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    Plenty of Blame to Go Around

    geopolitically - you might be on to something here. The Chinese don't want to empower their own consumers, they want to empower their state with vast infrastructure projects... I suppose they could learn a new way and try that out- forgetting the U.S and creating a buying atmosphere...
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    Bailout May Be Granddaddy of All Carry Trades

    Japanese are still wondering when...
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    Prop in London, UK

    a better question is does alien have a profitable system?
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    "The time to buy is when blood is running in the streets."

    funny thing is the modern day Nathan Rothschild runs Atticus with another guy- global hedge fund. (down 25% ytd)
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    Ben Stein Says 'Bailout' Is A Scam: Use Money To Bailout Homeowners Directly

    this is all relative to the overpaid bank executive, not average homeowner etc.... thats all my point was. If the Market can't digest an idea, its unlikely that we can here on ET...
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    Buying crude oil options for 2012 and beyond

    Peter Thiel has comments about this from back in 2005 in the book - "inside the house of money" In short, there is no liquidity that far out, so he proposed to the reader / people at the Drobny Conference that they buy Canadian oilsand Equities.
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    Ben Stein Says 'Bailout' Is A Scam: Use Money To Bailout Homeowners Directly

    the problem is not who is wrong here- it's who is more wrong. Is an executive at WAMU or wherever, who might earn $25 million neext year or two... all on the back of the US taxpayer, less wrong than the average homeowner who gets shafted because either: A. His real estate or mortgage...
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    Dr Doom on CNBC- classic stuff

    look at the EURJPY chart, what happened around June 20th? Duh
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    Dr Doom on CNBC- classic stuff

    On June 20th he said to short the EURJPY. He should be up significantly on that "paper trade" But I admit he's been wrong about other things many times before...
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    Expectancy Driven Trading System - your experiences

    jumped ahead what about instantaneous risk- basically you're monitoring the behavior of every current trade as to how it fits your model- if you could in theory dynamically adjust your risk to suit your model at any given time you'd have a very nice Market neutral strategy... expectancy...
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    Short seling: The T+3 Close-Out Requirement

    patchie- I think you are a believer in too much of that overstock, dendreon flytiger conspiracy theory nonsense. SAC was up only 1% ytd last I read about a week ago - I doubt very much they are getting rich shorting naked in this environment.
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    Next UP...Redemptions On Hedge Funds

    alot of them are 50% in cash. But ya, you have some good points.
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    Short seling: The T+3 Close-Out Requirement

    interesting point patchie- are offshore funds and their offshore brokerages being held to the same standards as US brokers and funds are? The confusion and lack of transparency leaves something to be desired.
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    Financials bottoming here people...

    remember Simon1980 has to be right at least once a day...
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    Meanwhile in the rest of the world...

    Germantrader- how many of the oligarchs AREN'T jews?
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    buy in notices being issued........

    loads of crap as usual. 90% of all drugs in development fail regardless of your internet chatroom hosted plots.
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    buy in notices being issued........

    tiger- you're groups beloved decrepit biotech - INGN is up 28% today, mind you its on light volume.. when the biotech sector is down aside from IMCL news.... Must be the naked shorting :)
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    Could volatility be predicted ?

    it's called GARCH- look it up... not that greatest thing, but its a tool.
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    WTF? The US can bail-out foreign banks too?

    "We are all getting together and are printing a whole bunch of money - its a great thing we're doing"
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    Treasury Seeks Asset-Buying Power Unchecked by Courts

    Even mushrooms can shed insight - politicians aren't so lucky.
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