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I wonder if a principal owner of a prop firm also trades, isn't that a conflict of interest. Would you feel comfortable if say people at large online brokerage firm looked over their customer's accounts and traded off that info. Does this happen?

i believe the concept is viewership. it could be anything, friendster.com, whatever.. as long as people go there. maybe that is worth 10 billion in people's eyes.

maybe this is forcing americans to think about education. education that is inspired by people, and not the government.

i notice they talk about housing bubbles about 5 times a day. had some wharton professor on before, they talking about the 10 year yield. i was thinking.. if there was a housing catastrophe caused by a rising yield, wouldn't that smack the yield right back down. think the only thing that will...

you are 100% correct.

if the markets were female, then we'd all be up size.

the higher price of oil has been offset by our trade imbalance with china who are manufacturing everything at a fraction of our labor costs. also, the U.S. transformed from a manufacturing nation to a service nation years ago. dunno about inflation, a hotdog in the city is still a buck and so...

i dunno.. is a piece of cardboard with mickey mantle on it worth $80,000? is a ferrari 360 modena worth $350,000?

remember the kid who lived in a bubble?

Approximately an hour ago, Atlanta Fed President Guynn said that: "In some markets -- I won't name individual cities in the Southeast -- the activity in residential real estate looks pretty speculative to me and the makes me very uncomfortable. I don't think this is sustainable. There is a very...

let's see the mj trials. people think they can get away with anything in ENTERTAINMENT. think hank rollins is betting on mj 1 out of 7 lascivious acts from a previous thread.

if you are not happy with what you are making, then you should concentrate on what you are making.

daytrading investment in downtrend, hedgefund investment in uptrend. with so many hedge funds starting nowadays, does anyone have an idea on what % are succeeding? looks like top daytraders moving into hedge fund area since last year.

little off topic, but i think there it is myth that some sort of institutional consortium decided to move positions in a more subtle manner via smaller orders to create lower volatility. my theory is that compared to previous years, there just aren't as many situations where they are forced to...

i used to trade next to this chinese guy who would cluck like a chicken with his arms and all when he was in the money. he was a freak, but this guy made some ridiculous money. lots of "freaks" out there in trading.

well that's because the numbskulls down on the floor said the markets would reopen for final prints. all of this reminded me of the old worldco platform.

my sentiments, exactly.. i'll go further and say i believe we are at the cusp of an enormous global economic expansion.

this is gonna get real messy tomorrow morning...

would imagine difficult for discretionary, but quite possible with program, blackbox, etc. ie, trades 500-1000 stocks at once, 500 shares each long & short mix, lower systemic risk.

this time it's the same as usual. hi p/e stock makes highs, bears creep out of cave. will short squeeze them about 4 or 5 times. they give up saying never will touch this stock again or that it's bs. climax run to all time highs. then stock sells off, finds support, consolidates, rallies a...