Recent Content by skellington

  1. Mortgage Rates- holy sh@t

    You guys have it all wrong. You WANT to buy when interest rates are HIGH not when they are low. I know this seems counter-intuitive but house...
    Post by: skellington, Oct 29, 2008 in forum: Trading

  2. Buy SKF or not ?

    SKF actually made a pretty good move in the last couple of hours but you shouldn't expect it to track the DOW...since it doesn't. It seems that...
    Post by: skellington, Jul 31, 2008 in forum: Trading

  3. Is this where all the money is coming from?

    What's to stop the banks from rotating the loans indefinitely? They can pay the monthly interest as long as they can put the borrowed money to...
    Post by: skellington, Jul 23, 2008 in forum: Trading

  4. Is this where all the money is coming from?

    You're right and I'm not even new to this topic. I guess even after all the talk I hadn't realized that the give away is already at least a...
    Post by: skellington, Jul 22, 2008 in forum: Trading

  5. Is this where all the money is coming from?

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXgyCIKKp6zQ&refer=home "Banks' borrowing at the rate climbed to a daily average of $13.9...
    Thread by: skellington, Jul 22, 2008, 11 replies, in forum: Trading

  6. Getting Started with Automated Trading

    C++ (and C) are much faster than Java/c#/python/perl/etc. in any significant application. To say otherwise just shows a lack of experience. I've...
    Post by: skellington, Jun 25, 2008 in forum: Automated Trading

  7. Why not switch to AUD?

    Yeah...sounds like solid advice but still you haven't said what the risk is. Except for the currency value going the wrong way (which happens...
    Post by: skellington, Jun 6, 2008 in forum: Trading

  8. Why not switch to AUD?

    That's true, but if IB (for example) through its partner banks suddenly paid 7% on USD and 1% on AUD I could just convert the money back (with the...
    Post by: skellington, Jun 6, 2008 in forum: Trading

  9. Why not switch to AUD?

    Yeah, it's all speculation but isn't that what we do here? :) But as you can tell I don't know enough about currency trading to just throw all...
    Post by: skellington, Jun 6, 2008 in forum: Trading

  10. Why not switch to AUD?

    I agree that some commodities are over priced but I don't think that they are radically overpriced. For example, oil is probably a little...
    Post by: skellington, Jun 6, 2008 in forum: Trading

  11. Why not switch to AUD?

    I'm curious about switching my USD to AUD and was wondering if anyone had any insight into the issue beyond what 'seems' to be obvious. (The...
    Thread by: skellington, Jun 5, 2008, 13 replies, in forum: Trading

  12. Algo traders; How do you describe what you do to friends?

    For friends or chatting with guys 'investor' is plenty unless they want to know more. For women 'racecar driver' or 'brain surgeon' depending...
    Post by: skellington, May 21, 2008 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. Social Security: How can it ever get exhausted??

    Yeah, the Republicans don't even attempt to hide the fact that they work day and night to maintain their power and wealth. The democrats have...
    Post by: skellington, Apr 17, 2008 in forum: Economics