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just reading 'THE GREAT CRASH 1929' by John Kenneth Galbraith. thoroughly recommend this to everybody. its right up there with STOCK OPERATOR. i thought you might like this one. front page of the Wall Street Journal September the 9th 1929 a few weeks before the crash. ' price...

thats got to be the definition of irony. cant wait for the senate committee panel investigating the fall of these companies next year when this topic comes up. senator - can you explain chairman why you used the company buyback facility to prop up the share price why you personally sold...

i must confess i am a surprised at the markets resilience to such overwhelming bad news. the figures dont really seem to be that healthy and the sub prime news seems to be getting contagious. but the market wont go down. if the market is not going down on these facts then i can only...

rumour has is that their caught on stgyen and trying to unwind the position. its off three big figures approx. effectively thisis a yen carry trade position.

there should nothing to worry about as all hedge funds according to regulators and central bankers are hedged on all positions by way of arbitrage. i.e. long one unit of market and short one unit of market and make billions of dollars by minute differenecs in price. yeah...

imo prop shop training is not worth anything at all. they might tell you the general principles of trading and product information but they will generally pull a few selected charts of various outright charts or spread charts and say something along the lines of ' well if you had bought the...

THIS SHOULD BODE WELL FOR THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS WHO SEEM TO MASSAGE THE NON FARM PAYROLL FIGURE EVERY MONTH. I CANT EVEN REMEMBER THE LAST TIME WE HAD A NEGATIVE NUMBER. THE US ECONOMY HAS ADDED OFFICIALY SO MANY JOBS NO ONE SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED. LETS SEE WHAT THEY DO WITH...

ANOTHER CLASSIC. THE CHAIRMAN BAILING ON HIS OWN SHARES. NO DOUBT PUTTING OUT A CNBC INTERVIEW AT THE SAME TIME SAYING THE MARKET IS A BUYING OPPORTUNITY. THIS IS A MESS AND WILL GET A LOT WORSE. http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/25191.htm

A GOOD GAUGE OF THE ONCOMING SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS. CHANCE TO PICK UP SOME NICE PROPERTIES CHEAP HERE. CASH IS KING. http://www.ml-implode.com/

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a_3NewFCHPQ0&refer=us AND YOU CAN CALL ME AL.

'; to be honest as much as i hate to admit it that sounds like a black box system/ running. i see that kind of thing all the time in other markets. there is nothing wrong with offering against your bid to see who does what. crossing im not sure on the rules. it sounds like one...

you are talking about an entire different operation. yes central banks participate in a lot of markets due to positions built by natural physical business e.g. gold ,grains currencies etc.there is nothing wrong with that. what we are talking about is different. the fed has no commercial...

they do not admit it but they have no comment. its like special forces operations in the military. we all know it goes on but offically they do not exist. follow my link to the us treasury page. they openly admit what they do...

anybody who has traded these markets for a number oy years must reckonise the price action is staggering. massive points drops with bearish news everywhere and then a miraculous bounce with buying from nowhere. it staggers me the amount of time these markets bounce back in the face of...

Watanabe added there were no statistics to gauge the size of carry trades, he estimated the size of yen carry trades to be several 10 trillions of yen, around half of what he said some market players estimate - $1 trillion. Later comments were more specific: "It depends on the definition of...

A GUY IS WALKING ROUND BELFAST ( NORTHERN IRELAND ) WHEN A MAN COMES UP BEHIND HIM AND PUTS A GUN TO HIS BACK. CATHOLIC OR PROTESTANT HE ASKS? THE GUY THINKS CAREFULLY BEFORE ANSWERING. JEWISH HE RESPONDS. THE MAN WITH THE GUN SAYS I MUST BE THE LUCKIEST ARAB IN BELFAST.

I THINK THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF MORE AL JAWBONING. http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN0724106020070307

so gross finally joins the yen carry trade camp and over flated housing market camp. http://europe.pimco.com/LeftNav/Featured+Market+Commentary/IO/2007/IO+March+2007.htm

greenspan apparently said to reuters overnight - 'that the yen carry trade cannot last forever and it has to end at some point'. a few points here. (1) greenspan never said much before when he was chairman - fact. (2) he is now more vocal than he has ever been - fact why? (3)...

one morning in october 1998 i sat down at my trading desk for the japanese bank i worked for in london. i was trading usdyen then with a decent size customer basel. a normal range of the day was 25 pips on a quiet day to a 100 pips on a busy day. overnight usdyen has sold off a few big...