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if you are in a bearish position on CSCO or the indexes then the risk/reward has moved against you, and this is a good time to hedge.

Its stressfull, its expensive, it requires watching the market like a hawk every minute, and in the long run you won't make any more money than if you were just swing trading. Of course, buy and hold types say the same thing about swing trading vs. what they do, so its all a matter of...

100:1 seems very extreme, although i don't have any statistical analysis to disprove it. I would take that bet with a small amount of money, much better than lottery tickets.

you people are mentally masturbating yourselves with this thread. None of this is usefull for making money.

when a man as rich as Milken goes to jail, you know damn well that he is 100% guilty.

If you added up all his profits and all his losses he would not have anything to show for all his years as a fund manager. All he ever did was make huge bets early in his career and got lucky, this is historical fact that you can look up for yourself.

India does not give a shit about israel, and there are plenty of moslems in india.

get TC2000

people complaining about lack of volume are probaby not familiar with options. A volume of 40 contracts on an option is not bad. Also spreads of 25 cents or more are common with options. For people like me who just want to make a directional bet on a stock, the SSF's seem clearly superior. Its...

glad to see somebody is playing these things, they seem pretty cool. I too played options and the time decay and the spreads ate me alive so I had to stop. I think my next speculative foray will be to play SSF's one at a time and see what happens.

we are oversold and as soon as the war starts or sadam leaves all the us indexes and the dollar are going to rally.

this concept that holding period for an investment is what matters is a little nuts to me. I buy something and if it goes down too much i sell it, regardless of how long I have owned it. If it goes up I keep it.

since it happened on sat i guess people had time to accept it. It did hit a couple of aerospace companies however.

we aren't going to hit the saudi's as long as the current regime is in place, they are very well plugged in with congress and the bush's, and Clinton didn't mess with them either.

archangel is right about the space elevator, it can't be done with today's technology. Of course the space shuttle program is on its last legs and we need something new or else end the manned space program. the practical alternative is..................THE SPACE PLANE. The space shuttle has...

it hit the bottom of this downswing on thursday. time for an upswing.

definitely looking good today, time to start the upswing. EK is bouncing hard and helping the dow.

well i took some longs in a couple dow stocks this week and i'm not stopped out yet, so we will see :)

maybe i'm an optimist but there is still a good chance for a rally. with all the bad news that has come out we should have hit the october low by now.

a lot of sh*t hit the fan this week, but dia and spy are hanging in there pretty well.