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I traded with them about a year ago .... Cy sends you a K-1, so it is an easy single entry on your taxes. There is a yearly tax prep fee.

Good analysis, what (according to Denninger) happens at the "too late" point?

When hunting for correlations, can you find better/stronger correlations by measuring the day session, or by including gaps? In other words ... correlate HLC off the open value or HLC off the previous close? I know I should do my own homework on this, but any thoughts?

The title of the web page is "HLV Branches" :) copy-n-paste job

Based on a basket of commodities http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185549&perpage=6&pagenumber=4

Yeah I have been hearing from several friends and family wanting to get on the gold train. The last time I heard from them was about silver when it cracked $20 in 2008. I say that gold may do well in 2010, but don't expect it to be any less volatile (percentage wise) then the stock market...

knightrader +1 Most people don't get this. They cannot handle uncertainty, so they delude themself one way or the other.

If all major currencies collapse .... I don't think you could fool enough people to trust a global currency. Nobody who had any money and saw their life savings evaporate would buy into it.

MohdSalleh why do you think the market will be dead like this for years to come?

2009 was rough, although $-wise not too bad since I have a lot more capital after 2008. So far 2010 had a terrible 2 days, it is so dead out there. MohdSalleh why do you think this is going to last for years?

Daddy Nasdaq saved my butt today :)

Having always had poor health, I have been to a lot of doctors. They are not evil .... most are kind and caring, and even competent in the current state of medical knowledge. But they lack the tools to make people healthy. If you have any chronic illness you're gonna stay sick and accumulate...

No ... the whole point of trader status is to not pay SE (and so you can deduct expenses)

Trader status is fine, but if you also elect mark-to-market, you lose the 60/40 rate. No worries though, because you can elect mark-to-market for securities only and not commodities http://www.traderstatus.com/mark2mkt.htm

What??? Alex is great, always available and if needed will direct you to the right people.

You compare 1 year budget deficit to total deficit. clueless ....

Yeah ..... good idea from the OP, but you would have to make stock valuations a little more honest. If you buy a share of the company, you are buying into the upside, but you should also be liable for a share of the company debt. When a company goes bankrupt, shareholders lose the investment +...

DOW: 8500-9500 Dollar index: 85+ Gold: 750-850 Oil: 70-80 Favourite large cap: AIG Favourite small cap: KNBI (TSX) Favourite currency: USD Favourite index: Favourite short: WFC, VPRT

Here's how I would play it. Ignore the first bar. Then watch each minute bar, and if it goes below the previous bar low think about getting out. If it's not going parabolic, or went parabolic and the pattern is beginning to roll over, I would get out.

Just pointing out the fallacy that gold is rising to keep up with inflation. Or that gold is cheap relative to inflation.