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    Trading Technologies awarded patent for DOM

    tt must have some pretty good lawyers and the good fortune of some pretty credulous judges. hard to believe that everyone has stolen their algorithms. at this rate, TT will own the entire world by this time next year.
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    What would happen to oil if the Sauds admit to having peaked out oil production?

    well, yeah, and they'd start making a crapload more money. pretty clever of them to keep it hush-hush, I think.
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    Fooled by Randomness

    sigh... about as productive as contemplating one's navel.
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    China revaluation imminent?

    do you trade w/these people?
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    A Wall Street Affair: This Bachelor Party

    it would take a daytrader to envy that.
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    A Wall Street Affair: This Bachelor Party

    yes, totally. i want to snort coke and screw women that cost a thousand dollars an hour. i want to ride in a jet with a bunch of white trash that thinks it owns the world and the markets, too. I want to!
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    A Wall Street Affair: This Bachelor Party

    "arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned" alert. do they wonder why the Street is increasing lined with condos?
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    Ebbers 30 years

    ebbers will appeal and be let out after a reasonable amount of time.
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    Trading bubble

    Got a laugh out of that, Hydro. Tradesports, anyone? *** just more observations...I remember Tom Vu real estate courses (rocation, rocation, rocation)... and the penny stock craze...and IPO whores, and Black Monday (October 19, 1987), and the S&L meltdown, and real estate busts in Mass...
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    Pure agent against market maker

    good luck, Mr. Steve! I found this interesting, actually. I've always figured all the forex shops were bucket shops, but you're saying that at IB you can go straight into the interbank mkt, is that right? Perhaps you can clear this up for me.
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    China revaluation imminent?

    the retailer gross proportions are nowhere near that high, I think, but good point.
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    Oil bubble

    some-body reads the New York Times and believes it.
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    Ebbers 30 years

    the discussion wasn't about "doing the right thing," it was about all the malevolent downside caused by this evil greedy American white boy from the bible belt and why he should "rot in prison." any discussion about the downside is incomplete without a fair evaluation of the upside -- and...
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    Trading bubble

    some observations...I was working out the other day (in the financial district), and a young guy starts talking about what he does...he mentions a firm that is clearly retail oriented and probably clears Bear Stearns or something... Me: "what do you do there?" Him: "trade." Me (genuinely...
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    Ebbers 30 years

    really. what about all the people he employed during this time? what about all the companies (there were over 80) whose owners and employees benefited from purchase by Worldcom? What about the increased net worth of all shareholders who then used the assets he created to acquire other assets...
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    China revaluation imminent?

    can hardly think china would want to kill the goose that's laying golden eggs all over their economy...
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    Is Goldman Sachs a prop shop?

    yeah. i would assume that there they are on the same side of the table with their traders regarding transaction costs.
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    Ebbers 30 years

    the penal system is not supposed to be institutionalized slavery.
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    how low can PCs go?

    the could give 'em to you when you sign an isp contract...in fact, for a while, they did.
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    Vix near 10 year low of 10.36

    try going back about 15 - 20 years, to the last major market tops and bottoms, homes.
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