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interesting, thanks for the info, and good trading to you. 2010 had play by play podcasts of the flash crash and investigation (ahem), for cause. This seems ho hum, move along, nothing to see here. Yet i believe your take on it. US equities about the worst performer the last 5 days vs...

Whatever happened to the Zerohedge guy saying it only takes a few bucks to hammer the VIX and get back to VWAP or green before the close. How do you traders compare batshit moves from 2008 to the last few days?

The open on any gven day has always been mysterious to me. Just more intense today. Do traders at GS or hedge funds know the of liquidity at any price level prior to the open? Me thinks not. Can today be just a lot of market players doing the same thing very fast at the open , then adjusting...

The market has virtually priced out a SEP rate hike as of Friday. Fed is not above (Bullard) jawboning market up with dovish comments. Not specifically a US issue here but the FEd as the sole major central bank with a desire or bias to tighten , it seems, could relieve some stress with a...

Thats amazing. I simply do not know how big money is allocated by large professionals having not worked in this business. One may think that for the last couple years there has been little good in BRIC economies and equities to justify such large allocation. They did not seem like sexy, hot...

Ok i am just looking at a 10 minute frequency chart on finviz and i see two short trades in hindsight. 10:30 AM and at 2:30 PM were breakouts of horizontal support areas. Chop the rest of the time. Maybe only for a few points...i dont know. I would say that breakouts of established horizontal...

R.I.P. Joe Battipaglia . Now THERE was a bull.

Curtis Faith introduced statistics in his book that time based exits performed better than all other the simple TA exits he presented such as double and tripple ma crossovers, BB , Donchian ,ATR breakouts etc. I beleive it was over a test period of 10 years on a basket of commodities and...

Weigh in, if you would, of mis-using percieved fundamentals to totally get the magnitude of price swimgs wrong. I for one am constantly surpprised at the magnitude and Duration of price swings.It seems i expect untradeable noise/variation due to a perceived balance of both fundamental sides of...

And apparantly the Chinese are not done. Further devaluation tonight. Markets responding.

"Hedge fund lost is better than no hedge fund at all" Surf blew up a fund in 2000? Jeez, cmon' , only if someome forgot to lock the office. Get serious.

Feds Lockhard says that he feels a September rate hike is appropriate given the state of the economy. Good movement in 2 year treasuries vs 5,10,20 . Sep and dec eurodollar futures spiked large on the statement but settled at the open price.

Most here seem to be day traders and i can see that common wisdom or better, possibly, an individuals rigorous testing prove that the opening range , intraday is statistically significant. Frankly though, i dont see that the first day, or couple days, of a month are significant. Granted, thats...

I read Brandts book and it comes across as too simple. He must be holding back a lot. He was a commercial hedger for Campbells (the soup folks for one). A grains and soft commodities guy. Boring stuff maybe. Is "blowing up" accepted in that business? That was probably excellent training to...

Real estate is a highly levered investment. Owning physical gold is not. This has got to be considered, right?

Seems what you are saying is that when you can find a trend in the difference between two highy , + correlated assets (2yr and 10yr rates in this case), that the volatility of the net of the two is much less than the volatility of each leg. If I am close to being on target with this...

Gold has got some catching down to do if you view it with the 60 day performance of copper, steel and emerging markets. These things are being taken to the woodshed the last few months and are making new lows. Biggest red bars in gold over the years have been the surprise exchange margin...

There is follow through from the Friday, July 10? , Yellin comments regarding the feds bias to raise rates. EDZ15 put in a top (bottom in rates), at that time and the has come off 10 bp. 2 Year T-notes, lock step, have sold off as well since then. Rates have not risen as much moving oit the...

Approx. 200 trading days ago, UUP/GLD broke range and is up about 25% since then. This spread is about to make new highs. Fiat currencies FXE and FXY presently in QE are trending higher vs. GLD for the last 100 days or so. Gold broke below 1100 yesterday.

You made one the better early calls i have seen here on ET regarding gold. Where is the love?