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    TradingBillion's Successful Futures Trading Adventures

    Congratulation and good luck TradingBillions. To accept a mentor and began a journal as his student all in the course of two hours is an amazing leap of faith on your part. This guy could be some nut living in the middle of the dessert for all you know. You must feel you are in real good...
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    How market makers work in Futures

    When buying the cash it would be either the spx or a basket of stocks that most closely mirrors your index, it is unpracticle to buy the entire 500 in proper weight. Programs can track and adjust the cash (stocks) to buy or sell to fully take advantage of the discrepency between fair value and...
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    How market makers work in Futures

    I think the term market maker gets thrown around loosely. By definition a "market maker" as the nasdaq was structured or a specialist on the nyse had a requirement to provide liquidity against customers orders. In futures, participants (locals or commercials) in the pits had no requirement to...
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    I Am In 25% Cash! All Accounts*

    As an employer I can tell you that 10% of the population is unfit to work. That means at least 1.5% of those actually have a job.
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    "Sell in May's" track record

    This is utterly simplistic, what about taxes, and what is the comparable to monthly dollar cost averaging? Is this a trading or an investing strategy?
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    BOOM Goes The Account?

    Never hold this as a trade into earnings, very volitile metals prices, revenue booking etc. This is a long term accumulation in the 20's. I traded this into earnings all last year, only held once with the same result. Nice backlog, costs are up, margins will be squeezed, this is a long...
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    Top is in!!!! 4/25 or 4/26

    Put on your "valuation indicator" glasses, both dow and sp are around 18 pe and trading near 7 year highs, compared to nearly 30 pe seven years ago. Where is the froth? I still see growth and value...
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    1930's Here We Come? Thought Provoking Article

    Pack your bag and your riffle and head for the hills... I know some y2k idiots with some minuteman silos for sale now..
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    Target sees 'much weaker' April sales

    April will be bad... But based on the last week in my business and everone I talked to huge pent up demand. The consumer broke loose this last week, best April week in 3 years for me and still going strong today. So says me, my suppliers, the moron at the liquour store and the hot chick at...
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    Goldman creates $20B private equity fund

    The low hanging fruit is looong gone, like the apple in the garden of eden. Sin will follow..... Dress it up and sell it off now that your analysts can't recommend while you are dumping it.
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    The next correction will be...

    And the cpi report on May 17, nearly 10% correction. Long and short of it, get out under 12666 on the ym. http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/17/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm
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    The next correction will be...

    Nearly one year after the last "top" everyone is a wizard. The last straw a year ago.... Along with popping metals and energy. http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BCDB00065-90D3-4AB5-850E-F01FCA278D5D%7D&siteId=mktw
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    ES "1" point System

    If you open up a can of worms be ready to eat it. From the p/l thread you are doing more than your share of ingestion. Congrats....
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    Liquidity Bubble

    Falling dollar makes for cheaper us assets in a world awash in liquidity not allocated to one contry or sector. Oil money, India money, China money, US real estate money, mineral money, just an accelerated equilibrium coming barring any major geopolitical crisis... Remember Pebble Beach...
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    I am declaring the next stop is $70 per barrel!!!

    Problem is wtc is bottle necked. Refineries will be the tail that wags the crude dog.
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    i am dying to get in the pits

    Depends if ag is in vougue like it is now. Lot's of speculative ag funds are popping up now. If not cut your teeth at a merchendiser then go on your own or at least you will have a bit of a network. Many smaller private merchandisers are also speculative players, know a couple traders who...
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    Help! Is anyone having trouble accessing OpenECry?

    Just got connected. Was unable all day Saturday.
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    Bartiromo's new home

    She had an account where I used to work, whenever she called in she was a bitch, this was in 99. "I am Maria Bartiroma, that's spelled B-A-R-T-I-R-O-M-A!"
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    Bartiromo's new home

    Remeber when she used to work the preopen on the floor and willingly be brushed and fondled several years ago?
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    Pimco Idiot...

    Anyone with his grooming obviously doesn't care what anyone thinks about him Bill!!!! Hope you have a hot wife at least...
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