94.7 from 93.9 in November. That’s...

Long gold = not invested at all short USD = long USD long Bonds = short Bonds long equities = mean reversion ( by the way, you mean long index futures as a CTA is not invested în "equities"... ) long commodities = not invested at all I must be the exception.:cool:

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