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$80 per share x 10 million shares = 800million dollars. A hedge fund worth 20billion, probably wouldn't put 4% of their assets into 1 stock. Also, the type of short term trading you're talking about would never fly with a hedge fund, unless they have ample liquidity. The type of liquidity you...

The cradle of Western Civilization, the beginning of all that's good in the world of man today. It was the first society in recorded history which gave freedom a chance, what's known today as free market capitalism (i'm stretching it a bit). And even then it was only for the free class of men...

Cant tell if serious

It depends. Yes, it can. Wealth is almost entirely dependent on efficiently allocating resources in the economy. As far as this zero sum game goes, in creating a more efficient economy, it does create wealth. It creates a more efficient economy by transferring risk to people more willing...

You don't have a proper understanding of money/debt/derivatives. Even under a true classical gold standard (take the one from end of the civil war until the FEDs creation in 1913), has a pyramid shape to it in the sense that $1 worth of real gold can support $9 or so of debt/money. It's the...

I'm sorry, but QE is a joke in my opinion. What the F am i missing here? Fed sets FED funds target at X% As demand for money fluctuates, they buy or sell bonds in order to keep their target at X% So, now comes Quantitative Easing, and the FED prints money to buy whatever assets...

Today's downday was incredibly significant. In my opinion it starts a new downleg of this bear market. We wont see the highs of today until the bear market is over. I was expecting this type of up day to start a bull market, but instead we got tepid up days sucking the bulls in and sucking...

logic man, you are completely off-base when comparing these two "different worlds" of TA/trading and standard of living. One is a zero sum game while the other is a positive sum game. You are assuming that the standard of living of more developed areas will come down? Why, because it has to...

Trading always has been and always will be a ZERO SUM GAME. That is, it always has been and always will be a dog eat dog world. I guess with stocks, it is a slightly positive sum game since stocks represent companies with earnings, but the smaller the time horizon the more it becomes a zero...

lol...you do understand that the pound USED to be the reserve currency of the world right? The dollar replaced it, over time so it wasn't at one point or another, but the very devaluation you're talking about could be thought of as the nail in the coffin for the pound being the reserve currency...

Dude, you are completely ridiculous. Futures is a ZERO SUM GAME, so when your 1000 "friends" were winning before, somebody was losing before. Now your 1000 friends are losing and the HFT, according to you, are winning. How does this change anything? Your friends are losers and so they are...

enlighten me please, how in the world do HFT traders cheat to make money? It's actually a serious question, i have no second thought about whether they should be allowed to trade or not. They should, as long as they follow the same rules as everyone else. And if they do follow the same...

You're more insane than i thought. Wishing death on someone you don't know is a sign of serious mental illness.

I love how proponents of socialism get their wish, get massive involvement from the government in health care, and when that massive involvement from government causes the best health care in the entire world to go to shit, they say this: " We wouldn't be in this spot if our capitalist way...

It's really not possible for such a strategy to be profitable for any long period of time. Markets are not perfectly efficient, but they are efficient over time. If such a simple strategy was profitable, it would only be such for a limited period before the options were repriced to correctly...

The supreme court is a worthless old relic, they would not dare go up against the presidency. I doubt anything they do amounts to anything at all. Perhaps if they were going up against a homeless guy they may make a stance, but against the almighty president? Would the "supreme court" of...

I have to give it to this guy at least he is posting an honest journal. My doubt though is if its real money or a Sim account? Its got to be impossible to sit through that type of drawdown.

I really don't think execution matters with brokers, unless you're moving some size and even then i think it more depends on you than the broker. When i put my buy order in on IB, it goes straight to the exchange, i can actually see my own bid in the market. It's not like a human being is...

You're actually right in the sense that both sides say "but that wasn't "true" communism/capitalism. And both are technically correct. You don't ever have a pure form. Where they differ is that history has shown that the closer a society is to capitalism, the richer more prosperous and...

Crony capitalism is just another form of socialism (the fascist or corporatist variety). Lenin just went straight to socialism. Even if you're right (i say you instead of lenin, cause i'm not sure that lenin said capitalism would move to crony capitalism) that capitalism always goes to crony...