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Another "miracle" close for WHI.

For granted that can happen--but after seeing what happened with WHI, I also believe there are "other things" that happen as well.

Even a better example: See what happened with WHI yesterday. The stock was trading at $1.13 and $1.14 for a long time, andfinally broke thru to $1.14 & 1.15 by the close. But "somehow" the stock closed at $1.22--I can't even see a corresponding trade on the chart!! Of course, after hours...

You are probably right in the current situation, and that is what the others say as well, i.e. the Fed pumping in money. Overall, as to whether or not big players can put a floor in the market if they wanted: are you saying your view is they can't even if they wanted to? Or they wouldn't...

What you say is along the lines of my own thinking. Similarly, when on the Yahoo message board everyone was prophesizing that HRB would certainly tank, for being one of the only financials with subprime exposure that hadn't yet tanked--in spite of their tremendous exposure--and they were buying...

Are stocks artificially being sustained by market makers, hedge funds, etc. who are looking to unload their stuff at high prices? Or do current prices properly reflect the level of severity of the situation in America?

I offer this plan to both the Republican & Democratic candidates.

America knows that the more money they print the more the world shares the burden (IMO, anyway the world morally owes this to America for having helped them in many ways, starting from WW2 & onwards.)

BTW, I think America should offer instant citizenship to foreignors who a) buy a home in America, or b) invests in American economy, or c) have a spending budget of $5k per month.

Thank you both for your input about currency ETF's & options.

Here's the list I found of ETF's: http://etf.stock-encyclopedia.com/category/currency-etfs.html What currency pairs would you recommend instead?

What in the world will people do with money getting almost no return in savings accounts, almost no return for CD's, etc.? ...especially noting inflation eating away their dollars. Did you all take this into considceration? Seemingly, not everyone will invest in commodities & foreign...

Hello my fellow ET members, What currency ETF would you recoomend most for protection versus dollar decline (& profitability). Why?

Currently, I withdraw any support I may have suggested for TD Ameritrade, as I now suspect the following: A) A lot of the price improvement offers is only for 1/100 of a penny or less--just enough to give them credit for "offering price improvement" but nothing more than that. (I was trading...

A) Is it legal for a broker to monitor that their customer is about to place a large size order (i.e. it was to sell 4k shares at a 500 share bid), and to quickly sell the 500 shares themselves instead of the customer? B) Possiblity 2: the bid of 500 shares was on ARCA, the broker sent his...

BigEgoDude, My point has to do with those big lot trades which often occur at the close, which anyway seem a bit fishy, seems even more fishy if they are able to ignore the other bids. (Note: More precisely the specialist is the market maker.)

The majority of IB's profits comes from market making, and they are VERY profitable. Is that because IB has lots of clients? Lots of dumb clients? Because they trade only at the ideal moments? Or for some other reason?

With America constantly printing money: A) stock prices should soon recovery strongly because companies will get more dollars for the same goods (with inflation), B) many American goods & services will become cheaper (i.e. those that don't parallel the inflation rate), C) consumers will want to...

I agree if you want to average into a position, but what if you want to place the trade all at once? I also agree that flipping from screen to screen to send & monitor an order is a disadvantage. I have several different brokers, including TD Ameritrade, and use them for their advantages. To...

To cmdtytrdr: thank you for this input. To Robbie: don't you think that's like trying to catch a falling knife? Shorts are aware that bargain hunters are some of the biggest candidates for buying so they take advantage of that as well. What do you think would be an example of a stock that...