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As Zero Hedge readers know, the reason why the US mint sold a record amount of silver American Eagle coins in November is unlikely a coincidence, and very possibly an indication that the recently disclosed plan as espoused by the MKs (Mike Krieger and Max Keiser) to destroy JP Morgan is working...

Can you see what we see ? It´s not very complicated : the whole senseless buying in Mini S&P has only ONE goal : to load off 100.000´s of positions via VWAP banksters and US hedge fund crooks have amassed in the last couple of days. This is organized crime.

The European Central Bank will continue to offer special longer-term liquidity tenders in 2011, President Jean-Claude Trichet said. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703377504575650422043652404.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

Question : how many paranoid, schizophrenic, pathological idiots are market participants in FDAX ? Answer : As many as think that there is a free lunch.

Better, Trichet finds the right ammunition of words in 5 minutes to address the media pack than Issing expressing opinions as a Goldman consultant....

A mystery buyer is apparently holding more than half of the copper stocks at the London Metal Exchange's warehouses, the latest revelation of how a single trader can roil an entire commodities market. That trader, whom the exchange hasn't identified, owns between 50% and 80% of the 355,750...

Miscommunication has accompanied Europe’s monetary union since the start. The economic crisis, however, has brought forth a Babel of voices. A recent example was the remark by Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union’s president, that the debt crisis would put the survival of the union in...

SPAIN: The sale of Eur3.3b had a bid/cover ratio of 2.27 up from 2.16 in Oct. The spread vs. Bunds narrowed to 238.4bp from 250.9bp yest.

We are just waiting until every idiot out there is long FDAX and exhausted. Thereafter we will - as usual make our 550 point trade.

Getting rid of all 7200 calls. Have a nice day. Buying 6250 puts.

I think we have to get rid off these 6850 calls. Thank you London desks-you are as usual providing us with some liquidity.

That is not only market manipulation. That´s like acting as a market oligopoly. Since Lehman and Bear Stearns have left the market place there is no competition going on. Deutsche and SocGen´s prop groups have also left the market place. So what´s left ? A bunch of London US desks and their...

Eurex has sold itself to US banks and their interest groups.

http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/banken-versicherungen/euro-hilfspaket-irische-banken-sollen-in-der-krise-gemogelt-haben;2703897;2 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/1202/1224284573631.html

Hum, because Greece government is still expecting some sort of debt default and restructuring ? Haven´t you heard the story that the largest CDS holders are Greek banks themselves ? It´s always good to default on its own government bonds and being paid by neighbor European countries for the...

Take a look at the volumes : 33.000 contracts per 15 minutes. That´s what usually is traded in 5 minutes. If this is not "coordinated" scam - I don´t know what is....

I will tell you what´s going on : several heavy hedge funds and other momo players are full to the hilt with index futures and are playing the time game. If at the end of the day the closing price is higher than their VWAP there will be champagne for everyone involved. Otherwise there is no...

No, Uncle Sam isn’t bailing Europe out http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/12/01/423741/no-uncle-sam-isnt-bailing-europe-out/

Either US Treasury officials (or Reuters ledes) are supreme masters of subtlety, or markets are very stupid. We’re going with the latter. We want you to carefully note the following wording of this Reuters report: The United States would be ready to support the extension of the...

Release Date: December 1, 2010 For immediate release The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday posted detailed information on its public website about more than 21,000 individual credit and other transactions conducted to stabilize markets during the recent financial crisis, restore the flow of...