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The stocks ran up in anticipation of a fed funds rate cut and the accounting certification deadline. Institutions must place their bets ahead of major news releases. That said, I am at a loss trying to explain why NASDAQ was up today, in spite of Goldman's downgrade of SUNW and EMC , and a...

Quoting "Gordon Gekko": "A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place." Take the money and run!

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I netted $5.20 per contract shorting NQ when it broke through yesterday's low this morning. :p

By setting the default order type to "market", and assigning hotkeys to "escape" and "transmit", one can close a position with two keystrokes.

That said, it may take the Dow another decade to regain a single-digit P/E.

"But reading the Economist recently, I was reminded that in Japan in the first two years of its bubble breaking, Japanese real estate -- land and property -- went up even as the Japanese market went down 50%. " (An Interview With Jeremy Grantham, Barron's).

Check this out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1892008645/qid=1027373996/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/002-0200834-5835271

Let's see: - the averages broke under 1998/2001 support on heavy volume. The next support is... off the charts; - the buy-and-pray crowd already badly mauled by the bear is getting hit with Dow 8000 headlines. MF switchboards are going to get real busy tomorrow... As the pace of...

It is a MF conspiracy, man! :D Btw, 10,000 contracts = ~$5,000,000,000. In an industry plagued by redemptions, who might have this kind of change to spare? :confused:

... it is safe to pick a bottom on a day he delivers one.

I loaded up with DIA's and QQQ's near the bottom with an intent to flip 'em tomorrow before lunch. Thanks PPT!

Two front page stories in today's New York Times cover a political angle of the bear market: --- Corporate Abuses Giving Democrats a Campaign Issue By ADAM NAGOURNEY The focus on Wall Street has given a jolt of energy to a party that just a month ago was casting around for issues to...

One out of three recently published investment guides at a local bookstore is bear market related. Three years ago there was only one such a book: "The Bear Market Baloney" by Wade Cook. :D

What kind of (listed) stocks do you trade with IB?

Crossed bid/ask can be for real, especially with heavily, multi-ECN traded tickers such as QQQ, or can be a result of a delayed quote feed from one or more of the exchanges. Unfortunately, which scenario plays out on a given day is hard to tell. SMART routing is anything but. Avoid...

It must be subliminal: my wife does not even know she has an IRA account.

How about Median(High-Low, 10).

Rs7, you may be more right than you think. A few years back I opened Roth IRA accounts for myself and my wife. I have contributed equal amounts to both. Today, her account is twice as big as mine... dis

"Positive mental attitude" is a prerequisite for averaging down. :)