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    Algorithmic Trading

    apart from watching myself get pennied automatically, I can only contribute my story about "snakes." a fellow once told me that apps that look for mispriced orders float around and quickly execute against them. Seems kinda cool.
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    housing crash

    recent articles in the wall street journal and elsewhere indicate that the housing market is being "talked down." this suggests that whatever is going to discount it, will (or will continue to). bonds, subprimes, primes, builders, lumber futures, crude and unleaded (as demand recedes) etc...
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    The Anti-Capitalistic Inquisition

    markets or black markets ... they're still markets.
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    PIMCO/Bill Gross being investigated for Gunning shorts on the 10 yr

    deep pocket picking opportunistic ambulance chasing media wave riding lawyers are scum alert.
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    Biotech investing mag's take on Buffett

    goes lower first (maybe).
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    Buffett's Current Holdings

    yeah but that was one very, umm, curious deal. the equity in kmart was tweaked somehow, stripped of the liabilities and reissued or something. I didn't follow it too closely but it wasn't the old Kmart (at 11 cents) that wound up going to 20 bucks or whatever.
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    Gold

    i think 455 is the number, right?
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    Money Management

    we covered this already but the book that kicked off the new era is "Portfolio Management Formulas" by Ralph Vince. It's a must read.
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    GOOG Ready to Retrace ?

    a boatload of insider selling should help.
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    Question for NYMEX, NYBOT floor traders....

    uh-hunh. isn't recess over yet?
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    amazed at migration fron naz to nyse for traders

    they all suck. just trade.
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    Finding programmers for Grey or Black Boxes

    like going to a donut shop and asking if there's a cop in the house.
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    Venezuela threatens anew to turn off oil spigot to US

    let's see....1 1/2 million barrels per day, times 66 + dollars, equals...hmmm, I freaking doubt it. we'd have to foreclose on them.
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    Question for NYMEX, NYBOT floor traders....

    no comprende, hombre. brokers trade for themselves all the time, at least on the 7th floor.
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    The Anti-Capitalistic Inquisition

    Did you read of the study that was done a number of years after the witch hunt and billion-dollar grab that ruined Mr. Milken's career and Drexel Burnham Lambert that concluded that the net dollar amount of damage done by the technical violations of which he was convicted amounted to something...
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    The Anti-Capitalistic Inquisition

    no mention of Michael Milken? And how he gave up a billion dollars (the first man to earn that much in a single year) to prevent his brother Lowell from being made the fall guy for some minor techinical violations?
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    Traders having ADD?

    you and einstein. :p
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    Question for NYMEX, NYBOT floor traders....

    look at the price of NYBOT seats. we've recently had an influx of disgruntled NYSE members. IF that isn't a sweet form of irony with much promise for more, I don't know what is. last year the AMEX crowd came over en masse.
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    Traders having ADD?

    i think it's more like people with add are prone to be traders. see, there's a place for everyone.
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