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TBT being a leveraged ETF is likely has a decent sized position in short bond futures - 10 year. But there is an implied ceiling once rates get near zero, right ? In shorting stocks, there is no ceiling.

Sshhhhhh. Don't tell Jack Welsh that ! Jack's great .... just ask him. (All bow down, all bow down.....)

So what I am hearing in this thread: 1) Basically.... Home Depot via "deep pockets" was able to secure a purchasing advantage that enabled them to sell at a lower price than existing small competitors. As they grew, this was transformed into a form of extortion as suppliers risked going out...

No, just following the market, which as we all know, is pretty random. What I like about the TBT long play is that it implicitly has a bottom as interest rates fall to near zero. When equities go into a "risk on" scenario, this guy is likely to rise. The issue is when. There is a decent...

OK, Ok, she's too old for many of you guys, but I've developed this "thing" for her. That being, I did my searching, but I could not determine if she was married or engaged. Anyone know for sure ? I think I saw a ring on her in that latest marketwatch.com video interview.

No one ? No comments ? no criticism ? (always present on this board !)

Very impressive IMHO. Bernie Marcus, Ken Langone, and most of all Arthur Blank. These guys were something....I especially was amazed when I heard Art say "we didn't care about the bottomline at first"....we were just concerned about the customers and associates. Making sure the associates knew...

Careful. Have you considered a European bank failure possibility ? Whew, it's not out of the question and that would make Harry Dent a genius. Guys - these worldwide economies are not really recovering....and that is a requirement to keep these heavily indebted banks in business. Their loan...

Harry Dent says huge bear market coming in 2012....by March, I believe was his time frame for the start. Till then, sideways or even up. Some say one more short covering "melt up" before the 2012 armagheddon. That makes sense....typical "head fake".

SPOKE TOO SOON. TBT near ALL TIME LOWS. Load up on short puts boyz.

The most important aspect of trading is exits. Where are your profits set and more importantly where are your stop losses set ? Not easy, not easy....too tight on the stops = many small losers. Too tight on the profit setters, and you never have a big winner...which is critical. Yeah, I'm in...

Do any versions work with Interactive Brokers real time ? How about the IB Historical data for back testing ? If not, then when ? I believe realtime was promised....like 2 years ago ?

32 or 64 bit ? I've been reluctant to go Win 7/64 bit because I use MS Office a lot....and VBA. If you use API calls in your VBA, you've got a lot of modifications ahead to make it work under 64 bit Win 7. It's a huge pain. Unless you are running a huge set of programs at once, I don't see...

Thanks Mr. Obvious. Why didn't make that call last week ?

That was certainly the case for today's market action. The EURO finally goes down hard. Still, it's nowhere near where everyone said it would be: parity on the USD. I don't think it's gonna happen.

You bet....I keep them on mute most of the day....until somebody really interesting is interviewed. I do like Fast Money however. The gold and oil correlation may have some merit. A slightly risk-on trade might be short gold, long oil. ETF's of GLD/USO. However, I haven't peeked at the ratios...

This will immediately become worthless if the exchanges start charging for Cancels or Cancel and Replace orders.

Savage - great post. Speed requirements in the millisecond range IMHO only make sense for algo's that work in the 1-10 second time-frame. They're most likely taking advantage of the level 2 distribution of bids and asks using a statistical model of probabilities of movements based on...

Everything from a statistical standpoint is LOOSELY correlated i.e. r-squared under 0.5. Use common sense and long term trends. Dow down: could mean a weak economy. weak economy: could mean lower oil demand. Got it ? There are no "definites" in this business. If there were, we'd all be...

At 50+ I developed this problem. I started to take Progene, Tribuplex 750, and Damiana Leaves....and finally, HGH (liquid). This combination really helped...it took about 3 months of taking these pills to see noticable positive effect however.