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I go to the Detached Trader which is more on the macro, currency side. He sometimes posts stuff on stocks as well. One of the better blogs out there. Here it is: www.detachedtrader.com

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20051216p2a00m0na009000c.html Tokyo man rakes in 563 million yen from Mizuho stock blunder A 24-year-old man made a profit of 563 million yen after buying thousands of shares mistakenly offered for only 1 yen each in a massive botched stock trade...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=aUvPRGqzqUNQ&refer=japan Nikko Citigroup, Other Brokerages May Return J-Com Profits Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Nikko Citigroup is considering returning money it made after Mizuho Securities Co. bungled a trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange debut...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113431858095219566.html?mod=home_whats_news_us Exchange made botched trade worse By YUKA HAYASHI and ANDREW MORSE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 12, 2005 TOKYO -- The Tokyo Stock Exchange said the malfunctioning of its own trading...

Mizuho Says Typing Error Sparked $3.5 Billion in J-Com Trades Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Mizuho Securities Co., the brokerage arm of Japan's second-biggest bank, said a typing error by its trader sparked $3.5 billion of share trades in J-Com Co., a company valued at $93 million. ``We deeply...

AFX News Limited 'Missing' China copper trader in police custody in Beijing - report 11.21.2005, 03:24 AM BEIJING (AFX) - The State Reserve Bureau copper trader who built up large short positions on the London Metal Exchange and then disappeared is now in police custody, the Economic...

LMAO, I believe the "taking the bus" or suicide long trade is looking attractive to "Liu"

LMAO, waiting for the Rogue Trader 2 movie, especially with the "Missing" headline on the trader.

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=22&art_id=5668&sid=5473642&con_type=1 Mystery over copper bets China's state metal-stockpiling bureau declined to comment on a report in The Wall Street Journal Asia that a government copper trader is missing after placing "big" bets on...

McKinsey lead Enron into collapse. The CEO Jeff Jeffrey Schilling was from McKinsey and they brought an entire barrage of consultants over to Enron before taking it into the ground. The corrupt and misguided "Asset Light" strategy all started at McKinsey and was praised as genius in the...

Also should be able to permanently turn off the hot keys on IB for buy and sell orders vs doing it everytime you log on------a risk of a massive $ blunder.

When in the hell will IB have a "change from open" option to differentiate from change from close in % terms?

two buildings coming down is not comparable to an entire city under water. This is a federal responsibility, under federal jurisdiction, no way to blame blacks for this massive failure. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Guliani, and the bias and racist "refugee, "them" "That place" "those people"...

Came into today net short.

LOL, love the diversity of thought on the board, so refreshing.

Who said someone was initiating a short right now or tomorrow, traders knew about this hurricane on Friday.

Shorting Market, shorting insurance companies, or Long OIL, is Hoping Katrina gets WORSE and causes massive damage morally Problematic?

This bounce was on much less vol than the 3 downside days. There is a difference between MRK and GM . Before Friday's verdict, less than 1% of the MRK 2.2 billion share float was short. MRK has about 4X the float of GM. At the time of the GM squeeze, there was not a normal short position in the...

A.H. Robbins Co. In June 1970, the A. H. Robins Company, manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, acquired rights to a new contraceptive for women. The Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine device, was a safer method of pregnancy prevention than the birth control pill and could be used by the vast...

If you think institutions don't defend their massive long exposure in stock and options to try to create a floor in the falling stock or trade it most advantagous to their risk exposure you my friend are letting your emotions and ignorance overide reasoning. If everyone sells as they wish...