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Exactly. They didn't hate him; they simply used him as a vehicle for as shocking an atrocity as they could come up with. The extremist fringes on all sides ( including Israelis ) are fond of killing children because they know that atrocities against children are unforgivable and are a way...

I come to these findings purely intuitively; it is simply my impresssion that the world of wonders we live in could not evolve from absolute, purposeless chaos, no matter how great the time frame. There is no way to prove the validity of one's beliefs on this matter; it's subjective...

Double-talk. How can there be "two points, both in the now" when the basis of his argument is that "now" is a single point isolated from all other moments? Also, by definition, a trend must consist of more than an isolated moment; literally, "present-trend" is obviously an oxymoron but...

As you indicate, there are piles of people who could cash in here; up, down, or sideways, there could be a lot more transactions. Calm before storm?

Should be profit-taking here. Should be more volume.

The universe has progressed from a state of non-being, as we can understand being, through absolute chaos to its current state in which there is a degree of order so improbable given the initial conditions that we can only take it as self-evident that the universe as it is was intended to be or...

[IfQUOTE]Quote from ProgrammerGuy: I have trade station. The orders from trade station are then routed through a 3rd party broker, and then sent to interactive broker. If you're trading volatile issues via market orders you need extremely fast execution. Maybe you should restructure...

Rising, yes, but it's been a pretty anemic rally so far. If volume doesn't come in soon we'll test Thursday's low shortly. I'd much prefer a rising market but I think it's too early to make the call.

Actually, it's ambiguous.

Good one.

Good points. The dot.com money was 'hot' money that went immediately looking for fresh action and found it in various areas including RE and commodities. The hot money has cooled off and is now being slowly extracted from the various speculative markets and socked away in static...

If we accept your lengthy definition of TA I tend to agree with you; most of it is pseudo science based on arbitrary formulae suggested by neat mathematical relations. But the "archetypal patterns" you mention are definitely of some value; the logic behind them is just common sense...

CAPITAL ONE's in trouble now. Every day something. I vote for 1370. Re the error: Why not just restart the poll? It's a timely question.

In a rising market the transactions tend to occur on the asks; in a falling market the transactions tend to occur on the bids. Hence, in a rising market the ask retreats (upwards), in a falling market the bid retreats downwards.

In a liquid market we have lots of participating buyers and sellers in the same zone. If the buyers have tons of cash but don't want to participate they have little motive to avail themselves of easier credit. Buyers are cautious because things are just too complicated and undefined for...

Confucius sez: A rock is always right... because it can't be wrong.

Scary. Is it inconceivable that a GS or an LEH could go under? All the FED has to work with is easier credit. Can easier credit straighten out balance sheets that only approximate the truth? Financial institutions won't deal with companies whose books are in disarray.

Actually, I'm not Doctor Heidegger - he daid! He in de box! I'm his long-lost grandson, Hans. My dad, Heinrich, was born to Hanna Arendt and Gunther Stern in '34 but Gunther wasn't the father; my dad was a love child of Hanna and Dr. H. It's a long, complicated, completely untrue...

Wow! Exactly 100 votes and it's 64/36. Should stabilize here.

Good post, but what if the liquidity problems persist? Bids will dry up and the market will be sitting on a vacuum. The whole thing could free fall on ordinary volumes. We already see billions of dollars worth of subprime related instruments with no activity due to no bids (or so a...