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Used to read Levinas. Otherwise than being - or beyond essence was probably his best book. Funny how guys like Lacan and Derrida get a free ride, I assume its your legal / ethical framework that familiarizes you with Levinas. But you have to read Jabes, Blanchot, and a bunch of literary types in...

Western philosophy is retarded / fixated on the concept of "other". So its what philosophers have obsessed over the last 60 or so years.

Talk about living on borrowed time. The banks that is... If they foreclose they lose all Political Will for Bailout 2.0

Also, this article is very interesting: http://www.safehaven.com/article/15755/there-is-no-business-like-bond-business

I recommend reading the article in the link below: http://www.derivativesstrategy.com/magazine/archive/1995-1996/1195qa.asp Remember that Stan Jonas has cult status on Wall Street for his acumen as a trader of derivatives. Nassim Taleb calls him a genius , etc... He wrote this all in 1995...

I guess all the bankers are going to quit and start tech Companies.

Amibroker takes csv files and other formats.... inputs into a db... not sure its what you want though.

Literally - A penny for your thoughts.

You didn't mention anywhere about risk management. How much is risked in your most speculative trade? (Something where the event, and the risk reward are highly geared in your favor) You're bread and butter trade (repeatable, consistent returns that you could live on or at least...

If a tree falls... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQCKdgLzjM

Didn't you know? - Gold is <Silly Puttty</B> It fixes all Central Bank's mistakes.

The post-keynesian, economist Steve Keen of Australia's area of research is specifically these type of situations. http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/ Watch - Keen Talk: Why Credit Money Crashes

Actually, I created systems in amibroker based solely on some very basic buy and sell signal, and entirely predicated on the <b>position size</b>. Some of these systems on the S&P 500 stocks made 30% a year for 10 years. The frustrating thing was that when tested on a portfolio of Canadian...

Whats with their haircuts? FUBAR meets Wall Street meet Miami Vice

It's hard to read a map when its painted all the same color. Just the same, Stimulating an economy would be extremely difficult if a single currency were to exist during a single or series of Macro events which had negative consequences.

If anyone remembers how the fed acts, did they issue a bailout pre-Lehman or pre-Bear? Of course not. shit hits the fan, then they ease. Why anyone can't follow the order of things is beyond me, because the Market is doing precisely that- ignoring the fact that the fed waits until late in the...

The next nobel will be titled "The socionomic benefits of Quantitative Easing for liberal politics- if first you don't succeed, try try again"

Read between the lines. "QE 1 was totally useless", so lets parade around and pretend we need to pass the buck with a currency crisis to cover over our F%$k ups.

You may not move the Market as an individual. But take your system and have a big fund trade it, or have a bunch of people trading the same signal, you'll get slippage thats not directly related to you.

How come you never hear anything about traders who blew up during the flash crash? It seems relevant to a discussion about successful / unsuccessful flash crashers (I mean HFTers) instead of paying homage to a guy with 10 million who somehow trades a large chunk of the SPY....