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Without a central bank, interest rates would be much lower. Of course, it would be much harder to borrow large sums of money. But really the only thing that would be affected would be companies seeking venture capital. The average person would have less debt. That 5.25% is going right into...

But if Moody's & S&P don't downgrade any of the CDO debt, shouldn't that lessen the blow for a while? There won't be a run on the bank(?) :eek: Long term things don't look good though.

I had a big problem with SPX index today using IQfeed with Quotetracker. After the fed announcement the index stopped updating. I had to keep backfilling it all the way to the close! I don't think it was Quotetracker either, because ES and everything else kept updating. Very disappointing!

That's funny, your first post says you made $75 dollars in one day trading cow dung. This sounds like a Nigerian scam.

Well, he started with 5K or so. If he had been trading 1 lot, he'd still have 4K not 500.

Dude next support on cash is 1470. Good luck!

Why are you trading 3 lots? 1 lot until you are consistant!

There were way too many shares for sale, and whenever the insiders are openly dumping, these things never pan out.

You posted at 11:20, the ES had only traded a few points either way. You should only be trading 1 contract until you are consistant. Were you trading 5+ contracts? Start small.

I think it depends on where you are. Some people swear by DSL. As I stated my DSL was horrible. I use Cable, and for $40 a month I get a connection that has been down 10 minutes in the last year, with a 40 ms ping to my broker, with 8 mb down and 2 mb up. That is better than a T1 which goes...

I used to use Verizon DSL, and the service just disconnects itself several times a day (wired line). I don't know how FIOS is, but I would avoid Verizon.

Well, I'm no expert, but I've been trading the indexes for 6 months now. While there are no MM's in futures, there are "commercial" (professional) players involved who function in the same capacity. They create the open interest, and apparently run stops (well, somebody is doing it!). So...

Coolweb, is that you??:D :D :D

Well, they are doing a bad job of redeeming themselves.

It's funny they would hire Amaranth flunkies and expect a different outcome. I bet they hired the Amaranth guys, and took the opposite side of the trades. GS makes more money than Bernanke with a printing press. Something doesn't smell right.

Well, daytraders are giving up in droves. Even Joe Six-Pack knows you are trading against bots most of the time. Even swing trading is tough now. It's just hedgie vs. hedgie. I think between the 2000 market meltdown and the real estate collapse, the retail investor is tapped out. Most...

The problem is, there is very little retail money in the market. In the past, the %short would indicate what the "pros" were doing. But the pros now are getting squeezed.

Care to offer any insight as to why the switch to equities. Many here have moved away from equities to futures.

Thanks everyone, I've got TT support investigating it for me now. They are 24 hours, even though my broker isn't.

I'm trading emini's with X-Trader. Almost every day, at least once a day, I get disconnected for about a minute. Usually, the MD window turns grey. Is this normal, or should I switch brokers? Thanks.