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Here is a big FU to ICE. Now that the merger didnt go a lot of traders are still going to have to get there feed for one product.

low volume equals low volatility

A great example right of intermarket relationships is the yen. Markets know that the japanese have let the carry trade get out of control. Market players are borrowing yen to fund all sorts of stuff. If we wake up tomorrow and then yen rallies 200pips. Rest assured the stock markets is going...

Maverick, Interesting take on comp sci/ engineering grads as trading candidates. A good friend is a vp at patsystems and he says the samething about hiring people with regards to trading and comp sci. Its very hard to find people who understand both. The IT people who run my office are...

You need to be monitoring more than just stock index futures. Everything is correlated. Interest rates, currencies, etc

How can Ken Griffin get into politics when no one likes him?

Why work? Borrow, leverage and hope for asset inflation. Thats what this whole game is. Its going to work until it doesn't.

Europe is so weak its laughable. At some point the billion muslim fanatics are going to turn that place into there own "paradise". They have a young, growing, radical muslim population all over europe, but somehow they think if they just kiss there ass everything will be ok.

There is no doubt that the massive presence of foreign CB's in a variety of asset classes is distorting everything. No one ever mentions the fact that foreign holdings of treasuries and agencies is still on a accelerated pace. It hasn't slow down and has gotten even stronger in the last year...

Good point. I've seen locals in chicago go from many millions to no millions in 6 months

The CDO stuff is so complicated its mind boggling.

It amazing that LTCM was 3.6 billion. We have spent the last decade printing money like it is confetti. No wonder we havent had a recession.

The last surplus was during the tech bubble, this one during a housing bubble. It shouldnt last long.

The refusal of other countries to let there currencies appreciate is certainly part of the problem. At some point massive inflation is going to erupt in EM countries trying to peg to the dollar. Thats when things will get very messy. Remember when mexicans took to the streets over the...

Its not just the US. China's growing at 10 percent a year, but its interest rates really negative when pegged to the dollar. The whole world is stuck in this inflate or die scenario where no on can ever stop priniting because we have to keep monetizing old debt by adding new debt. I would...

Thats what happens when you live through a hyperinflation like now.

Bernard Lewis always mentions that Bin Laden considered the US as the weaker of the two super powers. The former Soviet Union being the other one. The soviets dealt with things very swiftly where as the US doesn't.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the CDO markets as the housing story continues to play out. It seems like there a ton of conflict of interests and the a lot of stuff is as buffet would say marked to myth.

Japan is really asking for it from the international community. The Kiwi's finally had to launch a currency attack and this is just going to make more government raids liekly