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It increases during the early part and then compresses right down.

"these markets are going to dry up by end of this year and stay in a shitty sideways, bullshit market" 'fraid that's what's coming. Have to make hay while the sun shines. The really annoying part for non daytraders is that as soon as the market starts to follow the line of least resistence it...

10 UK hedge funds are known to have halted redemtions since last sell off. Seem to be CDO or multi strategy.

As the tide goes out liquidity dries up in smaller cap stocks first moving up the scale until only a few large cap index constituents are being manipulated to give a false impression of what is going on under the hood of the indices.

Dammed "shorts" took all his money.

You sound like someone with a huge loss.

3) They are academic buffoons.

1) he is probably looking at some ay to buy the Muni insurance business without the CDO liabilities. 2) My observation is that in this type of situation a supposed solution or investor comes forward but it is rare that it follows through - meanwhile someone has got out of some...

You won't get very far here with that attitude. This is the realm of the know it all teenage daytrader.

We have full blown moral hazard banking.

Governments NEVER admit there is a recession. It just becomes a routine of outright lies to the people.

Not everyone here is a daytrader.

You can make lots of money waiting for empirical facts before you act. This is know as buying the fact/news. This method is particularly effective in saving your portfolio ahead of bad company news and bad economic news. It is the method used by mutual fund managers. Just check on mutual fund...

There will be a blip up in home sales at some point as those that were priced out come in and buy. That will occurr in the range when prices go to an affordable level relative to salaries and at a level wwhere banks are prepared to make a loan and keep it on their books (requires collateral and...

Banks are laying off thousands of people because things are going to get better.........................right?

75BP was to stop the Chimp giving his 'State of the Union" speech on the 28th against a '87 backdrop. Bernanke seems aware that he cannot cut much more but didn't want another thrashing from Wall St for being a bad poodle. He is probably cringing at the thought of another whipping to come if he...

To make huge profits you have to pass on lots of small profits, but with 6 days to go and markets being driven either way by "news" I would take out my equity and let the remainder ride.

The advantage would be that you would not be subject to margin calls (assuming you let thigs get that far). Also if for example buying at a cyclical low if it takes longer to recover than you expected you could pay interest from sales with a reasonable chance you would make it back if you were...

I remember those 1970's Guns & Ammo articles.

I wonder if Market Cap/GDP gives an indication as to whether any artificial support will be able to support the market over the long term. My observation is that even in countries with much smaller market cap/GDP and thius greater Govy wealth/stock market float ratio the Govt/Institutional...