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Which type are futures spread trades? I am thinking they are type 2.

You are a looser, day! Get short and be happy!

Those monoline insurers, like MBIA, insure about 1 Trillion worth of muni bonds. If they get downgraded, all the bonds that they insure get downgraded. Many bond investors, like pension plans, are required to buy and hold only highly rated paper. When -- not if -- these muni bonds get downgraded...

Orders have to at least get by the "margin clerk" before they go to the exchange.

I'm guessing volatrendity indicates the direction and magnitude of volatility. Red, green and yellow are also the colors of traffic signals.

Do you have any drills to accompany this indicator? We want more drills.

How can we be sure that orders in the futures markets go to the exchange?

Fed is not averse to an orderly market decline -- 2000-2002 comes to mind. So, I think they will cut at most .25. Some possibility of no cut. This will actually be good medicine for the market. The S&P at 750-950 is an excellent buy.

I know that method. Should I spill the beans?

Didn't I say that one was ragged and the other smooth?

They are so desperate that they had to get him out of bed to go to work before the usual banker's hours.

Yeah. If it were a "method," then they'd all make the same trades, wouldn't they?

They have a lot to do. Making the margin calls for the buying they did Friday has them stretched thin.

Bonds are bubbling at this moment. Prices will fall and rates will go up.

he is trying to make his margin calls.

That could be THE END of US financial markets.

B is striving to maintain the constancy of A? Why is B so ragged and A so smooth?

I know of a C implementation. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tws-c-api I haven't looked at it lately, but when I did it didn't need Microsoft's stuff.

Maybe it's all the junk food that has got people so crazed that they gave up old-time financial sense and started speculating like crazy. Before the junk food explosion, people wouldn't think of getting a 2nd mortgage unless they were desperate.

Even better, after buying all the real estate, the government could bulldoze it into the ground and build dormitories for the people. But the cheapest solution would be to require employers to provide showers and a communal cooking area, along with a sleeping drawer (about 3x4x6 feet) for each...