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All traders where? On the earth? I'm a trader and didn't get no email.

Did Flat Iron take the money and run or what? What's up with this? http://www.flatirontrading.com/

Are these guys still in business?

What firms use Lightspeed?

What would you consider the best overall prop trading platform and who offers it? I've heard of a few; Sterling, Laser, Redi, Anvil. Haven't used any of them yet and would like some feedback on the quality.

Don't trade the news, or you will lose. Buy(sell) the rumor then sell(buy) the news.

Does anyone have a trading office with space for rent in the Ft.Lauderdale to West Palm Beach area?

Level II can be deceiving when the MM's and others flash size then take it away because they know people watch it. Learn to read price action through chart patterns.

Or maybe a comedy writer for a late night comedy show. Ya know, the Top Ten List for Letterman or somethin like dat.

Take another look at the chart, you want to be selling at the top, not buying. :p

If it was a picture of him pushing a shopping cart then you'd have something.

This pre-market action just means the market will be in the green by the end of the day. Don't you guys remember back in 2001-2003? It's all just a show so enjoy the entertainment.

What you describe is hedging and not insurance. CDSs are written to specifically protect against default of the bonds. Your nickname explains where you're comming from with that argument though, I understand.

This helps my argument that the CDSs are illegal insurance: Former staff member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Michael Greenberger describes a credit swap in brief: "A credit default swap is a contract between two people, one of whom is giving insurance to the other that he will...

Cramer is an entertainer, just like Limbaugh used to be before I got sick listening to him.

It's called a Ponzi scheme and the US economy has been built on it from the start. It'd be tough to stop it now so we need to have our President, Treasury, and Federal Reserve keep pumping their monopoly money into the economy to delay the inevitable, whatever the hell that's gonna to be.

Tough break. So buy bonds from quality companies like AIG and Lehman. Bondholders are second in line behind secured creditors when a company goes bankrupt though. I think those CDSs are renewed yearly like insurance policies, so don't renew them. By the way, most bondholders who buy the CDSs...

You don't know how the CDS world operates. Listen to the broadcast earlier in this thread, CDSs are insurance with a gimmick. If you don't think they are insurance, then why do holders of corporate bonds buy them for protection against default? Please explain.

Oh, and that nice pretty web site certainly makes the CDSs more ligitimate.

I know they haven't been declared illegal but should and coud be. Since they are insurance against corporate bonds but named something else to subvert the insurance regulations, they are, in my opinion, illegal insurance. If the alternative is to lets these worthless pieces of paper ruin our...