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i agree but... not many people here have a connection that allows 200Mbps (let alone 1Gbps) to start with. for solo traders 54Mbps with 90% minimum signal strenght is more than enough - your adsl provider will likely not support more than 16Mbps (in/out). speed difference is in double digit...

just try to think about this example: you swing over several days and your initial $10k position goes up by 20% the first day (quite usual these days in junior companies). you suddenly have 20% more risk - why would you keep it on? you sell $2k to keep your risk unchanged assuming other...

haha. another troll. you said 2 weeks ago that the bond is going down the next week - so you were wrong.

i always enjoy reading your posts. it often challenges my way too stubborn attitude. but i know that you do not believe what you say when you suggest that fed has irrelevant influence on cycles/bubbles. and the influence is very likely cyclical, i.e. negative - not counter-cyclical as was...

i see that the political nihilism is becoming a prevalent philosophical attitude these days. if i remember well that is the fourth out of five stages to recovery. looks like we could have a good 2009 after all. :D http://www.all-about-soul.com/grief-cycle.html

ok. at first i thought i will just ignore this off. but as i know you are not a complete dumbass...let's comment. A. let's not get into "who knows the history better" or "who makes more money in trading". I am glad you feel positive about yourself. to make you feel even better after several...

what a bunch of crap. are you talking about michael milken. ok - we have cycles - we know that. that is deeply philosophical. i am sorry to hear this...

once again - i agree with you. if we had 70% LTV we would be much better off today. but if we had high rates we would be much better off too because investors would not be pushed into low yielding exotic mbs/etc crap with 95% LTVs brokered to non-earners. consequently these loans would never...

personally i am interested in problems where finding a solution does not necessarily mean that it is directly applicable to a trading/investing world. that's likely why OP decided not to put this thread into "Trading" category. i am probably becoming too old...:p

wrong. low rates are the main reason we are where we are. you are right that "loose lending standards and poor oversight" played its role but that itself did not lead to overleverage and therefore it could have been treated on a micro level i.e. e.g. via bankruptcies and/or targeted government...

i did not say anything about usdgbp - at least nothing explicitly. i see 1.45-1.55 as a possible range and the range that may not be easy to trade for me... i focus a little bit on usdcad, usdjpy eurjpy, eurgbp and some EM exotics. but i do not consider myself as a forex trader. i am much...

pound is becoming cheap against eur imo but i would expect it to overshoot even more going forward - after all pound was overvalued for ages and it was not a big deal. on macroeconomic front it looks terrible but at the end of the day it seems that big portion of bad news is priced in. not all...

quod erat demonstrandum :confused: :confused: :confused: wow...wow... one of the truly golden posts on ET. do you have a beeping rotating stone instead of the brain? given your continuously profitable buys of GBP/EUR (against the trend) i guess we sould call you Mr. War. peace :D

:D ET is hyperinflation at its wildest.

good posts thriftybob but i guess you are talking to a wall - most people here don't know what "cash costs" mean to start with...

for a long time i was talking about necessary decline of america's might (including decline of usd) but this article is pushing it a bit too far imo. mikuni is quite respectable rating agency - this must be some kind of a christmas joke...

exactly. you certainly know how to be diplomatic...:)

i thought you were still short from 0.79 level you shithead. of course if you short on this thread every day one day you will be right (maybe) - but what's the point.

we clearly have very different opinions. commodity bubble was fueled by fed's easy money policy. everybody was escaping to commodities to hedge against the perceived risk of inflation it brings (especially in the first half of 2008). ultimately it only made the fall from highs harder than it...

there were justifiable inflation fears till july - just recall commodities' prices. it is easy with 20-20 hindsight to say he should have expected the worst credit crunch in 100 years - get back to reality. by the way he is turning hawkish again - so you know what happens unless there are...