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Not saying today, but in future, be careful, though. Remember mid-Nov 1929 - April 1930 was one monster of a rally and I'm sure had everyone calling that it was an end to the bear. Best to stay nimble at this point, just make sure you react at longer-time frame pivots before you get run over...

Not exactly, though. Most traders are limited by the capital loss limit on how much loss they can claim. I have to imagine a big percentage of the losers in this trading game are big losers, which means that loss is going to take a *long* time to show up. The transaction tax will be immediate...

This is very interesting for sure. Kind of fills in a piece of the puzzle for me. Germany got away with printing money post-WWI for a while because people were saving and there were rations and such, the inflation hit when people started spending again. The model didn't quite fit with the...

Are you making money with your extra trades? If so, I don't really see why you need a goal. A goal is something to have to fix a problem, either you're not making enough to satisfy yourself or you're trying to bet too big and need to be satisfied with a smaller amount. If something isn't...

I used a goal for a while because it helped me to regain self-control from a problem of letting losses run. That's what the goal was for me, a trick to help me with my own psychology. I wasn't batting for the fences (and subsequently not being able to admit defeat) when I wasn't ready for that...

This is a tax by another name. Let the Social Security administration run it and invest in bonds? In other words, let us continue our reckless spending and use this new money to do it. And, I'm so sure when we get ready to retire both the Social Security system and this system will both be...

Just got the same message, but from the quotes going across, it appears someone is trading it... I haven't tried to place an order, though.

Does anyone have more info on what is being done with this 80-billion they are going to use? Is it to weaken the yen or what? From this article: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jcMJeTM-PqBMJvvuYPQ-dipFviwQ Before the meeting began, China, South Korea, Japan and 10 Southeast Asian...

Fight the Future, it's this part that you said that I think would do the most good if you started sending letters, commenting on articles, commenting on blogs, sending as potential stories to reporters, etc (generally making as much noise as possible): In a falling market like this one with a...

With the coming need for more taxes and the growing hate toward speculators (there will be more dropping of the stock market - we all know this I think from the fundamental outlook - so that hate is going to grow), I think it's coming. The question is how much it will be taxed, that white paper...

That wasn't nearly as exciting as I thought it would be LOL Someone made good money on SPY and DIA.

When does the limit down end? Between 8-8:30 Chicago time right, but exactly when?

So, these are the correct cash prices for the treasuries? http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/ Is there always such a discrepancy between the cash price and the price of the nearest timeframe future contract price? (referring to the 30-year)

Does anyone have a list of all of the members of the CME clearing house? Don't do a big search or anything, I'll try to search some later if no one replies, no time right now. Any idea who has reasonable commissions that isn't a member?

The total off the wall conspiracy theorist in me sometimes wonders if the government knows the future through remote viewing and they needed the bubble to develop the internet and collect the knowledge we will need to rebuild. You know, Isaac Asimov type stuff :D

Isn't the net result of hyperinflation or default of the government the same bond wise, they crash? It just determines how fast and deep the crash is? Really asking here, but that's the conclusion I keep coming to.

Are all firms that offer products at the CME potentially affected by this, or just the ones that are their own clearing house? How in the world do you set margin for CDSs? Aren't they kind of all or nothing?

I'm a little surprised to see you in this discussion :) Come around to the eventual hyperinflation point of view now? If so, that's good, I'm in good company.

I'm shorting the 30-year treasury bond, but if the market has another big fall, there's a chance it'll spike again (good shorting opportunity!) so don't leverage so much you can't handle swings in it. You could invest in other currencies, but you've got to be aware that they're going to be...

Hasn't Obama as much as said he'll save American automakers and help them to build the cars that are the future?