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It is total fear and economic warfare... :D

Most commentators say they have never seen anything like this ... and I guess they're all correct. Supposedly some investing department lost USD 2bn on the AUD as well... Citic-something, I think ... was on Bloomberg UK just now.

davidmaria1, yes - that is sure some tanking happening out there... Supposedly - spreads have been pretty wide as well. :)

See also the recent book "The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right" http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/1323924642-65585163/title~content=t727483385~db=all Google books - limited viewing of the book online: http://books.google.com/books?q=The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the...

In the US - swear words are banned from the media between 06:00 to 22:00 by federal regulation (law?)... and now Microsoft takes it further with censorship within online gaming and player voice communication. Take a look at neo-conservatives and censorship... or Cheney and secrecy. It's all very...

Knowing that huge mergers and layoffs are in store for the US car manufacturers - it truly looks insane to bet on them now - but a stubborn mindset does not change easily... it mostly crashes and burns.

Neo-conservatives subscribe to a whole ideology... "Normal conservatives" of course have coinciding arguments, goals and viewpoints on many issues, but the ideology-driven people really are not in sync with the more centrist populace. Obama seems quite moderate overall, which explains a lot of...

Looks like the mood is still careful, fearful and thinly covered... You can see this over smaller timeframes very pronounced. I think of markets a little like "I like to tun in pack with similar minded"... hehe, so that means I don't particularly sync well with the current crowd - and possibly...

These market conditions we are having undoubtedly provide a lot of opportunities, but sometimes behave a "little unpredictable." Lots of outrage in the populations increasing as well, with unrest. Asia and Israel are seeing lots of extreme acts - and it is interesting how related these might be...

trackstar, yes - I knew there would be more pain for equities --- but I guess I had underestimated the repatriation effects... I guess I will have to hone my "shorting Euro" skills too, but I would rather stick to picking up bounces - although those seem pretty bleak right now. :) As for...

Got a massive realized loss on the Euro... €-100k (killed all trades, also long-term) ...and it seems the shear amount of news today was too much for investors, which led to repatriations in scores -- and this drawdown mechanism from the carry trades etc unrolled and general fear. Trying...

Hmm, that doesn't look good - 3x trades with €-9k to -11k sitting there right now with around -120pips to -130pips. Certainly a nice foot in a mouth... :( Improving a 10-15pips as I type and roughly €1k on each, but still not good... and the one with a stop drew me down around €-4k. So...

Just set off another at 134.03 ... so then I'm pretty loaded to be blunt, but set two of them with stops now ... Off I go now... hot knives before bed and all... not exactly my thing. :) 2x for +90pips , and 2x for +75pips... one with a -40pip stop, the rest stopless and all at €1mn, so a...

All the waves and trading opportunities have been to the downside of the Euro since shortly after the close of yesterday's US session... JP Morgan mentioned on Bloomberg during the Asian session that there looks to come substantial Forex intervention to shore up the growth in Asia - they see...

When you spend 65-80% of your time "investing" in a mindset and - frankly - "biasing yourself," before you start trading, it is understandable that you get emotional. From a completely objective standpoint - you are building up expectations, and then you have little/no guarantee that these...

I'd be pretty sure this is a so called "urban legend"... hoax, factoid, fabricated propaganda... :p

Yes, I remember "23"... Also - if you are really into quantitative analysis like that... I think you should look more into the nature and the philosophy of mathematics - to understand what you are really looking at. Even math philosophy and metaphilosophy are very useful...

When all you want is really someone to "play ball with" and get impulses from -- spend more time with introspection, as well as getting external impulses from whatever else you find interesting at any moment. History Channel and Nat Geo are really great sometimes to get the ball moving... You...

GabbyJay, I think it's utopia to try to find someone who will be so in sync with yourself that you can pass that "time of silence" together, when it suits both of you - as well as clicking totally with your personality etc. Furthermore, you would need to be extremely aware of your own...

I just read you last page of posts in this thread. Just some comments... It's good to continuously question oneself - but you also need to have some confidence, and grow this confidence in what you are doing. It also seem you are somewhat emotional while, and that can be a bit tricky to...