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On what information are you basing this claim that the young man was a "POS" ? Better be damn good, or you are a slandering a dead man who was barely into his life. God help your society if "he punched me so I shot him dead" is supposably a defence. And that scenario is about the best the guy...

Idiot. This case isn't about politics, its about one human killing another. The scary thing to me is if the roles were reversed, a black man killing a white boy on the way home from school, I'm not sure how that story plays in Southern US. Zimmerman is obviously a lunatic, but the fact that a...

No. I wouldn't. The young man is dead because of some vigilante nutter with a gun. Something wrong with the US when gun crimes are so easily tolerated. This is not an ethnic issue, the OJ Simpson trial was another example of a guy obviously guilty of a monstrous crime resulting in death. If...

No free money on markets. When short term money seems effortless it reflects a real risk short term. I agree though miners with expensive mines have fundamental issues, but the larger quality miners may have oversold. Pick your stocks carefully.

The "reversal" is basically over and anything past this point is a new trade. SPX tried to test support around 1550 and rebounded. TSX dropped 8% mostly on weakness in mining stocks, but has rebounded 3% of that. Technology took a hit today that is worth monitoring. Significant buying on...

You've got to be kidding me. Some nut case abuses the concept of neighborhood watch and shoots a kid, and you post this shit ? If he shot your brother or mother you'd be singing a different tune.

I have no issue with your trades, I was addressing "broker boy" and identifying your trade as a profitable one with a clear exit. You might note that broker boy criticized your exit because he felt it was low risk to hold longer, which in fact wasn't the case as was confirmed earlier today. I...

Seems to me that lojanica already cashed his straddle at a profit and you are still holding a short that can at best be barely profitable at today's prices. My point is you can have all the economic theories in the world ( and some of yours are quite extravagant lately ), but without a clear...

Gold is more a hedge that should probably never exceed 20% of your holdings for any reason. The spike since july 08 was associated with the fear trade held by those who believe the US is heading into a Depression, and that QE was merely delaying that inevitability. So, if this theory doesn't...

And home owners have been rewarded with a nice return for two decades on their investment, even though most don't care it was a place to live. Any capital gain on selling is tax free. US markets a few years back seemed to have far more speculation going on. National figures are pretty...

You seem forever wrapped up in conspiracy theories and calling for massive drops in US markets. You are not alone on this site doing that. Try this for a change. You said you shorted the S&P, but when it went against you for a while, the claim was it was a small position, and that markets are...

Nasdaq was at that point primarily one sector plus highly speculative companies in others. The mainstream US indexes are quite different, massive drops are far less likely. Profitability is also very different. Something like S&P dropping 30% is more of a massive drop because it encompasses so...

TSX down 8% from the top. I'm patiently awaiting a bottom to be established. A fund manager on the tube today confirmed my thinking, that the TSX is oversold, except the mining stocks that could free fall more all year. He said they aren't buying anything YET but they are covering all their...

Take a deep breath. There is no ugliness. Try this exercise. Write down where the SPX was January 1st. Express today's level in terms of percentage move up since then AND percentage move down since the yearly top. Now, consider that normally a "correction" requires at least a 10% drop...

Op seems basically expecting the worst at all times. Must not drive or travel on airplanes because he/she would be concerned about crash statistics. I liked the one where they state Dell buying up his own company is some sort of scam.

I offered up multiple years, you picked 2000 by design. Doesn't really matter, I have no bias. I will say though I was buying index funds in 2009, and not buying them in 2000. That was my choice as a discretionary investor. I don't see panic. Maybe its because I'm in Canada; saw a poll today...

I would question your assumption that there is significant inflation. Gold could crash hard very easily. It depends on psychology and loyalty from hard core gold investors who may tire of having essentially dead money ( or worse ) after 2-3 years. There is no backstop from industrial demand or...

That stat is useless because it assumes investors plunked all their money into their funds at the top of the market. More realistic would be start in 1980 or 1990 ( for example ) and assume the same monthly investment in the market every year for many years. QE allowed US markets to recover...

I was just observing disparities between different markets and whether SPX is easier to trade; obviously any money making trade is good and you are into riskier leveraged plays ( and more profitable ) then I am at this time. I had a theory a couple of years ago that Gold might be a bubble and...

Something tells me you'll still be bitching about markets in three years wondering why they didn't crash. Bernanke's legacy will be quite good moving forward. Its funny how most legit analysts are decently bullish about the US economy ( including the World Bank that has a growing rate in 2015 )...