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net buyer, buyers sleep on pillows, sellers sleep on bricks.

pspr has outlined what happens in the secular (long term) trend. there are days and weeks where the relationships go awry, such as an event like 9/11. in times of panic, people tend to assume the lowest risk profile (understandable) by converting assests into whatever is negotiable, be it...

in reality, it's the public Joe Six Pack Investor that gets suckered but the brokerage industry into believing that even though interest rates are rising, you need to have 30% bonds etc. .. what bullshit. brokerages have big bond houses that need to be fed and what better victims are there...

a buddy of mine in West Texas had this idea of a self wealth creation by building a solar farm and selling the power. I suggested that as Oklahoma trailer parks attract tornados, solar arrays attract brick sized hail stones.

whatever........... the thing has become so politicized that during a record cold day in New York, Al Gore actually blamed the the cold on Global Warming screwing up the weather patterns. Al needs to go sit down someplace.....

OPEC can replenish at the drop of a dime... Saudi alone can support the marginal increase in demand until 2050. The Yankee quarter of Arabia hasn't even been touched. and that's not counting the Caspian and Siberian reserves which are likely as vast as the Middle east. the only driver for...

does anyone really think that OPEC will let alternate energy take market share from them? OPEC can bury the Hydrogen and solar economy with one turn of the crank..... The true suckers are the taxpayers that subsidize this stuff and the government that doles out millions in research grants...

also a fear that the Asians will sit out today's tres. auction and drive short rates up. dollar up . gold down.

if you mess around with services.msc, make sure you back up your data. i don't disable anything but I do set some things to manual. Powertoys for XP is a good place to start tweaking you system. we will hold the tissue paper when you come crying because you hosed your machine.

Uncle Al Greenspan is giving early warning that the carry trade is almost over. there are trillions to unwind.

Uncle Al's arteries are hardening.......... every industry of any size that was deregulated since 1970 is a disaster. Savings & Loans, Railroad, Steel, Telephone (long distance), Airlines, Trucking, Shipping........... Tomorrow I'm flying to Florida on a bankrupt airline and I made my...

doomsday hedge............. a large stockpile of food and ammunition............ either one is useless without the other

It sounded good when I said it fast. I don't have a trading platform to try it... but I'd like to see what happens over a dozen stocks or so.

Let's say you short a SSF and you go long an equity common that pays a sizable dividend. Since the short SSF is not assigned the dividend, is there an arb. play here. or am I the last guy to figure out that this won't work.

oh I remember well......... margin calls caused a lot of futures players to exit. not sure what will happen this time since the financial markets have derivatives heaped on top of derivatives. my guess is that the exchanges will simply refuse to open since counterparties will be insolvent.

terrytips??? I normally never read anything that has somebody smiling on the first page.... QQQ 100% on your money...what a load of bs.

I am aware that everything including breathing thru your mouth can affect gold prices. I'm really trying to hedge a .5 million dollar portfolio from a meltdown. I used to write equity options until the volatility collapsed. nowhere to hide anymore.

anyone have any additional experience with the e-mini's gold and silver? CBOT has a live book on their website during trading hours. looks kinda thin to me. being semi retired and basically lazy, I have some time to watch TV and thought about laying in wait for the next "geopolitical...

hhmmm.. Most of the most hideous spyware comes from java applets that drive live charts etc. Red Sherrif is the spyware that is most evil. ad-aware will remove it but itwill re surface each time you encounter a java chart laced with the hidden cookie. most of the spyware (trojans) I...

I just went long Aug Peanut butter and shorted Sep condom futures. and you thought everything has been arb'ed already.