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Most people on this site are short volatility... theres your answer.

If they didn't pull this wool over your eyes, the carry traders would be eating Kraft dinner tonight.

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/bond-performance-quantitative-easing-bank-of/5/5/2010/id/28053 Suckers are the ones who don't read this article and position themselves accordingly

This is an impetus for unwinding the carry trade, and buying us long bonds against the macro backdrop Howard Simons describes well... http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/bond-performance-quantitative-easing-bank-of/5/5/2010/id/28053

Did anyone go bankrupt today? I had my best day ever.

James, I think you'll find my comments quite prescient. And just to soothe my own ego, I am up over 100% on the RS Reliance Industries June 45 Puts I bought before their earnings (I believe you were telling your trolls to BUY BUY BUY) And I own Treasury Calls.... TLT Thanks for paving...

This is a really good article. Well spoken. Looks like he might be Rishi's brother (author of inside the black box, good intro to how black boxes typically work) Wonder what Bright will have to say about this :)

Skip this thing. Another me too pharma Company masquerading as "innovative biotech"

I sent a friend an email posting to a greece story. The title of the email was "GOLDMAN SENDS TROJAN HORSE INTO EUROZONE" Pretty accurate, don't you think?

Most of these stars burn out after leaving the hive especially bankers, hedgies not so much - though look at SAC's spill-offs... plenty that didn't survive after their incubation there. The opportunity to front run clients (whether directly or indirectly by way of liquidity), utilizing...

brings new meaning to the term "under the table"

They need to put something in their pipeline to smoke. Its too late for that. There is no blockbuster's going forward. Wyeth is a research oriented firm, and PFE is more or less a Marketing firm. It was designed to save money now, and pad some investment bankers accounts. Going forward...

This solar storm sure is improving everyones moods.

Theres a piece in a reputable book I read, in it people talked to some big brokers and they called Buffett the big whale. I read he bought $200 million in Silver about 10-15 years ago... He absolutely DOES buy commodities, and trade them...

There's only 2 things you can export nowadays --- goods or interest rates Europe has just figured that out.

amibroker

john paulson maybe?

The problem is that most young entrepreneurs are still looking in the rear-view mirror - back at 2000 era startups that produced nothing. Venture Capitalists on the whole are spending ZERO. Why? Because they basically have a cashflow problem, they figured back in 2000, the companies they...

This is like saying I run 5km every week. I've signed up for Boston, but I find the entry fee kind of steep, but I plan on winning, and the winner gets a $50,000 prize. Automating a moving average is about that stupid. In the very least, to be polite, FLAWED.

spinn has the simplest and most accurate view imo. Jeff Rubin has this macro-recession view suggesting oil has nowhere to go but up over time, and may have caused this past recession (which is a naive view to me; really its like a formula one racer saying his engine blew up because the oil...