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    Rollover dates of bond futures

    I did manage money, but got out due to the ridiculous amount of regulation. If I make enough trading my own and some family money, why should I add all that work just to make some more. I'm not that greedy. I have backtested my system. My current system is weekly. I've also tested it as a...
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    who is trying to squeeze bonds?

    And look at the volume on the ZN future today. I haven't been watching bond futures for long, but that's the highest volume I've ever seen.
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    Looting in New Orleans..a new low for americans...and why we are minimizing the effec

    CNN: New Orleans hospital halts patient evacuations after coming under sniper fire, a doctor who witnessed the incident says.
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    Street Insights Jaye Shartis Paraphrasing"FED was the One who JUMPED the Markets"

    All the Fed has to do is flood the market with money. They do this with repurchase agreements. http://www.answers.com/repurchase+agreement According to this theory, that's why stocks have risen. And it's why bonds have risen even more than stocks.
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    2005 ... The year of the Black Christmas ?

    That's why I am an anarcho-capitalist (libertarian). However, your list is a bit faulty. The question with abortion is not about whether people have common sense. One side believes abortion is murder and the other does not. We all agree that murder is wrong. It's not the same issue as...
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    What Series 65 prep materials to use?

    I got the Dearborn Passtrak study guide. Didn't really need to study much though....
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    Does anyone else think this is a suckers rally?

    Could be. After the initial drop following 9/11, the markets started to rise. Could be the same thing here.
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    Does anyone else think this is a suckers rally?

    And the market didn't hit bottom until more than a year later. Good analogy.
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    IB DDE basic question

    I believe you first have to load the "Ctrl" column. It would look something like =mydem123|acct!id2?acctv?U??????
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    Does anyone else think this is a suckers rally?

    Biggest sucker rally since 1907! lol
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    Houston-based gas hub, wholesale spike to $3.15/gallon.

    I hear scooters get about 50mpg.
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    Nothing will bring this market down..................................................

    All of SF was destroyed in 1906. Not by the earthquake, but by the subsequent fire. While SF then was smaller than NO now, it was more important as a percentage of the economy.
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    Nothing will bring this market down..................................................

    This is not worse than the 1906 earthquake, mostly since people were warned and most got out. The result was the panic of 1907.
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    Katrina a 5, Oil at?

    "The one prevailing evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections." Lord Acton
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    Looting in New Orleans..a new low for americans...and why we are minimizing the effec

    Bush was in El Mirage, Arizona. Now, if you know anything, nobody comes to the Phoenix area in the summer for vacation.
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    It this market being proped up?

    Didn't Frederic Bastiat write about this "broken window fallacy" 150 years ago? People still don't get it.
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    Bears had their chance

    I'm a bear and I'm not disappointed at all. Well, I wish we dropped more, but we'll do it eventually. If not today, then tomorrow. We are already down in after-hours.
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    Bears had their chance

    So you think Apple will outperform the market? So buy Apple and short the market. If you want to develop a market-neutral trading system, do it. Don't look for stock tips on ET. With regard to stock tips: "It is not so much greed made blind by eagerness as it is hope bandaged by the...
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    Bears had their chance

    Only trade the S&P 500. Why take chances if you are bearish? Just short everything!
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