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I'll have to agree with stocktrad3r on this one. Slow growth is good. Strong growth is good. No growth is good. A strong dollar is good. A weak dollar is good. No dollar is good. Falling stock prices are good. Rising stock prices are good. No stock prices are good...

Once again I'll play the role of stockhold3r: "Everything's great. Just buy, buy, buy!!!!!! RIMM, AAPL, GOOG will own everything pretty soon and you'll do well to own them. There is no credit crunch and even if there was, it's great for the economy. Bank failures are good for the economy...

There's a guy who posts here called Young trader. From reading some of his posts, he seems to be fairly well versed on the agricultural commodities and probably can give you some guidance. Look him up.

Here's a few interesting numbers to watch. The indexes started the year at these levels and are currently at: DJIA Start 12463 Now 13110 +5.19% Nas Start 2415 Now 2618 +8.4% S&P500 Start 1418 Now 1451 +2.33% Russel...

Since he is nowhere to be found on days like today, I will play the part of stocktrad3r: "Everything's great. Markets will go up forever. Just buy Goog, Aapl, Rimm, etc. Globalization is great. It will mean ever expanding profits. Goog, etc. will continue to make tons of money because...

You should just hang on. I'm sure you're right.

Right now it seems to be a gold - yen inverse relationship.

loose = not tight lose = not winning arghhhh!!!!!! are we a continent of illiterates?

price = div1/r-g div1 = dividends in period 1 r = applicable discount rate g = growth in dividend (or a proxy is growth in earnings) THINK ABOUT IT! Which is going to fall faster, growth in earnings or the discount rate? Hmmmm........

C'mon Gnome. Don't be that way. Here we have a nice thread going and you go spoil it with all your talk about responsible monetary policy. Sheesh.

Gee Enforcer, you make it sound like a bad thing. Here's what will happen. A new inflation measure will be introduced. It will strip out those pesky rising import prices. Viola! No inflation. It's that easy. Just strip out the things rising in price and you have no inflation...

Excuse me, gold is now up $14. This is all going to end badly.

You're right scriabino. I find that part very perplexing. Why aren't bonds selling off? You would think that if inflation was ramping higher, bonds would be sold down regardless of Fed policy. Instead they go higher. This is very odd. I guess the Fed must be 'boxed' in at this point...

Ivan, you're right. This thing seems unstoppable. I'm having a hard time believing this. Can the U.S. dollar be that truly worthless? From a contrarian standpoint, it seems that right about when I'm ready to throw in the towel (trying for a counter trend bounce), it comes. I'm about...

Yet another big day for the Cdn dollar. Where does it stop? Bank of Canada lowered it's growth estimate for 2008 for the Cdn economy to 2.3% from 2.6%. Should give it some room not to raise rates. Also, Cdn inflation should be non issue given that Cdn retailers are lowering prices to...

Another poor day. TWS didn't seem to be working quite right. What's going on? Anyone from IB care to comment? This seems to be a general problem.

I was running into the exact same problem on Friday. Hope it's corrected by Monday. Keep us posted as to any resolution to this issue. Frustrating.

Nice additional comments. You have certainly provided some good information on the bear side. I'm indifferent as to which way it goes, only out to make a buck. For now, it seems we might be in a speculative blow off top which could take the Cdn dollar to 1.10. Who knows? I certainly...

Hi Scri: A Cdn dollar short is a very tough trade to call. From a Cdn's perspective, here are some things you may wish to consider also: (a) the Cdn government has been running very large budget surpluses. This year it will clock in around $13 billion. Positive. (b) on Tuesday...

Thanks. It's the weekend so I'm not too worried about it right now. If it's the same on Sunday, I'll be a little irate. I like IB and find they offer a good product. BUT, I'll have to say that the past two weeks have been rather sketchy when it comes to reliability. I've only been with...