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It would be better if those firms' profitability occured during a raging bull market, similar to the late-1990's, when the general public was making money. The S&P-500 treaded water last year. The bankers and traders should keep quiet about their bonuses until the general market has a...

Uranium Futures?? Oh God! Don't trade them! It's hell when you get delivered.

?????............. Johnny Walker Black Label, Gold Label, Green Label or if you got a big bonus, go all the way for the Blue Label!

It was a "noon balloon". The market should retrace it all back. We'll see!

Speculative systems require a higher profit/loss ratio to be considered successful. The big profits account for the entire profitability of the method. The small losses and small gains should offset each other. Arbitrage-trading should have a high percentage of profitable trades. There should...

Gosh, pray for more Oil/Meal spreading & Bean selling to weigh on the meal to get it into the gap but then it'll probably reverse when it gets too far out of line. We'll see what happens Monday morning. Get out before the USDA/Crop Report.

The answer to your 3 questions is "yes". A "significant" low would be defined by a low price that is preceded and followed by a higher low, depending on the time-frame you're using. More precisely, you can make distinctions between intra-day, daily, weekly and monthly lows based upon the length...

The increased purchases were made by the US Mint & Treasury in preparation to manufacture the new & larger 2-cent penny coin.

A "price breakout" usually refers to a market moving away from a previously established price range. A "volatility breakout" can mean either: (a) a market is trading with a higher daily/weekly/monthly price range than normal or (b) the implied volatility on the options is moving higher, probably...

Hypothetically, to earn 22% half of the time and lose 8% the other half of the time is a great system. You're earning almost 3 times as much as you're losing. In real-time, you can expect to earn less and lose more. In calculating the average gain and loss, are there any large numbers that...

The kiddie pool?........The triple-A leagues?.........The Farm System?..........The CBA? What you're thinking of is called the Mid-America Commodity Exchange. They still trade smaller-sized grain contracts They might have a bond contract too. If you're badly undercapitalized, it's a better place...

The extreme bullish sentiment is occuring at ~4-year highs in the market. Thanks for the sell signal. Index fund buying tends to support that also. Money managers tend to be more bullish on large-cap issues more often because those stocks have the most influence on the benchmark indices, i.e...

I don't keep a record but I do remember them well.......that surprise Fed easing back in October 1998............returning from the men's room and looking up at the board and seeing the Dow Jones up ~400 points in the span of 10 minutes. The same thing happened again in January and April 2001...

Oh God! To be 20 years old again and majoring in electrical engineering at Sam Houston Institute of Technology.......... ah yes, those were the days. Anyway, is the $30,000 you're talking about your tuition money or an inheritance? You may want to trade futures instead of stocks in order to...

Sacre Blue Beaujulais!!

Look at the stocks that are making 52-week highs in the Wall Street Journal or Investor's Daily stock tables. If you're interested in forecasting, I'm hoping that the downturn culmination of the 4-year cycle in the Fall is super-bearish. Bide your time until September & October!

For offsetting transactions, that may be true. For initiating transactions, it may not be true. Contact your broker to be exactly sure.

??????...........SPY settles at 3PM, ESH6 settles at 3:15PM. A lot can happen during those 15 minutes, especially on a Friday & an expiration day.

Oh God! The dreaded "Texas Hedge"! The farmers should keep 95% of their pooled money for hedging their crops and merely use the remaining 5% to buy deep-out-of-the-money August Soybean call options at the end of March. If a "weather market" develops, the calls will explode in value and provide...

??????................I'd guess that a lot of that net worth increase came from real estate gains. If real estate does head "south", be very very careful!!