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Unemployment will skyrocket in 2010 once the subsidization of millions of jobs in factories with giant capacity under-utilization runs out. September sees elections in Germany. Any drastic social cuts to salvage the fiscal deficits will only be made post September, right when unemployment...

I've been short WYNN the last $10 (to the upside). Gotta love this stock and its squeezes :cool:

Exactly that. The US has a huge reservoir of "unused tax hikes" compared to the UK and Europe. That will enable the US to pay the interest on all the debt they're issuing now, at least for a while.

They call this a crash already? The market gave back what like 2 weeks of prior gains?

Wow big shocker there. My first thing in the morning was always to check Shanghai, closing up 0.5%-2% like clockwork, every day after day :cool:

There is a study out on the behavior of retail investors in stock and bond mutual funds. As one would guess they tend to buy tops and sell bottoms, grossly underperforming in the indexes over time. Over the past 20 years investors in stock mutual funds have underperformed the S&P500 by 6.5% a...

The boomers will have to rely on income (bonds, dividends, working) rather than asset speculation (stock prices, real estate) for their retirement. An entire generation that thought they'd all be millionaires when they're 60 suddenly realizing they're a dime a dozen.

More fat European senior citizens would emigrate to sunny Florida and enjoy the ultra cheap cost of living :cool:

If he's handling your account, make sure you either get another rep or move to a different bank. The guy obviously has no idea what he's talking about.

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I see many small and micro caps non-shortable at IB. All the 100 or so big caps that I follow are shortable.

I wasn't aware of that. I just remembered those older SEC filings from 2006. What you quoted is much more recent. I didn't know that doubling down on a failed bet is now called "managing a position" LOL

Please stick to the truth. You said in May at FDAX 4750 that sentiment (Goldberg's survey) was so bearish that we are guaranteed to see another huge short squeeze SHORT TERM and all the bears are wrong! Then you got replies from me and A_Susilovic that sentiment indicators are no better than...

This was filed with the SEC in Q1, 2006. If you assume ATM options and if he entered those contracts in Q4 2005 that puts the SPX portion of the contracts somewhere around the 1100/1200 ballpark. The interntaional stock indexes probably likewise. Other than that, some puts were allegedly also...

Who cares WHY THE MARKET RALLIED? Does it make any difference? At the end of the day either you made money or lost money. Right?

Today??? C'mon you went long all the existing triple and quadruple short ETFs three months ago already. What ever happened to those? Still averaging down on FAZ? Wow, looks like it reverse split. You bought at $1000? :confused:

The currencies seriously are weird today. EUR, AUD, NZD are not acting like they "usually" do during big upward spikes in the equity markets. Regarding gold. Hey, isn't it a "store of value"? Not a vehicle for speculation :D

All that is valuable insight, unfortunately we have to trade stocks at the bids and asks that are currently IN THE ACTUAL MARKET, not some fantasy prices that you think the market SHOULD BE trading at.

To each his own. My kids won't be liable for insane taxes in any of the G10 countries (and likely future tax hikes) and won't be asked to help clean up trillions in debt.

I endorse looking after my own good and not worrying too much what politicians and governments say or do. If I dont like it someplace then I simply move to another country. Trading makes one pretty much independent of jurisdictions. A lot of American crybabies on ET could simply give back...