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Too bad the teeming ignorant masses don't see this as the red herring that it is. The #1 culpable group is anti-free market politicians and their cronies.

snapshot march 6 2012

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thanks , good song

Down 50% shorting Emerging markets futures on european crisis. Too much manipulations by politicians. Firing of ecb president and replaced with draghi who would loan 1 trillion plus euros to banks and accept worthless greek debt as collateral. Troika ousting greek PM to be replaced by an...

With the overwhelming response to this thread I suspect Double XIV isn't gonna happen. thanks to all who read my poll.

Profit? I thought trading was a tax loss harvesting strategy or money laundering front. :)

I think most traders are gambling and fooling themselves that they are not. Fooled by: 1) randomness 2) Luck

Figures, right after I lost 1/3 million (40%) in the short squeeze. :eek: Sometimes having brass balls isn't an advantage. What gets me though is not my losses but my under-estimation of how far the powers that be, will go to manipulate the rules ex-post facto.

They are taxed, you just want to plunder what you consider a cash cow for those you consider "more deserving": How magnanimous of you.

Vote if you would like to see a double inverse short term VIX ETF or ETN. Essentially short TVIX or UVXY. I'm highly interested, tell me why you would or would not be: especially idiosyncrasies and caveats to said instruments. Primary advantages from my point of view: 1) Available...

yeah , you are right I've lost 40% or so shorting the emerging markets since christmas on the europe collapse. I had a pretty decent profit until all of the illicit political manipulations. In this environment it no longer makes sense to trade the fundamentals when politicians are changing...