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Does anyone else not think,irregardless of the fact that 99% of realtors are total scumbags,that 5-6% is a pretty steep fee to charge to sell your house? Maybe if they hadn't have been so greedy during the boom and cut their fees in half seeing as they were selling absurd amounts of property...

OK.I've been trading for many years.I've browsed through Elite Trader for a while but have only recently started to post and so have actually been spending more time here in general. I know the world is not a happy place at the moment but why are so many threads here so morbid and...

I stumbled across this rare,unseen footage the other day. It's taken from the White House kitchens way back in 2001 while Bush jr. and Greenspan were upstairs talking about their strategy going forward........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YifkXfi5IQ

Which ones?The ones who listen to Cramer?

The beauty of anonymous trading.You can't.Also,what's the difference between a professional and an individual?If the 'professionals' had a clue then the banking system wouldn't be in this mess.They're just gamblers with deeper pockets. Also,not every buy or sell trade is going outright long...

Don't you buy boullion in cubes?:)

Here's an interesting article which outlines the predicament facing the EMU project entitled : 'Who is going to bail out the Euro?' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3161588/Financial-Crisis-Who-is-going-to-bail-out-the-euro.html A very dangerous situation...

Just my opinion but I think it would make the dollar very strong. If the Euro ceased to exist and the participating countries went back to their old currencies/interest rates there would be some safe-haven buying in sterling but being so inter-linked with Europe there would be a really strong...

I don't know how Trichet slips under the radar without getting totally slated. The last move ECB did was a raise and not that long ago,now a panic 50bps cut.Surely this must go some way to demonstrate how little he understands what he is in charge of and how he doesn't have his finger on the...

Wow! That's a pretty long word................ ................for a woman:)

That's a fair point. Fundamentally,what's the difference between giving a hooker a small amount of cash to bend over and take one or getting your girlfriend to chug down a large,protein-packed portion of man-gravy as a 'thankyou' for that expensive gift?

I could be wrong but I think you're way off the mark there. Perceptions formed of women at an early age are very important and if you're unlucky enough to have your first intimate experiences with either a crazy stalker or a tramp then it's easy to lose respect for women in general and hard...

The sexual position formerly known as the '69' is to be re-named the '96' Due to inflation,the cost of eating out has gone up!

Maybe Lehman were big players in the FTSE? I never realised FDAX and Z were as busy as one another. I always thought DAX future was much bigger than FTSE future in just about every way,open interest,daily volumes,trader participation,the lot. Oh well,you live and learn.Hope it picks up...

No-one wants to play any more. Until this bail-out plan is settled people don't want to get in to new positions - It's traded the same volume today as the DAX,both about 75K as of now,pretty quiet everywhere. Also,a lot of people got badly burnt when the plan was rejected. Once...

Whoever said the Germans don't have a sense of humour?

When interest rates were cut last time there were more banks that hadn't written down so many billions and even then the new rates were not passed on to the customer. Now with banks merging and some disappearing altogether there is less competition.Any rate cut would not be passed on and...

OK,so if the chain goes thus >pension funds are chasing a return that low risk investment just won't cover and it would be unreasonable to just ask the senior citizens to put an extra jumper on when it's cold >they in turn call on the expertise of some hedge funds who are trading...

So it is motivated by greed really.These funds can't make an assumption of 8% a year because rates were generally higher in the 70s to 90s.Things change.In 1998 I bought a 2 year bond in the UK and got a 12% annual return for that time period.I can't do that now.If pension funds need to take on...

I also think that electronic trading,in hindsight,was developed prematurely.When trades are executed with total anonymity and you hear about HFs just switching on their programs in the morning and only checking sporadically throughout the day to see how much they are up/down it has to take some...