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I'm not 100% sure in other markets, but in the stock market, it means you trade with YOUR money and no margins/borrowed funds. Of course, you have to have a margin account to do options, but you only trade to the limit of the cash you have in the account, and can always cover with your own...

Whatever. I have been digging into my nickels to buy long today:). LOL! I bought this crazy little penny stock an hour ago ... $.23 a share (OKME)... I was worried that I wouldn't get an all or nothing fill, it's so puny. Eheh. I bought at .23, and it's at .30 now. Even if it dumps tomorrow...

Well, I think there may be a small correction soon after the elections, whoever wins. But I think it's going UP if the Dems win, and will peter out or go back to wishy washy if the Repubs win. Look at the 2000 election when we got Bush. ARGH. But the Dems should win... In either case...

Whitster... I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to say here. Are you trying to tell us that we're about to have a gigantic correction:)?

I will take a look at worden. Have you guys taken a look at ThinkorSwim's analysis software? It's pretty nice if you do any options trading too. I only have a small account there, which I use to buy puts and calls on (to cover, so it's a losing account by intention), but it gives me some nifty...

This is actually an interesting thought.... The data we are using to do our 'analysis'... how accurate is it? Consider, garbage in, garbage out. I don't bother with data from the public news sources, because I find it often skewed, biased, manipulative and wrong. Where I get data from...

Per S&P's 500 Industry Leaders (from S&P subscription services) the 3 month leaders (by returns) are: 1. Internet Retail 37.8% 2. Tires & Rubber 35.7% 3. Photographic Products 28.2% 4. Food Distributors 27.5% Trucks doesn't appear on the list, and Airlines are at the bottom of the...

Hrm. That's odd. According to my Research, TODAY's (Nov 6 2006) sector changes by price and volume are: 1.37% - Information Technology 726.2 mil 1.35% - Consumer Discretionary 274.7 mil 1.34% - Financials 201.3 mil 1.27% - Health Care 1.04% - Energy 1.11%...

"this is a "value rally" wherein the stocks that are doing best are of a different nature, sectors, capitalization etc. to a large extent than the last one" Um... so far.... The rally in 1998 began with 'value'... which then stagnated as tech, biotech, telecom, internet stocks took over...

Whitster, I appreciate your analytical mind... and I see what you are trying to say. Maybe I'm not conveying what I'm trying to say very well. My point is, what makes the market interesting for me IS the lumps and bumps. I don't want them smoothed out. The lumps are where I make money, and...

I think I know what you're trying to say. As a 'predictor', if the market were predictable thru looking at one set of numbers... it would not be again, just so no one could find an edge that way, since anything that worked consistently would immediately be exploited out of existence. I had...

I already saw RSP, and charted it earlier. I forgot to mention that. I don't see a huge difference frankly. Yes, it did not do the giant bubble of 98-2000, and the subsequent 01-03 fall of the $SPX, because it gives equal weighting..... but what's the point of equal weighting? The REASON...

I don't understand this 'zero sum game' idea. Lets say you want to buy a new painting for your living room from an auction. There's several lithographs for auction, all of which are differently numbered but identical. On the first, there are 4 bidders. The price is driven up til everyone...

Sort of, I buy puts when I'm happy with my profits. Then, I can keep my stock as it goes higher, and I don't lose anything if it crashes. The higher the stock goes, the more money I make, but I have no downside either. I lose my put money sure... it's a pittance for the insurance. It's...

Um... yes.... the housing market's been collapsing around everyone's ears for the last year... where have you been?

Hrm... I might be willing to wager a small sum that my sheepyness has led to a larger balance sheet than your intellectual trading has led you:).

Well, one of the articles I read, on Forbes today, said that the reason everyone now thinks prices are way undervalued. "The nature of the private equity offers that came down today, which included Bill Gates’ and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal's offer for Four Seasons, served to...

Well, I've never heard of a SPEWI, nor has Google, go look:)

Pathetic? I know quite a few individuals who are putting money from real estate sales into the stock market (Mutual Funds). There's no where else to put it with Real Estate as rocky as it is now. Individuals *I* know, in *my* part of the country may not indicate a trend, so I ask, what are those...

You're kidding? I'm up nearly 100% since the beginning of the year, most of it from the last 3 months. You mean someone DIDN"T make money these last 3 months :eek: ?