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Right, thanks to Ebbers and his competition against ATT you and millions of others have enjoyed the benefit of low, low phone rates. But since thousands of GREEDY RETARDS wanted to get rich on the back of Ebbers and MCI and the thing collapsed they're all happy to put him away for 30 years...

I guess the manufacturing sector needs new systems to keep track of the millions they're laying off. :p

Hydro, I somewhat agree. I've said it before that I think the ''trader/investor'' ratio is too high (too many traders, too few real investors) hence the low volatility, etc. On many days most stocks have their daily range put in by the first 30 minutes and just screw around the other 6hrs...

Dell does barely better than breakeven on the low-end consumer line. They do well is on the business side and higher-end consumer.

I agree with most of what you state. However, when you buy insurance, the insurance co. won't control when you die and has no idea if/when your house will burn. However, the options on many of these exchanges cause the underlying stock prices to be artificially manipulated in whatever ways suits...

Preserve who's wealth? Options are zero-sum. Whatever 1 side makes, the other loses, so where's the wealth preservation? With all these exchanges pushing so many options it's *definetely* not in the interest of the small speculator to get involved and not only that, it just means more...

There is nothing special. They did well in the go-go years when they managed less money and now it's just all BS hype.

Oh yeah, Wall St is such a group of honest boys and girls. They follow the law to a T! Pffffffttttttt.....

What effect on producers/consumers does options on 4-5 exchanges based on the same thing like buiders, oil cos, steel, etc have? Other than to generate commissions/fees and other profits for themselves? I just fail to see any economic purpose.

Originally, trading in stocks was sold to the public as a way to raise funds for the start/financing of public companies. But where's the economic benefit in having several options and futures exchanges all offering several copycat indexes. ISE AMEX CBOE BOX PHLX They all offer the...

Let's say I make a market in the S&P's. I sell 1000 contracts at the ASK. Now, instead of buying some random index to lay off the risk, I buy a basket of stocks which my company is already long. That's 1 edge. There's other small edges like that which over time add up to a HUGE difference...

That's a statistical use of the word edge. But in markets, there are other kinds of eges including more ''physical'' edges where on player has a distinct advantage over another.

Maybe if this capilalistic system were more honest to begin with, people like Ebbers would in turn be more upstanding. This society prizes/promotes successful people and then when things go wrong the lynch mob comes. Look who's representing Saddam Hussein...some former US government attorney...

Total garbage is all I have to say. All the exchanges each have their own gambling centers now. The ''hot plays'' (steel, builders, oil, casinos) and the old favorites (semis, pharma, biotech, boxmakers, etc.) Anytime you have so much crap of the same thing to trade, it means things get...

If a 10% drop in value won't bother you much, I'd put into a Latin America fund or index that has no hidden charges/loads. The problem with any recommendations is, if what is being suggested drops, then what? Since it's not your idea to begin with, you'll be *completely* lost as to what to...

Anything that is ''top-performing'' is RARELY low risk. Not possible to have your cake and eat it too.

(Intraday) Indexes from S&P? Dow Jones? Bloomberg? Exchange Indexes? Others

I realise you didn't ask me but in my opinion the simplest explanation is that the ratio of traders to investors is very high. Too many scalpers, daytraders and hedgefunds trying to ring the register every few minutes, obliterating any chance of having any decent trends. Investors, or those with...

One funny thing I've noticed over the years has been the indexes/charts used by magazine editors/writers to get their latest crop of readers all excited in order to renew their subscriptions. For example, a few years ago trading rags used to put up charts of the S&P/e-mini and tell you to buy...

Maybe you you won't like what I'll say but anyway here it is. The stock market is no longer the market of 1, 3, 5, 10 years ago. If I were starting in this market today, well I wouldn't because most of the time it's chop, chop, full of fake moves and rarely any follow-through. Once in a...