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Ok that was me being uninformed, but I would be too afraid of the rules being changed down the road. For example, your Kindle may become non compatible at some point with a new format, you will be forced to get a new one (ok no big deal), access to the library may require subscription to some...

Amazon unfortunately has turned into an evil company. It was still a customer friendly outsider 10 years ago when I started using them, but now it 's evil. CS is awful. It tracks your habits and it tracks you on the web , it sends you spam. Bezos got greedy he wants to run everyone into the...

that was lame

If they acqured such a large following that each time they issue a report, there is a significant move in the stock, the SEC should establish rules in the way these reports/opinions are issued. When you see the move in NQ, I don't think that is acceptable if you want a market trusted by...

well if that's not illegal it should be. It's illegal for IB analysts to selectively disclose their upgrades/downgrades ahead of release to clients. MW would be doing the same thing.

no it would be an SEC violation I believe, it's not the 1920's anymore

I find this a bit controversial. If they got famous to the point of moving stocks like that, then they should not be releasing public research that way. Do it on pay subscriber basis, and if you want to "inform the public", go on CNBC and say you are short X and Y, without releasing a report...

wtf is up with Nasdaq ? Stock is halted since 2 pm yesterday. This is a complete joke! Are they waiting for the Chinese to come out and say something ? (looks like shareholders will need Confucius patience) Sorry that's terrible. I watched the halts yesterday and when it bottomed at 8.45 and...

I am surprised there is no thread about NQ Mobile. I was long the stock and it totally collapsed yesterday on the research report calling NQ a fraud. I figured there was something going on, so I got out with a rather small loss. But then I watched the plunge in amazement. If someone shorted...

I am tired of hearing of this bitcoin thing, basically all you guys into bitcoin are just going around spreading hype about bitcoin in hope of making money on your investment. Like those twin brothers. That's lame. Bitcoin looks like a Ponzi. Ask yourself who made $$ marketing bitcoin? You...

RE : volatility, one can argue that HFT reduces volatility in normal times but during periods of extreme market stress it may increase volatility. To use Taleb's language it's something that gives the appearance of orderly markets but in fact makes the system more fragile. But I am not sure of...

I am outside the US but face it, the US healthcare insurance industry and healthcare costs are a big scam, I saw firsthand when in the US how doctors were using Medicare patients as their cash cows. Costs have to be axed across the board and doctors must accept lower incomes. But there was also...

send traitor to Texas

The focus on "inflation" i.e. CPI, core CPI in fact is the mistake. Inflation IS the increase of the money in circulation , it causes asset inflation (such as house price inflation) which we are having now, just like in 2004-2007. It causes commodity prices to go up therefore causing food...

It's probably a growth issue. Clearly from a growth perspective, the social media/mobile app crap is more attractive. In the online trading world , growth is simply not very attractive. VC's want huge growth potential and also they are sheeps as many other investors, they follow trends. In...

This isn't a very realistic scenario. I believe they won't end QE, maybe they will taper a bit (what a joke this tapering is btw) markets will deteriorate before the real normalization of policy and they obviously will go on with QE . So QE can go on for ever ( a long time) but stocks can't go...

I hear you but it looks like the real economy has not yet crashed in China. Obviously shorting China was a 2007 bet, but the pain has been hidden bandaged over by the Chinese govt with huge stimulus and fake economic statistics. And maybe the skeletons are going to come back to haunt Western...

It's 2006 all over again. People can debate over whether there is a bubble in stocks but in 2007 valuations weren't stretched either. There is a bubble in the bond market , there was a bubble in precious metals and commodities and it's been pricked or deflated (commodities). Equities are...

lol yeah that's unbelievable, you were supposed to make guaranteed profits shorting it ! It was free money, they repeated on CNBC! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED ?

is this another scheme to prop up the market ? why going to 5 % ? That's ridiculous, the markets have become a farce. And it's all because of HF traders.