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you are taking the other side of retails trade to make an orderly market... as ninety percent of these orders are day trades and weak hands - you run the market the oipposite was the retail money is flowing. making tiny increments over and over...

its human nature there is a certain amount of satisfaction in seeing other people get burned. i don;t know why that is. must be an animal/survival thing...you see it alot on these posts... there is a german word for it....anyone know what it is? shnauden something or other... there is no english...

i don't. i wont fight the trend but i firmly believe you can't fire a cannon out of a canoe.. politically, economically and otherwise - this rally is suspect to me... bond market shows it, commodity prices show it, real estate data shows it, growth data shows it, vix shows it, usd shows it...

all i think i need is one more monitor. then i get it and i love the extra real estate and i want more . MORE! MORE!!!!! i am getting a nice suntan from the exposure...

where do you guys look for asian session information? i check cbsmarketwatch but am wondering if there are any better sites? thanks in advance... ps - i have a i.b account - if there are relevant symbols - appreciate it.

bringing back the draft baby!!! thank god i have flat arches

dailyfx.com is nice.

we are getting our asses handed to us and we deserve it. has anyone been to china lately? i was there recently. they are focused on one thing and one thing alone and that is to make money. make money and save money... they are buying up america like nobodies business. they are growing at 13%...

pickin a top is way riskier... its every novice traders fantasy to sell the absolute top of a move or catch the exact bottom... this nonsense fuels itself. for instance - the market this week. everyone and their brother shorted the double top on the s&p - when this trade went the wrong way - the...

sure there is. the double top on the s&p was a potential entry for a reversal . i took it, lots of people took it. when it was violated, you hit your stop , lick your wounds and move on. a lower low on a bigger timeframe is another entry (say confirming weekly lower low and daily lower low) -...

there is no doubt the u.s's excess will catch up to it. however, trying to time the demise for the purposes of capitalistic gain are very tough. these types of healdines, if you are old enough to remember, which i am (said with a quiver in my voice and tear in my eye) have been around for twenty...

i just read every post on this thread and not one person is blaming the vix for anything or whining or claiming manipulation or black boxes are destroying them. so what are you talking about?? i don't disagree with some of what you wrote - but it just strikes me as odd you are upset with this...

the issue is that it could all go away overnight with regulation.so investing or trading these names is quite a gamble. pardon the pun... it is attractive though - never see these kind of growth rates unless something is addictive or immoral...

t boone must be hating this

i theorize this phenomenon has a lot to do with the black boxes and automated programs locking up volatility... watching the nasdaq l2 is like playing space invaders i think reality will kick in though it will likely be event driven.... some sort of black swan thing... this market is just...

i don't know if i'd want to try to mount tyson if i was pitching for the other team..no offense to the other team...

i guarantee we will hear of more funds imploding on this move...could see some panic selling...

carlos g made a good point yesterday in a interview... he was speaking regarding gm chiefs wagoners comment that the yen and yuan is hurting north american car producers. ghosn reminded the world that 80% of nissans north american car production is done in north america and their profit margins...

iran was given 2 deadlines.ultimatums. iran blew past both of them and have been thumbing their noses at america ever since... our bolt has been shot. we got nothing.can't even get sanctions online because china is the new world power - not debtmerica. its embarassing.. bush has no political...

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