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Anyone see the US treasury bill skit on Saturday Night Live last night? Now everyone in the USA is a macro trader...

John Ehler has an article in this months stocks amd commodities magazine. But really, I fail to see what mirroring the Markets moves using an SMA can generate in terms of profitable trades... most of these guys articles conveniently gloss over this issue.

I've read various authors - Ruth Roosevelt, Adrienne Toghraie, Ari Kiev, etc... There is no systematic assessment of how damaging being undercapitalized, or heavily reliant on trading as a direct source of income can be for traders. All they offer is advice, but a trader has to implement...

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The bigger your size, the more liquidity is an issue. You should measure the available liquidity at the prices you buy and sell to determine if those signals are still valid as your size increases.

Canadian banks aren't 4 years ahead, they are 4 years behind..... Shit hasn't hit the fan up here yet. But it's coming fast. As for the US, as long as they can hide their losses or avoid them being acknowledged as such, through political maneuvering and games like "who owns this house"...

every GM share comes with a "new car smell" freshener.

its only has to get stronger against itself to go up...

A good volatility hedge fund might protect you adequately... The volatility would be high enough to compensate your currency risk under extreme scenarios. Also there are overlay strategies to hedge out currency risk that are probably very cheap right now, given the volatility in Markets being...

Sounds like the strategies may suffer from a little slippage now and then...

Nasdaq stocks never claimed to be a store of wealth. Most could have just as easily sold off to zero instead of -78% on the index. Gold can have a supply of scrap jewelry tempering its price. But Gold is a good indicator of when equities will bottom, and it leads on the way down (2008...

Ben Bernanke might have an inflatable girlfriend, but he doesn't have an inflatable economy.

Who has time for all this blog shit? It probably took him hours to write some useless words about a useless topic...

I would say bonds... so far so good, that may change. I wouldn't say penny stocks, because they may use buying and selling algorithms on any volume generating news in advance of your position, or if you are a big investor or institution, you may get front run.

Cervelo bicycles are made of carbon fiber and used in the Tour de France by the worlds best. They have all been made in China for years now. This is a high-end product costing $2-8k for the bicycle. There is more foreign content in a GM car then a new Kia made in Georgia...

High IV in OTM puts implies significant risks - Some traders have used IV in OTM Options as an indicator of potential default ... I read an article in Wilmott about it. The indicator was used to trade CDS in a more accurate manner. Tyco was one of the example stocks... The equity option gave...

Exactly true... China did their own printing internally though.. homes, business loans, etc.... I'm not sure which will turn out to be more damaging, China or the Fed.. perhaps they'll suffer the same fate..

Aside from the first post, no one mentioned the possibility of another Flash Crash... Issues in Europe, Capital Controls in Asia.. among some of the more obvious political issues that people like David Rosenberg has brought up recently - "The 99ers".... If the Market is in a knot, I can't...

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