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Besides broker commissions + SEC fees, what other fees does the nyse currently charge? I read something about additional nyse transaction fees hitting smaller b/d's while back. Anyone know?

What happened to volume? Sectors that typically have 2-3% ranges suddenly have 1% range. Volume on the exchange down significantly past 2 days. Anyone else surprised that volume is down with Hybrid? a function of hybrid or market conditions? most daytraders have cut their volume past...

they turn off cos the daytraders they're taking money from go home.

the vast majority of homeowners afford their monthly mortgage payments. we are also in an economic expansion, the capital markets are in a bull market.

a housing "catastrophe" as many of you are calling for would require the US going back to the stone ages basically. we would go back to bartering feathers and spears and live in caves. is there a food bubble as well? man, there's just so much inventory at the supermarket.

a drop of nasdaq2000 proportions would require nearly half of all homeowners to dump their homes in unison. question, where will they live? will they go rent at higher prices as rental demand skyrockets?

They do afford them, hence the price. Given a normal deposit, monthly mortgage payments are near equal renting prices in the city.

You don't seem to understand. Most people can afford monthly payments on their mortgages. Besides owning a house, you have two other options. Renting or going homeless. People with the means do not sell their homes so that they can rent at higher prices. Nor do they sell their...

looks like oil's in an UPTREND?

you were on the back of the line. there weren't enough buyers to give you short sell. the 9:03 last short order to participate was the last order in front of you who got matched with the remaining balance of buyers available on the open print. since there weren't enough buyers to satisfy...

it doesn't matter cos the vast majority of homeowners can afford their mortgage payments and have no intention to go homeless.

don't you use a form of mean regression model as your primary entry strategy, ie channels, oversold indicators, etc. then you do use past trend to determining your entry point. trend or counter-trend, without past data, your entries would be utterly random.

checkmate

surf, question about your long oil position. Do you not require an uptrend in oil for it to be profitable?

buy and hold assumes no risk management. that is not how trend followers have made careers.

"market climbs a wall of worry." The very notion of worry-wall climbing says a lot about how markets operate. They can't climb walls of optimism, because whatever makes investors as a group feel optimistic at any given time is almost certainly already reflected in stock prices. To push...

nope, that is "buy and hold". i never heard of covel.

Yes it does work. I think some people are just better at it than others. That the majority cannot do it should not negate it. Marketsurfer seems to be making a point that most trendfollowers lose when chasing momentum. That is true too.

believe it or not, trendfollower will sell stock in an uptrend.

a trend follower will not buy a stock already 9 moves in one direction. he will most likely be selling and looking to get long again at some later point.