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As far as I know laws against manipulating the stock market are still on the books. and i havent seen congress pass any laws giving paulson, or any of his cabal of banks and brokers the right to manipulate the stock market. for either financial or otherwise. so the question is can we now sue...

Im relatively new to the commodity game. Im not interested in trading in it. I just like the intereresting stories that come out from that part of the trading world. But do traders in that field always like to play alotta games like cornering one future, and breaking other traders. Or doing...

You don't need them but every major country has them. Japan has a group, england, france, china, and etc. Frankly I would rather have the markets dictating where interests rates should go, but we have the FED right. I wonder how big hedgefunds like sac feels when they are these kinds of...

No I think cnbc guy was referring to the specialists coming off the floor and moving to the desks. It's about time. The floor of the nyse will basically become what the nasdaq floor is like now. with just alot of screens and a few floor traders put on the floor for show.

but then, it falls because everybody is worried about a slowdown. It's hard for us little guys because we dont control the marginal power of the street. And all of us here are little guys compared to the guys who controls 100's of billions of dollars. And who have influence over billions...

hehe it kind of makes you wonder what the plunge protection team is thinking about right. Apparently bernake comfirmed that indeed the group does exist and they do meet infrequently a few times a year. So it makes you wonder, if the groups and the fed goes we want this and this to happen...

I will start a position tommorow before the fed. I want to get a better reading of the market so far.

It is just really wierd that everywhere you go now, everybody is epxecting the markets to drop hard now. You have cramer going, it doesn't matter what the fed saids its going to fall. You have Hulbert saying it's going to fall. You have every hack saying it's going to fall. It has to make you...

This is just an observation but all the talk about the FED not mattering. And now not even what they say matters anymore, that we are going down either way. Is this a classic contra rally forming. Where you have all of this negativity building up. Everybody is now expecting the market to...

If history is proven right again, will trader's and investors make the same mistake on the airline industry again. Almost every decade, the airline industry saids they have changed. All the analysts comes out and saids they have changed. This time is diffrent. They have learned from their...

I was wondering what elite traders think of making dtniqs or esignal's software completely opensource? Allow traders to make changes in the software to fit their trading strategies. But would this cause more problems then it fixes.

well they post it after the fact. They give the heads up to their trading desks and brokers first. Then those guys give it to their best clients or sometimes worsts. And then they are deciminated throught the usual news outlets.

This is probably a very easy question. But how are position limits calculated if a stock has options listed in 2 countries. For example BHP. Is the position limit only apply to the american options only, or both american and australian options.

I would just leave it. I don't think the time involved and the obvious up and downs along the merger path is worth the money. So I would just leave it.

I have always wondered who are the firms on the street that has enought power and respect to use market rules in their favour. Like rules governing obviously bad trades or trades made in error. If you don't include the obvious like the big 4 prime brokers, who are the firms. The reason for my...

I thought vic retired years ago.

well we wont get a bell ringing for the war tobe over. But maybe a relief rally.

it works alot of times. But then you get expiration months where the stock shoots up or down past your straddle break even points. Very risky.

but they are always implicated. And rumours go around. My take is that is this as bad as the iraq war. My conclusion no. And the market should rally. Emphasis on should. But I think we will have a temporary rally either way and then go back to fundamentals. Is it enought to support a...

I was thinking that once the ground war starts, traders would go what else is next? That this is probably as bad as it gets. And they will conclude, this is probably as bad as it gets. And we will get a relief rally at least. Murray what do you think about crude. It seems to have run out...