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Say hello to 7450.. again... yawn.

Thanks for the heads up. Sounds like a 100% risk free bet. I will short 50,000 @ 18.90. I love free money.

I love IB. I trade stocks, forex, stock index and commodity futures, stock options and futures options. I trade US, Canadian and UK stocks. I have the security login device. While it's a hassle to enter an additional code when logging in, it works well and I never had problems. With this...

Uhm.. Okay, I guess there is a lot of misinformation out there about the function of fixed income markets and their role in our economy. Good luck trading everybody.

And Americans also get their weekly paychecks from the companies that can't get their commercial paper placed in the bond markets. Will those Americans care if their jobs are lost due to a credit crisis? But I guess arguments don't count here with our resident ET bears. Let's all chime in...

LOL Still telling all this mumbo jumbo to yourself?

Wall Street is not just stocks. What about fixed income markets?

lol and an equal amount of millionaires were squeezed back into social security in the hysteric high volume short covering rallies that we saw during the same time period

Just wear your tinfoil hat, it's the best way to express this view

DAX looks and feels like somebody sold boatloads of vola until next Friday and needs to keep it at 7450. What a snoozefest.

In the minds of paranoid tin-foil hat wearing perma bears.

My predictions for the next 18 months 1. SP500 will goto 0 2. Gold will goto $2500 per ounce 3. Oil will goto $250 per barrel 4. 10y treasuries yield headed to 10% I'm short all major equity indexes and with the rest of my kid's college savings I bought physical gold and buried it in...

I'm sorry to say that, but the matter of the fact is that Hef is a nobody in the business world. His company - through the high hopes of creating an international media company in the late 90s - is largely a failure. His attempts to create reality TV shows depicting his life with his...

Just go this through my broker alert popup: To CME,ECBOT,GLOBEX,NYMEX traders: Tue Sep 11 04:40:02 2007 EST The CME Group and NYMEX will be remembering the victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. CME Group (on both CME Globex and eCBOT platforms)...

No, from what I understand they were/are a leveraged quantitative multi-factor based equity relative value fund, i.e. long/short different equities, probably modeled to be beta + market neutral. If suddenly your shorts go up and longs go down and you're leveraged 3x or more then it quickly can...

UPDATE -Tykhe quant fund hasn't recovered Aug losses By Dane Hamilton NEW YORK, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Tykhe Capital LLC, a quantitative hedge fund named for the Greek god of fortune, has yet to recover after last month's market rout, unlike other computer-driven investment funds that have...

Tell me, please, oh smart marketsurfer... how would guys like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, who are bound by law to make their holdings public by reporting to the SEC, hide from the Forbes 100 list? Does the fact that they're included in Forbes mean they're less humble billionaires?

Here's the follow up. Looks like HFRI is around 6-6.5% YTD as of right now, contrary to popular opinion: ----------- Hedge fund losses thinly spread By James Mackintosh Published: September 10 2007 17:59 | Last updated: September 10 2007 18:06 Early results from hedge fund index...

Amazing intraday turnaround in CL today. Too many leaning on the short side, I am not sure? This week will be interesting for energy futures it seems...

Oh boy, I'm so happy all of a sudden my short stop was hit in the OCT contract :p