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LMAO :cool:

China holds $725bln in treasuries & US bonds. Say they dump 50% in order to build roads and hospitals and such. That's $360bln or 10% of Chinese GDP. So far so good. Now how much of this is going to be offset by higher savings rates in North America and Europe punishing demand for Chinese...

Wealthy my ass. Nobody wealthy is applauding and acting like a happy 8 year old as they're being ripped off in a distressed asset sale.

What if the working hypothesis should not be "Can China stimulate itself out of the crisis" but "What if China goes into a multi-year depression". What if?

The time to buy BRK will be when we see "The death of Berkshire Hathaway" on the cover of TIME magazine. That will mark rock bottom :cool:

Unless Geithner pulls a "Lehman" on the FDIC and argues he has no authority :cool:

Keep an Excel. Before you start your position, enter your scale levels and stop loss. Stick with this no matter what. Makes it a tad easier to stay disciplined.

Why not trade EUR futures on GLOBEX. Your transactions are handled and guaranteed by a 3rd party exchange.

Long BTU, JOYG :cool:

Markets had a 50% bear market rally within the 90% decline 1929-1933. A rally to 1000 would be a 44% rally. "No way possible" is a little far fetched. It has happened before.

When will the first CNBC anchor break out in tears live on air, realizing their 401k filled with GE stock is going to zero?

This guy ought to be commended. Honesty is a rare feat on Wall St.

Think about it, who are you competing with in those time frames? Analyze carefully what kind of edge it would need to compete with these multi-billion Dollar quant HFs & desks on a leverage, trading cost, redundancy, exchange access & speed basis. Try changing your time frame to EOD or weekly...

Poetic justice. Let individual investors feel the pain. Nobody complained to regulators in 1999/2000 when Soros and Robertson got their tech short positions squeezed by individual investor money inflows into tech mutual funds :cool:

I hope this guy is sarcastic, he can't be serious now. They (Bernanke, Paulson + Geithner) let Lehman blow up on Monday and unleash hell on credit marktes and then bail out AIG on Wednesday because of "possible shockwaves". Yea that makes sense :cool:

According to the "House of Money" - as far as my recollection goes - many global macro managers use directional option positions to express their bets, thus have a "built in" stop loss -- when the options expire worthless.

Never have freezeups or flickers. 8gb ram, Vista x64.

I'm using www.csidata.com since years, couldn't be happier. I built all my futures systems using their data. Good support, my emails were always replied to very promptly.

There are many small professional CTAs (e.g. $10m in assets) that use Tradestation, simply because they have a pretty decent backtesting and execution platform that comes with years of intraday data -- despite all the well-known shortcomings.

Suppesedly Switzerland's direct loan exposure to EE/CEE is not as bad as others'. It seems Italy, Germany and Austria (first their banks, thus their economies) are much more at risk here. From: http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/02/glance-at-upcoming-eastern-european.html