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For what its worth, Congressman Barney Frank just announced a proposal to buy back some of the "cancerous" mortgage securities. Turn off CNBC and TRADE!!! :)

And now we need 535 morons in Congress to figure out that there is a problem with these "under the desk" OTC securities that are UN-REGULATED and leveraged 33:1 Unreal.

Coming from someone that asked the question about whether or not the FED could put a "price-cap" on crude oil . . . that's pretty rich. If anyone is confused, it is you. Or were you not the person that said that the "banks have no money" only to then post the very next day that "they still...

The initial "ramp" was 14 handles in 8 minutes . . . The second "ramp" was 10 handles in 4 minutes . . . the third "ramp" was 12 handles in 15 minutes. How could anyone not love these moves!!! Longhorns must be killing 'em today! :D

Wow, looks like I struck a nerve being "critical" of your God Mr. Rogers . . . In similar vein, have you ever noticed that the likes of Stevie Cohen or Paul Tudor Jones or Stanley Druckenmiller avoid CNBC ( and the media in general ) like the plague? It's because they actually do TRADE and...

Bob, take a good look at LLL. CHK too. :)

Who cares? Traders don't care. They just care about making money and catching moves! :p

Yes, over the last couple of years Rogers has been right about commodities and the dollar. What you might not know is that he has been around for the past 30 years and some of his "calls" haven't been that great. For some of the "newbies" on ET, they fail to realize this. The guy met George...

First off, it does not take a "rocket-scientist" to figure out ( or observe ) that the dollar has been in a strong DOWNTREND and that commodities have been rallying . . . Why does anyone on ET think that figuring out the above observations is so freaking difficult??? Many traders are able...

He's so full of BS and he knows that he can get away with it when appearing on CNBC because the anchors are just a bunch of ignorant "lap-dogs" and simply nod at everything that he says. :D

The content of his "reform" speech was already published earlier today. The markets already knew what he was going to say, or were you not aware of this?

His speech was about reforming the financial system as it revolves around rating agencies and mortgage-backed securities. It was not suppose to be a speech on what needs to be done to fix everything RIGHT HERE AND NOW. He admitted that the situation of "de-leveraging" is almost too...

It's Carlyle Capital that is in trouble. They just announced to investors today that they have given up trying to re-structure their financing arrangement with the banks that loaned them money to leverage their mortgage-backed investments to the tune of 33:1 and are unable to meet the...

Why is this even in the TRADING FORUM? Hello??? Do you work for Baron or something? Is this yet another absurd attempt to try and generate 'web-hits' so that it can be used to market to potential advertisers on ET? Every single day there is a handful of these "threads" that have...

Do you work for Baron or something? Is this yet another absurd attempt to try and generate 'web-hits' so that it can be used to market to potential advertisers on ET?

It's called LEVERAGE. Investment Funds like Carlyle Capital were leveraged 33:1 invested in Triple AAA mortgage-backed securities backed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. It's not debt as you understand it in your oh-so-simplistic view of economics and how the financial markets work. It's no...

That's pretty freaking funny because he has no idea what he is talking about. :D U.S. subsidies for growing corn and manufacturing it into Ethanol go into the BILLIONS of dollars to the Farmer. Farmer's are driving Maseratis AND they are getting a "hand-out" from the Govt. Roger's says...

Corrupt investment bankers? You mean you have a problem with the ability of investment funds to leverage mortgage backed securities up to 33:1 ??? What's wrong with that? It's standard practice on the Street. Where is the "corruption" in using leverage at 33:1 on mortgage backed...

A real trader? Have you ever noticed how he appears on CNBC and never has a losing trade? He's ALWAYS positioned in the "right" direction? Short financials, banks, homebuilders, long metals and mining, gold, commodities, blah, blah, blah . . . and never a losing trade. Interesting. I...

Given the tremendous amount of money that has been indexed to commodities over the last several years, I would strongly disagree that over 60% of the volume on the NYMEX is from hedgers.