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    Interactive Brokers stock on new high list

    Price might show a cup and handle formation. http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=ibkr&sid=0&o_symb=ibkr&freq=2&time=20&x=24&y=19 Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:IBKR) http://finance.google.com/finance?q=ibkr reports revenue and net income...
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    UBS loses $ 18 B subprime mortgage

    http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSL3039464720080130 Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:36am EST By Mike Peacock LONDON (Reuters) - Fresh writeoffs at big European and Japanese banks on Wednesday threw the investor spotlight firmly back onto the credit crunch after days gazing at Societe...
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    How do you reward yourself for good trades?

    I consider stopping a loss to be a good trade and my reward is losing money.
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    Trendiness measurement

    1) Define trend. 2) Define trendiness. 3) Define good answere.
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    Rogue trader to cost SocGen $7bn

    Is Jerome Kerviel becoming a celebrity? http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3257468.ece "Kerviel may have lost his original Facebook friends but he has acquired a peculiar following on the internet. By yesterday afternoon there were 20...
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    Rogue trader to cost SocGen $7bn

    I am reading that Mustier is considered the man most likely to succeed Societe Generale CEO Bouton. I suspect management encouraged aggressive trading. http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSL2718842620080127?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0 "Mustier runs SocGen's investment...
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    Rogue trader to cost SocGen $7bn

    I believe Societe Generale management is just all around careless and sloppy. They also lost billions in the subprime mortgage crisis. I wonder if there are other rogue traders at Societe Generale hiding big losses...
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    Rogue trader had been dealing with more than $73.3 billion

    I believe Societe Generale management was careless.
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    I am the dumb money...

    Think about how you felt just before the reversal. Sometimes my feelings of doom identify stock market bottoms. It's an indicator.
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    Why base metals and other commodities don't crash...

    My lumber chart shows fast price value decreases about years 1979 to 1984, 1994 and 2000.
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    I never saw volatility like this

    Reminds me of the 1987 stock market crash. Lots of volatity for days following 19 October 1987.
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    SocGen trader loses $4.9bil in vanilla stock futures

    I recall thinking yesterday that some big hedge fund might go bust and require government intervention. The sub prime mortgage crisis story is months old and I do not expect it to motivate selling now. There might be another piece of nonpublic bad news and maybe this is it. Also possible is that...
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    Crisis....???

    Sometimes I find it convenient to think of the behavior of prices in terms of market dynamics. When the sellers are finished selling the psychology is still negative. I might expect prices to change to lesser values. If the sellers are already sold out then transaction volume at lesser prices is...
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    Google providing historical data

    Google is providing historical price data. I do not recall seeing this earlier. http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=NYSE:WMT
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    Longs are you ready?

    No risk management.
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    Asia trading.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/japan.html Japanese and Australian Government notes and bonds rallying as of 19:23 8:23 PM EST USA. Consistent with both flight to quality and central bank intervention.
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    Asia trading.

    Yahoo Asian stock markets http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=asia Tokio Japan commodity exchange http://www.tocom.or.jp/souba/gold/index.html Shanghai China Futures Exchange http://www.shfe.com.cn/estatements/secondpage.jsp?subjectpid=905&subjectid=9051&startpage=1 Gold futures...
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    Asia trading.

    Might be a flight to quality. I don't know. Can't trust the news now. The behavior of prices tells us what is happening right now.
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    Asia trading.

    6:20 PM EST Australia stock market is down 3.12 %. Possibly central bankers all around the world are going to lower interest rates. Might be a good idea to monitor currency exchange rates and bond futures. Right now US dollar exchange rate appears to be strenghening against Euro, Canadian...
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