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1- ES (I already trade it) 2- 30 year T-Bond futures 3- A metal (Gold or Silver) 4- A currency (Probably Yen or Swiss Franc) Under current market conditions this is effectively really all the same trade due to the correlations. Short one and long another is the same trade or a hedge on the...

Thanks to all for responses will take a while to get my head round every point made but what is immediately clear is that I am not paying enough attention to how current peak volatilities can make or break an options spread.

Why are you asking for relief?. According to you there is no recession so stocks are not discounting future events they are acting irrationally - please advise of the stocks you are filling your boots with* due to this incredible buying opportunity created by morons selling stocks because they...

Goerings comment on his capture was "well, at least I lived well for 12 years"

They cut discount rate in August and then cut Fed funds a couple of weeks later if my memory serves me. Interesting that they did nothing for 2 weeks when there was a run on CFC and apparently financial market counterparty payments were breaking down but still out until option expiry. Why not...

You might want to give some thought as to what a 'lagging indicator' might be. Hint: GDP and most figure lag reality, stock market is usually a leading indicator.

The rich who (as always) will use the depression as an opportunity to buy distressed hard assets at firesale prices. They used to be able to get peoples land by lending money and foreclosing in a failed harvest year but with industrialisation they had to devise a new method.

Agree that if they were going to do it it would be Option expiry but Wall St/Hedgies have been given the time/suckers they needed to unwind their longs and go short. Wall St has worked out it can make more money by going short so they now want the market to go down. If you are short you want...

He who controls the mob gets to loot the country on behalf of his clique and the sheeple will not allow any turning back from "debt and [widescreen] cricuses"

I think you can customise SMART so that you can drop Amex as one of the exchanges it routs to. May not be an IB issue with the orders. People seemingly were having problems with Amex secialists pulling stunts.

Not familiar with the ins and outs of options strategies and how behave under different conditions so need to ask here I am long a portfolio of naked puts (i.e have bought puts) with maturities from March to Jan 09 with the bulk around June and confident that long term the direction is down...

I'm going to endure the irritating promotional breaks and start watching CNBC again. seems there is some real side splitting comedy available.

A point made by someone on another board - Baby boomers are at the age where they can't risk capital losses and having experienced or seen what happened in 99-2001 they could liquidate their 401k stocks en masse. Any thoughts

She will have to check which way GS trading desks are positioned before she can come back to you.

FYI people (especially Asian traders) spread rumurs to try and get people to do what they want. Sometimes it gets as far as CNBC and CNN. Last time this rumour caused a Ibounce in HSI. was referring to their rumour not yourv post. Jeez.

Spreading the emergency Fed meeting rumour to prop up the markets obviously isn't working this time.......................................

"central bankers have difficulty preventing asset bubbles " Do they? I would have thought they could prevent bubbles by not loweing interest rates to 1%. Just shows what a senile slimy lizard he is.

Anecdotally it seems they put it in the stock market..................................

Sorry if I am hijacking your thread but it is related............ I am buying an old Dell with an onboard video card which presumably I would need to disable if I were to add a dual port video card. Would appreciate if someone could tell me how to do this or if there is a way to keep the...

Timing is everything. Picked up particularly on the point made by Peter Soros about how most pros would have cut loss on the trade. The smarter you are, the more likely you are to be stopped out by fools before the move - especially when shorting. You also risk being the lonely genius -...