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Yes, blah,blah,blah, don't forget the young frustrated female South Korean students that pack Borders (Charing Cross Rd) every evening, or the Polish & Brazilian babes serving £5.00 soggy sandwiches at Pret A Manger, or all those girls on the tube after paying £3.00-5.00 single tube fare :D Or...

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My favourite words at the Poker table :D If you are ever around will take you for a tournament to Loose Cannon Club Here in London, a lot of retail lemmings have been pulling out of mutual fund type investments, and a few bucket shops have been reporting increased net short...

Nice set up, but do you have leg space ?

Forget DOW just CROX all the way to $0.01. STUPID SANDALS !! :D

How do your thoughts (or feeling as reflected in your post) translate into tangible trading thesis/idea/environment which you can apply on a given instrument ( stocks/futures/ETF/warrants/CFDs/FX e.t.c) within well defined risk parameters and profit if it happens ? Unless you are doing academic...

Its funny, in today's Financial Times (London Edition) Mr Alan Greenspan has almost a full page article he has written which includes some interesting statements "...How did we go so wrong ? As complex as they are,our systems - both risk and econmetric - are too simple..."...

Great stuff. Thats classic ! There are people who still equate skin colour/background with ability :D P.S. l am Black African (Zimbabwe)

Which way is the wind blowing ?

Sell the rallies or Buy the dips hehe :p

There is a beautiful pull out section in this week's The Economist magazine on the "fund management industry"

I hope am wrong,can be flammed & told to bendover and take it, but its a 50/50 chance, don't mind my stops getting hit and going back on the sidelines, its definetly a bumpy ride for Buy & Hold. Think c.2001 for manic depressive types like me gloom & doom environments help us thrive :)

Each to their own....

Spent the day reading up for my macro bets for next year. Think will draw the line at Nigerian banks & Bangladeshi IPO's :D

On our side of the pond we have similar gig called Zopa.com . Got a few pennies loaned out in the A market just for a punt, but putting more than £2000 on a P2P ( peer to peer ) personal finance website is just asking for it.:)

www.afrifocus.co.za Been together 2 years, donno if their opening requirements have tightened against foreigners. Please do not forget exchange **rate risk** and remember that their inflation is running amok c.11%:cool:

Tell me you are joking, or at the very least paper trading !:eek:

True you can "exit" via options and should have a strategy to do so, but how many here would be able to keep their heads during such situations ? :p

Thats all fine and fair, but NEVER EVER EVER forget some commodities have Limit UP/DOWN days. Pull out your chart book and look at Soybeans in the early 1970's and tell me Jan-Mar 1973 Jul-Sep 1974 (DAILY) how many traders on the wrong end of those moves did not reach for Magnum .45

Kinda funny, when you are doing your quarterly performance review, pat yourself on the back and then have a glass of wine you read something like this http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7b6160be-9b80-11dc-8aad-0000779fd2ac.html