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The U.S. markets are not alone here - most global markets are at all time highs in break out mode.

most contrarian view right now That the Fed will never really raise interest rates very much. Dream on -history shows otherwise. When a swing begins from an extreme level, it tends to swing to the opposite extreme before reversion to the means. People always think this time it will be...

Why would Bridgewater hedge fund hold 87% of equity assets in simple ETF's? Why not?, where else ale are their going to put their cash, bury it in central park? Many ETF's these days have very low fees, tight spreads, & track the underlying accurately. The products that attract retail due to...

Moving out of IB - after months of having a technical problem that cant fix with not receiving quotes for stocks/ETFs they billed me $62 in fictitious charges above my normal fees. Their tech support is not disputing my problem - they have my screenshots and tickets to back this up. They are...

Retail Forex trading probably does not even register on the radar screen - after all this market is traded by global banks, central banks, & corporations. The Forex market is $5,000 billion. Some retail clowns are nothing more than couch change in the worlds money supply. Individual Investors...

As a long time Hawaii resident we have a number of monopolies here and sure need more competition. Glad Southwest will be coming to the islands. Looks like SW wins the category for having more spacious seating in economy over our current carriers - Hawaiian & United. With my profits made from...

In general, US index futures hardly move outside Chicago hours. Wrong... On average the day session has wider ranges, not by a wide margin and not all the time. The volume & ranges in the ETH have been picking up over the years. There are many times when the after hours ranges are wider and...

What seems to be missing from this market? Broad public participation - this is said to be the most hated bull market in history.

12 hour charts for day trading and no coffee? He sounds like he checked out of the whole program like colonel Kurtz. Whats next?, maybe Matt's next email will read "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the...

Systematic trading has wider draw downs and their upside has taken a nose dive now that that arena is so crowded. Discretionary traders typically use a rules based approach to minimize emotions. Programming automated strategies is pretty easy these days. Even I can program on 4 different...

I know - It was just pay back time for all the jabs made by quants/algos new to trading with a real pompous attitude thinking it would be a walk in the park to outgun the discretionary traders forged from years to decades of dog fighting in real trading. Besides, the Princeton geeks were doing...

Or if you had followed the Obama buy signal you wouldn't have to trade anymore.

Well the thing is investors do care about a traders or a funds performance and they do compare them. I don't think quants would declare in their prospectus " does not work in bull markets", doesn't math work all the time?, or maybe they forget to include bull market conditions into their...

People tend to accuse others they know nothing about of being ... just like them.

Studies going back many decades have concluded in academia the same over & over - homes with guns have a much higher rate of gun related deaths. The same applies to states & nations - more guns = more gun deaths, come on this is not rocket science and where you get your cartoon quality no-name...

Please back up this absurd claim that 70% of gun violence is committed with guns obtained legally. You can pour of the CDC (Center for Disease Control), they track this. Most firearm deaths, contrary to popular belief, are not in the street, they are right in the home : firearm suicides...

When I started really getting into trading the best thing we had was Yahoo forums(lame) and you couldn't find anything of value outside of Market Wizards. Traders in this era have the opposite problem - information overload - to much info, to many books, to many web sites. I think us older...

You can go to any city and run into at least one nut job with a mega phone blasting out how everyone is going to die today. Are they prophets or just mentally ill? The MGM stock had been at highs over the last 3 months and failed to make a new high - Us T.A. traders would consider this a...

Cramer is no slouch when it comes to managing a hedge fund. I never forgot how he described what had to happen for the market to make to make a bottom to rally from in a time when it was nearly free falling - he was spot on correct. He is a professionally trained and is one of the few that will...

Having your largest size on when you are wrong is not a good idea. “….. after the initial transaction, don't make a second unless the first shows you a profit. Wait and watch. That is where your tape reading conies in to enable you to decide as to the proper time for beginning. It took me...