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    Those "unbelievable" US payrolls

    David Rosenberg has said the same thing - mentioned th ADP report (next month?) will refute the number, and it will mean revert...
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    People with degrees making 13 bucks an hour

    I can't wait for the day some cultural studies major from Duke tells me they can't find a job... ...what, Fredric Jameson didn't warn you about this economic crisis??!!?
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    Trading CDS

    Sounds like it happened to you :)
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    Trading CDS

    Ideally it would be nice to buy a CDS on your greedy next door neighbor... you could take his nice sports car or sleep with his wife when he defaults... Then again, its America, you can do that anyways :) But ex-employees buying CDS's ... hard to hedge that risk.
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    Buying a seat in CBOE

    Whats the ROR on those seats, aside from their appreciation? Given that people are going or have gone electronic for the last 10 years, I fail to see the edge.. and the cost associated with a seat...
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    The Dubai show must go on

    Skyscrapers and Business Cycles: http://mises.org/story/3038
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    Unemployment really at 17.2%?

    Traderzones- I could care less whether the self-employed bought into the plan and can get their unemployment. The point was that potentially self-employed people with significantly reduced incomes were being listed as fully employed....
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    Unemployment really at 17.2%?

    Self-employed people are a good buffer to hide the effects of unemployment. Real estate agents, handymen, landscapers, technical workers, tradespeople... all could be working 15hrs a week right now and it wouldn't show up at all... there could be 5 million people right there unaccounted for...
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    AmiBroker 25x times faster than...

    4Q.. you're exactly right. Its for the guy who likes to experiment and tweak things... The unfortunate thing is I have been caught up with optimizing signals, etc and its very addictive because it only takes 30 seconds to get an answer.. so this is probably detrimental to pure trading, but...
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    Former SAC Capital Employee Details Forced Oral Sex, Hormone Use, Sodomy, And Cross D

    they should have just made him post his trades on ET. I'm sure that would be more humiliating...
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    Sen. Bunning right on about Bubble Ben Bernanke!!!!!

    Freemarkets, awesome post! Karl: Richard Koo's book is a real eyeopener for those who think the US is doing a better job than Japan had done....
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    It's much better to buy slightly OTM options than ATM ones?

    Live Vol- they bought those to short that to nothing...
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    Gold still far from 1980 peak

    Anyone have any GC data, continuous contract they don't mind sharing?
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    CAD banks still look strong - profit up, revenue up, provisions down - BMO

    Kaz, whats your view on Sprott and his managers... they want nothing to do with Canadian or US Banks... If I recall correctly, he mentioned a $50 billion payment (keep reading, it was actually much higher) to Canadian banks from the Canadian Gov't during the Credit crisis, which other than...
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    security tool fake

    I use malwarebytes too... Great free product... free version of AVG is a good idea too...
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    Career Change To Broker's Assistant?

    doublef is more right than he looks... surprisingly right. Bruce Covner used to drive a taxi I recall reading that in Market Wizards.... I run a drafting business that is struggling through this recession... with dreams of moving to trading full time... The only probably I see is that...
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    ari kiev: dead @ 75.

    Trading Psychology Books... Focusing - see Gendlin Ruth Roosevelt - Habitudes of Traders.. Woody Dorsey - Behavorial Trading Steenberger - a few Alexander Elder - a few, look Theres more.. but usually you should start with differentiating your current state as a trader...
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    ari kiev: dead @ 75.

    I have copies of his books if anyone wants them. They aren't really that good, sorry to say.
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    The dark side of Dubai - expat story

    They probably wipe their asses with trader monthly in Dubai...
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    Martin Armstrong Needs Your Help!

    He did say that his "handlers" sought to discredit him...
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