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After Castro dies, there should be a big influx of people back to the island. Viva La Revoluccion!

They're very good at developing baseball players.

Moving average crossovers tend to work well during smoothly trending markets. They don't work well with choppy markets. Under-trade at first and then gradually increase your position size as you become comfortable with it. That's all that can be said about it.

As WinDiff said, if your "method" is good, you can expect your financial backers to piggy-back, front-run, coat-tail and pirate your system. If it's good, bankroll it yourself anyway you can.

The July-13th session was topsy-turvy ride all by itself.

The bulls want $30/share. The bears want $21/share. $27/share seems like a good target in order to re-trace the entire downmove from earlier in the year. We'll see.

Oh God................The market should be able to get down to 1265 before the end of October. Stay tuned.

(1) 9,624? (2) 47,158? Trends? The number of active investors ebbs and flows with the general market. It peaks at market-tops and bottoms-out at market-lows. Sources? Contact: the IRS for information off of people's schedule-D's, Schwab, Merrill, Ameritrade/Waterhouse, IB et al.

Like you said, averaging 20-to-30% per year over atleast a 20-year period will put you in the Pantheon of all investors. The "big problem" is overcoming the inexperience, undercapitalization and overconfidence that everybody has in the beginning. You'll probably have to generate triple-digit...

Since 1998? That's called "small sample bias". September and October have generally been the worst months for the market based on long-term data. The biggest and best meltdowns have occurred during those months. The "Sell in May and go away" adage is being replaced with "Sell in May, stay sober...

Doing a "bear raid" is easier. You buy a lot of put options on a stock. Those short-put holders will want to short-sell the stock in order to hedge. The down-tick rule might stall their ability to do that at advantageous price levels, until after the stock takes a plunge and a big buyer emerges...

If you're really "intrigued" by this, focus on how the bond market behaves leading up to major reports, auctions, FED meetings & window-dressing periods. Whatever happens afterward might appear to make more sense. Look into it!

Oh sure. You'll have that Ferrari alright. If worse comes to worse, you can always get the 1/32nd plastic scale model or the HotWheels die-cast mini. Zoom, zoom, zoom!

Contact the CME Marketing, Education and Brochure departments via telephone or in-person. They should have boxes of those things somewhere on the 9th or 11th floor. Futures Magazine had an option strategy tear-out poster that you're describing in an issue from a couple of months ago. Contact...

If I'm understanding you correctly........what should you do if you have a profitable position that's going to get more profitable because of the "lock"? For example: you're long soybeans, they're locked up-limit, 50-cents higher at $7.50/bushel, (purely hypothetical). During the current...

Is it "CL", all by itself?

Relax! Take a cold shower. This month's stock outflows are negligible. Taxable bond funds must be in a "bubble" because of their constant inflow of money.

The existing firms have to be earning decent money which is attracting new competitors to the arena. A good meltdown will wash out a lot of them all at once. We'll see.

When a market "locks limit", I'm talking about futures contracts, it's not the end of the world. (1) First off, try to be stopped-out of losing positions before the limit is touched. (2) Look at where the at-the-money "synthetics" are trading to get an idea of how far the market is trading...

Hmmm, neat-o. Trillions of dollars trying to buy the same stuff at the same time. These funds claim to focus on "cash flow" and buying "value". If you believe that publically-held companies use "aggressive" accounting methods, how can you really find value in the market? If these funds engage in...