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I am using http://www.qmatix.com/XLQ.htm A couple of quirks, but doing its job. I am running big Excel spreadsheets with it with real time data from IQFEED and it's working ok.

Why are you not short right now if you believe there is an excellent chance the Dow will see 8000 tomorrow? Sounds like risk free money to me.

Too bad you didn't post a screenshot of your short positions going into payrolls. Would make your predictions a lot more... interesting.

No more inflation I guess?

Read up on Japan's 1990s. It much more complex than you may think. Apples to oranges.

The Japanese banking system had structural problems in the 80s and 90s that are in no way comparable to the European or US banking system. Japanese rates were taken to 0% but Japanese banks still lost money on outstanding loans because they were unable and unwilling to increase interest rates...

Yes, it's reassuring to know they will still have some 'firepower' left when the mob is out rioting in France and Germany :cool:

Nobody said that.

FDAX 2700, 2003 low! :cool: (even though, isn't the DAX a performance index and includes dividends, unlike the SP500?) Don't forget, it's a bear market!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3097472&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425242,00.html This one? I just googled this.

haha Goldman holding the financial world hostage! Bond: "You expect me to talk, Goldfinger?" Goldfinger: "No, I expect you to die, Mr. Bond"

Buy and hold is dead? That's funny. Buy and hold - in a Buffet sense - means buying a stake in a company and becoming part owner of the business. Fortunes are made (and lost) buying businesses. Not sure how that will ever go away.

That's great news.

http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vCM4wglCjinI.asf Watch Betty finally pull down the curtain on Rogers, at around 10:30 into the video. Betty: "You have said you were shorting treasuries before, have you covered any of those shorts, since they...

Losing sleep over Bloomberg headlines again?

He asked about T-Bills though? Not credit card CDOs? :cool:

* Everbank and 1000s of other banks will be out of business before (or at a minimum very shortly after :cool: ) the day US T-Bills become worthless * Who says the Japanese or other governments are not knee deep in debt?

What makes you think those guys don't have enough diversification? I don't think Ackman, Einhorn etc. would bet 25% of their portfolio on a single idea. The Top 10 (!) long positions of another big value oriented activist fund (Third Point LTD) represent 22% of their assets. The top 3...

See http://dealbreaker.com/images/thumbs/Greenlight%20Capital%20Letter%20%281-Oct-08%29.pdf

"If this is true"? If what is true? The article is saying nothing. No numbers, no new facts.