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most folks around here weren't born during the bond bear that ended in 1982, 30 and 40 tick intraday moves were not unusual...15% 30 year treasuries and 14% money market, 15% inflation....20% prime..... the action nowadays, zzzzzzzzzzzz

my BRIT credits appear to have hit the pavement, or caught bird flu.... I'm no trader like you guys, since I prefer to buy/hold some of this debt stuff vs. feeding ulcers and the IRS.... occasionally trade gold/silver although the moving parts of debt is of interest

yikes... another 3 million oz. hauled off today...they must be using it to fill pot holes on Wall Street

there appears to be a black swan event happening somewhere.. a lot of stuff getting shoved over the side........

funny how contract law gets rewritten when the fat thumbs can't cover ..... looking at the S&P tonite gives me the sense that a quarter point hike could come at any time

btw, I thought you had to own GM paper before you could enter into a swap agreement, or did I miss the definition of "swap"? on second thought, I'm afraid of the answer....

I have a futures broker that has future source real time, If you pick around the NYMEX site, it's there someplace in the metals section... they may post it a day later oopps...the number was as of today

holy smokes, warehouse stocks down 3.6 million oz. yesterday...been awhile since I've seen that

no one that I've followed knows the viabilty of Cayman based hedge funds that are counterparties to all of this derivative wierdness Cayman based for a reason.......

as I recall, junk credit defaults were rising sharply months before equites broke.... The Fed. was unsympathetic and kept jacking up rates during the summer of 87 .... there seems to no fear of risk nowadays since everyone looks to the Fed to bail out anyone that shows up at the discount...

yikes, liquidity worldwide is locking up...seems to me anyway... feels like '87

world population growth is about 75 million per year....net 1.5 million per week....... sorry, consumption ain't slowing....

gee, sorta like standing on the stern of the Titanic, you're the last into the water

you might have the self inflicted misfortune of writing puts on something like Enron....... what could possibly go wrong?

thurs. and fri. equity charts were beaten like a rented mule... seems to say liquidity will begin to dry up in Q4, after the election...

the post 2000 "flight to garbage" into low quality stocks and junk bonds seems to be on the verge of the great unwind........ Sunday nite should be worth a Prozac or two......

3300 strike added to SIU06 options.....Hunt Bros. redux

during the 1980 $850 gold run, I recall some ads in WSJ etc. they appear to be a european conglomerate of stuff.........

if you're sick of watching G&S charts all day hoping for $1000/$20 in the next 4 minutes...take a break and go here to check out South Africa's view of the mining world.... nicely done and a different view of a part of the world that I know too little about http://www.miningmx.com/index.htm

ha...they must be delta short....