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I love the image that many people have that 'hedge funds' are superior investment vehicles to almost everything else. They're not, apart from a few good ones. It's a pyramid structure like anything else, a few few excellent funds right at the top leading down to the mediocre and then plenty...

Sure looks good on your desk when you use a lump as a paper weight! Gives you a little pick-me-up as well when you polish it and it SHINES even more......... Those that do this will know what I mean:D :D :D :D

There's a fella down my gym with Tourette's and whenever he sees me he keeps flicking the finger and v signs at me, it's funny and he gets all embarrased when I return them:D :D :D :D

Maybe it will reverse, maybe it won't. But remember that Gold is a market that people just love to call highs in. For every 10 top callers there's only 1 who says it goes higher. Been like this ever since the bottom in 2001. I wonder, at some stage over the next several years if this will...

The other point that prospective retail trades think is a massive 'advantage' i the 100-200 leverage on offer. Some advantage that, more like a quick way for the brokers to transfer your wealth to them........

Major Japanese trading house, selling dollars buying euro and putting that money to work in the bobl. Apparantly they wanted to 'goose' the market/players a bit to let them all know there's a new buyer with plenty of cash.

For every 1 investor/trader that expects higher prices there are 20 that keep calling for a top. It's been like this since the start of the bull mkt in 2001. I image there are a lot of frustrated gold bulls out there that are not on this rally. Trying to be too clever and trade in/out...

I can't believe it, someone is actually forecasting gold or gold shares to go higher! This is very strange as 95% of the market (including all the gold bulls) love nothing more than to call tops, tops, tops...... For those of you holding gold/gold shares for the long term, if/when the...

gnome, I bet you never wear a 'jacket', instead you always wear a '$500 jacket':D :D :D :D :D

All this 'mentor' crap is so funny. Folks, for 97% of you all having a mentor means is you've been hooked by the marketing. In fact, which ever marketer first came up with the idea to using the phrase to sell is a genius...........

I know nothing about the finances of this company but I do know 2 things; 1) The sun tomorrow will rise in the east 2) There will be far more to come out of this company before the matter is over. Tip of the iceberg, it always is.........

My advice is simple; However clever you think you are and how ever clever the tax/business schemes that you use, the IRS will get you in the end. Remember they don't have to be one step ahead of you, in fact they can be many steps behind. But they control the rule book and can change it or...

What's it got to do with America? Why not just say 'look at the market rally' The majority of Americans are so fiercely patriotic it's really scary when the world looks at you............ Then add heavy religion, and what have you got? Crikes..........I don't like to go down that...

Well, with these bonds you have to look at whose on either side of the trade. The buyers are generally unsophisticated private investors who generally know nothing about structured products. On the other hand you're got the banks and their experts who've designed said products. So who...

Sure he's put a lot of money in many pockets. And these people rightly reckon he's done a good job. But suppose things don't go well over the next several years and money is taken out of those pockets. Well, in that case I'd bet the same people lauding him now will look for a scape goat...

There's a tiny one in the UK with a promising uranium site in Finland. The company's called Agricola Resoures and is traded on the www.ofex.com market. Horrible bid/offer spread though but these stocks can really motor with the wind behind them.....

Don't know if it's been mentioned before in this thread (it's a long one) but THE best data backup service in my opinion is; www.datadepositbox.com Get up and running in about 3 mins, costs about $0.01 per MB so 500MB costs about $5 a month. Runs in the background so everything is...

As I've said before many funds (hedge or otherwise) are just a front for legally skimming money from clients. Outrageous front end loads, commissions kickbacks, expensive management charges etc etc. Why do you think the industry is lobbying so hard for hedge funds to be sold to the...

Yep, nice post there's a lot more to this game than being able to buy low/sell high. One of the most successful brokers I once new in London was also one of the worst, he couldn't broke for dick but almost every wirehouse wanted to poach him. Always turned up late for work, 2-3 hours for...

Not me, was a broker for a long time, easier money and better money than 90% of all you wannabbes. Just make sure you're not servicing 1-5 lot punks. Saw it all go on first hand right back to the days of 1988, in fact I was as much of a part of it as the guys on the other end of the phone...