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Problem is that everyone is seeing the same thing you are. People are not dumb. They know that this is a seasonally strong period and buy ahead of Xmas to sell after Xmas. The effect of seasonality gets pushed forward because everyone is aware of it and tries to front run the rally. We've...

Today is a crap shoot and will be totally manipulated due to triple witching effects. Your guess is as good as mine. But current prices are gonna seem high come next week. They are pumping them up today to suck in retail money.

Those sucked in today will be weeping during the holidays wondering why they bought at such pumped up prices. Definitely a sucker's rally here waiting to sucker punch eager bulls while they are eating egg nog.

That can only mean one thing: Goldman is looking to sell spewing out those price targets.

This coordinated effort doesn't help stocks, it only serves as PR to show that the Fed is on the case when in fact their only tool is to cut interest rates down to 1% and that will bring along massive long term repercussions and inflation. People are quite sanguine right now, thinking this...

The Fed is in a box, inflation is clearly high despite the cooked CPI stats, the economy is noticeably getting weaker, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Cutting by 50 bps in one meeting is really only necessary in a full blown recession, not when the economy is still growing with...

Equities feed off of low interest rates, not Fed funding for banks. This is a band aid measure by the meddlesome Fed to try and put a stop to the credit crunch. People are having problems because of credit risk, it is not a funding issue. Markets are overexuberant right now, but these...

Those numbers were from last month! Is that so far from what is going on right now? Did things get suddenly worse in December compared to November? I would argue the opposite.

The only way to clear out the excesses of the debt bubble over the past few years is to cut off the spigot and reduce the debt load. It is going to be painful, but there will be no Great Depression because of it. You get rid of a few crappy banks, lenders, and hedge funds, and you start with a...

The Fed is not there to save your irresponsible a$$ by pandering to the market and giving them a bunch of rate cuts when the economy is not even in a recession and unemployment at 4.7%. The dollar is weak enough as it is, an acceleration of the printing presses spells disaster down the road...

You don't throw more debt on top of the mountains of debt out there. You need a cleansing of the financial system, put some crappy banks out of business, get a bunch of hedge funds eliminated, and reduce the junk CDOs and other assorted garbage that has accumulated over the years. The...

It seems like over 98% of trades posted are either winners or at the very least, break even here. You guys must be the best traders on the planet trading the most liquid futures market at such a huge win rate! Like Ripley's Believe or Not.

Futures are much harder to figure out than stocks. Stocks are easily gamed because the number of players is much smaller, you have institutions and all the big boys playing futures, not as easy to game. However, futures is probably the better tool for the elite trader, haha. But I doubt...

The Fed was going to cut 50 bp anyway, the data didn't matter. Its not about the economy, its about the banks.

Why is there all this lowballing by talking heads trying to talk down expectations when Ben loves the 50 bp bullet aimed straight at the temples of the shorts. It has been completely telegraphed. Punish the savers, reward the bankers, who are Ben's buddies.

Etrade is a horrible long. The deal last week was a total shaft for shareholders drowning them in tons of high interest debt which only helps the bondholders and screws over the common stock bagholders. If you look at the amount of interest Etrade has to pay over the next 10 years on the deal...

I know what everyone is thinking and I have been a skeptic of the Chinese stocks for quite some time but there is going to be a continued rotation out of developed world stocks and into developing world stocks, in particular China. I don't see this force being stopped anytime soon, and it is...

Hank is Hank Paulson, Treasury secretary, the guy who wants to bail out the dumb who went with ARMs and are now going to have to pay real interest rates instead of the teaser rates.

The turds have been finished for quite a while so never even bothered to continue with these daily updates, but the turds on average are down 36%! That's after the past week's huge rally in the market. Who said never short a bubble? There are no maxims in trading, rationality wins out in the...

Can the markets be any more greased than they were this Friday by Ben and Hank? You have Ben showing he hasn't met a printing press he didn't like, and Hank putting out statements that's he gonna be the backstop for a bunch of idiot homeowners who bought when they should have rented. The...