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This is Asian decoupling?

Yes it seems I meant first and third.

Good point Bogan San

Strangely enough, his first two books are worth reading.

Kiwi? Bogan? Nah sound like they are from Japan

One important fact is that all I am hearing from Joe 401k is "I have to just hang in there as if I sell I will lose too much" We are stuck in a zone where the public has losses that are too big to take so won't sell, but we have not yet reached the point where they will sell at an even bigger...

"well behaved and has nice moves" - something must have changed :D, all I remember is people taking advantage of the thinness with games like 3 tick trick (actually a good way of spotting a potential for reversal on a choppy day). It does have definite times for moves though.

No shorts, no buyers of last recourse, so STRAIGHT DOWN This is exactly why shorts (esecially fresh shorts with no profit cushion) are targeted by big longs looking for liquidty to get out with are targetting with their gunning of stocks on "news".

"You need to be in usa AND international stocks. It is good if you can be long and short somewhat, to blunt the effect of sudden news events and currency movement It is good to trade different instruments - commodities, stocks, forex, options, etc. You never know which is going to get...

This is all part of the campaign to deflect the blame away from the real culprits. Shorts will be blamed when in fact all they did was their homework.

The market is completely unpredictable and "news" and event driven in that timeframe and this can override natural market dynamics that can be redicted to an extent e.g. if heavily sold it sets up for a snapback through supply and demand dynamics. BSC was heavily sold.............. About the...

What's really needed is strippers.

You know, I can't help but feel this just another retail concept that is past its sell by date - McDonalds was the Starbucks of the seventies/eighties and then lost direction as Starbucks have recently admitted to. Starbucks selling energy drinks is like McDonalds selling Pizzas, which it tried...

All of which will only be heard in closed door hearings. Just another of the things that "can't be discussed" in front of the American people.

Ritholz gas a god point on this deal as a deal contested by other IB or shareholders rather than by Bondholders: http://seekingalpha.com/article/69204-why-is-bear-stearns-stock-rallying "So as mad as the accumulation appears, it's actually quite rational -- IF YOU ARE A MAJOR BOND...

US discovers it has already been taken over by China.

The Tooth Fairy is going to give back all the teeth she has collected over the millenia and demand her sixpences back! You can't be too careful. Well of course it was a Repo, they told you it was permanent because you were only five years old.

...............assumong the decline is not big enough for commodities margining to wipe out their equity - even on the less than exchange margin that HF's use - remember many commoddities, even copper and gold are VERY thin when everyone wants out together

I was referring to the internet boom has history has yet to judge PE and HF's. I also think it will appply to the concept of commodities and China will grow to the sky, just like the internet was going to. Disclosure: I am short BX .:D

Yes, the way they can structure is that unleveraged equities are collateral for leveraged positions which are unwound first - equiteis falling will of course will accelerate that.