you saved me $$$ bro, cuz i was thinking about a short with a ten pt stop. but the stop run reminder prompted me to look at the worst-case stop run possibilities, which ran to 1250, and i decided life was too short (so to speak)
so thanks! i owe ya
Valid questions! Tardy answer!
Briefly, I peg 37.50 as the top of the trading range. We either break out or break down. Looks like we're going to break out.
Nice advice, btw, to whomever it was contemplating a short last night...
Based on my own decidedly unscientific sampling of OWS participants, I conclude that this guy's not an outlier -- e.g., he's fairly representative of the fat middle of the OWS bell curve
I believe L.C. implied quite the opposite when he opined that another initiative might well be in the works. Moroever, I don't think anyone is suggesting that whatever the Fed may or may not have up its sleeve will "fix" the eurozone. Just that it might give the market a b.s. excuse to rally...
Spot on! At last, Baker has exposed the stone-cold, elitist, technocratic heart of the F.T.T. for all to see.
Bottom line: BAKER WANTS TO THROW ORDINARY AMERICANS OUT OF WORK SO HE CAN HAVE HIS WAY WITH WALL STREET.
There's that. But a lot of folks are disenchanted with the stock market these days. They see their paltry mutual fund returns, then read about investment banking bonuses and say, "screw 'em"--even if, in fact, they're the ones who would be screwed by this tax.
The appeal of F.T.T. is not...