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all this hidden orders, dark pools, and market games by telephones or backroom dealings smells of classic hustling on the street, cloak and dagger, just to make few bucks on the trade or beating the market or getting a decent return on capital or making monthly profit quotas.

it's both. speculation, interest rates, AND rising demand. triple whammy. one culpit out--speculation

in some jurisdictions, it's illegal to even scalp concert tickets. the lawmakers or public don't care if you short in making money or prices are low for things they need like gas and wheat.. but when they hear about speculators pushing price of oil to $150/barrel or 300% increase in 1...

do you make money while you are 'waiting' opportunity cost of waiting. financials had temporary technical relief rally from banned on shorting..

that is only $4000/month man why don't you make one trade and make $4000 in a month instead. or make $50,000 in one trade

from what i gather, 80% of traders in the market and in this forum are not professionals

$10,000 with 20:1 margin in futures and stocks 10:1 in stocks that is $200,000 in intra-day buying power. that is what you need for prop trading and daytrading. for swing trading and overnight...SEC margin is maximum 50% margin as a trader, your capital is your time,,,not the...

A professional daytrader should make money just by showing for work. Minimum profit to be pro. daytrader is $500/day consistently without any drawdowns for 20 consecutive days. and account must be under $10,000 with 4:1 margin a pro daytrader should be able to make $500/day with a $10,000...

the money made in in oil is trading oil and finding oil..owning oil as an asset sucks

retail investors/traders are regulated so what is so special about freakin useless hedge funds in the market in terms of margins and limits on position size etc.

stop acting like suck up to Bernanke and Paulson. Bernanke and Paulson are nothing but gov't 'employees' or public servants.. the boss is the people. so they better not fuck-up!

there isn't enough volume in the cash real market to even have an exchange.

these hedge funds do trades by phone and voice and signatures.

the fed had to lend the money. it's one those blue moon events.

The asset backed commercial paper mess was written off as losses in the BILLIONS! commercial paper was sold but is now illiquid or worthless. investment banks had to buy back the subprime from investors or face lawsuits for selling fraudulent bonds.

The strength and buying power and stability of the US dollars is why foreign investors invest in US companies and bonds. The decline in the US dollar is troubling. I guess fundamentals such debt and war debt matters to the real economy.

They aren't stupid...why would they even bother holding US dollars. GE is converted to US dollars when sold.

he made 500 million dollars in his petro china TRADE!!!

he doesn't like to snort coke. he owns coke and made 400% return in 2 years when he bought it. man he made another 400% on petro china in less than 4 years. each position was freaking $400 MILLION... the dude can trade.

4% you might as well put your money in savings account...no risk and is liquid.