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lol - polite way to say you are an idiot.

with TIPS it works a bit differently. The coupon rate is in fact <b>fixed</b> - it is the principal that is adjusted to CPI. TIPS holder also owns European put on cumulative CPI striked at 0% maturing on the bond maturity date.

markets and popularity goes hand in hand - and right now there are not many people that would say they love America... It seems however that you overstate how much people care about US. I believe that the <u>slow</u> demise of US (e.g. as measured by % of world GDP, dollar value, power of...

I consider myself a macro trader despite the term being a little bit vague. In fact I consider anybody a <i>macro trader</i> as long as he/she trades multiple asset classes at the same time with <i><b>one</i></b> particular strategy in mind. You simply try to exploit a particular political...

thanks for explanation <i>thehangingman</i>. I still feel better with long AAPL / short QQQQ strategy. But Yellow Road looks really attractive...:eek:

LOL - of course if you have enough cats left to pay for your stocks....

I do not understand. Do you say that truckers are the only people buying trucker's stock?

actually now I am not sure - Bloomberg still says it occurs on the 2nd. FOMC minutes are definitely on 3rd. Anybody has some clear info?!

ok - postponed to Jan 3rd.

agree. I have more accounts in various locations and the behavior is even different between those accounts - so something with their MD farms. Recently it is becoming much worse again (and I have 8GB connection). e.g. NGs are not properly updating, long illiquid ZQs is a long outstanding...

chicago PMI is today at 10et. You talk about manufacturing for Nov (not PMI for Dec). So something that is lagging rather than leading - i.e. be careful . :cool:

I don't agree with dkw. Doubts are not an issue. The issue is if you have courage to handle them. Only the best can make big steps like that (especially with dependant kids). Without doing the move you will never know if you are better than average. Trading wise it may be that you have an...

sorry for my naive question but hadn't customers of Refco been protected under SIPC (at least)? i.e. first $500k is safe.

you are hopeless. Maybe they will urge to buy only stock that you have in your portfolio...that would be handy

I already did that :D But remember 2001 --> http://money.cnn.com/2001/01/03/economy/fed/ Clearly many things at that time were very different: wealth, stock market, unemployment, spending and even ISM was below 50 for several months. But then we did not have a chairman who was obsessed...

Given what happened exactly 6 years ago I thought it may be a good time to check what people think today. The number may very well be the most important economic event in first half of January. Will Fed panic if they see the number again in lower 40s? If not - why...?

with this attitude you may become a central banker one day. Just remember that inflation has nothing to do with fellatio or phallus.

Adobian you must be on some cheap crack....

With respect to continuous complains about sky-high US house prices I have to smile. I live in London and here a shed in Brixton (shit neighborhood) costs more than penthouse on lower Manhattan. The fact that prices in US went up a lot during past few years does not mean that they are high -...

How do you bet on that, i.e. what are you long/short? I just want to see how you get screwed up.....don't overleverage yourself - otherwise it's going to be your <i>end game</i> :cool: