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I have contradictory messages about the impact of a weakening dollar on the economy and markets. On the one hand, US goods become cheaper for foreignor countries or alternatively, they can charge higher prices and reap greater profits--the dollar serves basically as a credit note which the...

Agreed totally.

TD Ameritrade does not allow you to open positions on DRL online I believe on that day it went down 30% on no news; this is what they said. "According to our systems, the security you are trying to purchase, DRL, has been added to our suspicious trading list" A Yahoo message got an...

8 months later, 80% down in price: See DRL now--I can't be wrong forever! http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=89700

Now the 17 million shorts are in DEAP TROUBLE. The problem was refinancing and liquid cash, and therefore bankrupcy scares, which made the stock drop [even further] from levels like $3 and $2.50--down to $1.20 instead of back up to $4-$5. Now, DRL has freed up much of their capital requirements...

With the news regarding subprime loans added to everything else, today should have taken a big dip; but for some reason it didn't happen. That says to me there is a bigger imperitive, i.e. options expiration week and the huge open interests on puts (contrarian theory). I now believe the market...

If I'm not mistaken, that has to do more with going after CEO's etc. regarding individual stocks. But what about going after the specialists, MM's, professional stock manipulators? On the one hand, it would seem you would want for yourself a clean attorney the same as you would a clean...

Okay, maybe we'll start with either A) illegal shorting or B) front running, or C) seemingly the specialists?? manipulating the price affect of news announcements to their own favor--depending on if they are long or short.

Hey, I thought the ET folks were bold?!

I just started the following thread: "Massive class action for traders: Milberg Weiss?" http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=88771

It's a bit shocking that when illegal manipulation is detected in the securities markets something more is not done. (The average Elite Trader could probably mention about 5 items not being handled). I would imagine that the individual trader has no power, but if united with others then maybe...

I have formulated my own opinions about NY stock exchange specialists (and for that matter the same applies to AMEX)---but what did you mean when you said the above comments: why is it so important to trade in the same direction as the specialist?

You first imply the specialist isn't really the bad guy, then you say the professional trader isn't really either; if so, then who is?

Are these other professional traders MM's? If not, how do they get so their information about who is on the other side of the trade (e.g., a retail trader)? Do they not first see if they can conquer the retail trader by playing with the price--before resorting to hedging?

Would you not agree that a specialist will hedge trades only after seeing if he can influence the stock in the direction of his favor?

How do these guys get away with it?

I strongly believe the price impact of news as determined by the specialist/MM depends on their position in the stock, whether long or short. I believe the specialist holds a big short position in DRL. DRL just made some added statement about concern of refinancing, which was already a major...

To Don Bright, When you say to take to trade with the MM, what do you say about the following: If retail traders took a big position let's say in a small-medium cap stock, does that create a "need" for the stock to turn against them? (If yes, in the short run, intermediate, or long)?

What are your thoughts about HotSpotFXI, EFX Group, and MBTrading as opposed to Currenex? Note the descriptions below: http://www.vcapfutures.com/forex-trading/institutional-fx-platforms.asp Currenex – Currenex is an ECN-based platform that provides live, streaming, executable bids...

It disturbs me how someone can say such a blatant falsehood about anyone or anything. That's using one's God given gift of intelligence and power of speech to become less than an animal. Thank you for this objective evaluation.