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tell me something. why are german banks and banks all over europe in this much trouble when it's u.s. morgages that are defaulting? did all these banks buy into the u.s. cdos and credit derivatives?

how do i check bandwidth usage in windows xp? do i need to download anything?

which hedge fund do you guys think it is?

why china?

who was withdrawing the $500 billion in that hour or two? that's what i want to know.

are those Entenmann's cakes and doughnuts in those photos? shouldn't the shelters try to provide nutritious food instead?

i'm asking when do you use the word "sterling" as opposed to "pound." do i say "I have 20 sterling in my wallet." or "I have 20 pounds in my wallet."

when do you refer to your currency as "sterling" as opposed to "pound?"

looks like it was all based on the housing bubble and people lieing about their income to take out loans. it may be that things are so bad right now because things never got better in the first place. maybe we never recovered from the slump in 2000-2002.

why isn't payment for order flow pre-arranged trading?

Study shows upwards of 80% of hedge fund employees never actually knew what the word “hedge” meant Chicago, IL—A recent study conducted by the Gallop Group showed that of 5,000 hedge fund employees surveyed during 2006-2007, 83% of respondents were unable to correctly define the word...

why are locals doing half the size. the original post said locals are trying to double their size. also, the original post seems to suggest that going to 1/2 tick helps the black boxes and these black boxes just put 50 lots on each side of the spread. so it seems that these black bloxes are...

i'm sorry but he didn't mention anything specific other than the market lost volume in general and the GBP depreciated. i thought he was saying that the move to 1/2 tick caused the volume to drop.

help me understand something. why did volume drop so much? you're a market maker, right? before when it was full tick, you made money buying at the bid and selling at the ask? to do that, you needed other people to buy and sell at the market. now that it went to half tick, why did those...

clarification: i'm talking about realized gains and losses. on unrealized gains and losses, i don't think i have a stronger feeling one way or the other. i think this is because i "know" that it's the eventual realized numbers that will matter.

My pain per dollar loss seems to be greater than the happiness per dollar gain. For example, I feel more pain from losing $1 than the happiness I feel from making $1. Do you all feel this way too?

who's the broker?

i understand that they are not borrowing the shares first before they short. however, in my example, you can see that as long as they simply buy the shares back in the open market, no new shares are created. before the naked short, there were 100,000 shares outstanding. after the naked...

flytiger, i don't understand your answer. i think i'm asking a simpler question. in my example below, it seems that phantom shares are not created if the hedge fund simply buys 100 shares in the open market for delivery. is this correct?

i still don't understand how phantom shares are created when a naked short sale happens. here's the scenario. a hedge fund naked shorts 100 shares of Company A at $10 per share. the buyer of these shares is a mutual fund. a few days pass and the hedge fund needs to deliver the shares...