It would be August 4th, 2013. In terms of the economy, I think it will still be showing some lingering effects of the great 99/00 speculative...
American manufacturing companies are having a field day using China as a scapgoat for their woes. On the one hand, they want protectionist...
For those of you in Cali, what do you think of this budget crisis? The state is virtually bankrupt, there's hardly enough money to get through...
Putting Bollinger Bands around the VIX shows a dramatic squeeze in volatility. The bands haven't been this tight in years. The VIX has been...
I'm itching to pull the trigger on some Jan '05 FNM and FRE puts. In a year and a half you could have: Housing bubble pops Derivitive...
Time to liven up a rather dull home trading office. I'm in the process of getting the Crash of '29 original New York Times cover framed, as...
How ironic that we wanted to "seal the border" between Afghanistan and Pakistan during our military campaign there, yet we can't even seal our own...
Now Lawmakers want a "regime change" in Iran. Hmmmm. First there was Al Qaeda. The original bad guys in all of this. Bin Laden's group killed...
With some threads talking about how tough the market is, I'm curious what you guys think would be consider a "world class" return in the market...
The US accuses China of these "serious human rights abuses": "While citing the release of several well-known Chinese dissidents, the report...
She seems pretty freakin tough if you ask me. Not some soft cuddly chick. Sort of a cross between Susie Orman and Janet Reno, lol. Who's the...
"Hip hop", the gangster rap culture, ghetto fabulous,.....there are alot of words to describe this kind of culture. How exactly has it gained so...
I read about this latest survey of young people polled on geography questions. It just astonished me. Dumbfounded might be a better word. 18-24...
Technical analysis is seen somewhere between tarot cards and voodoo according to the academic "theorists". I just can't believe this stuff is...
One of my favorite TA tools are Bollinger Bands. I keep them at the standard, 20 day, 2 standard deviation setting. It's amazing to me, that...
As tragic as the story is, the media doesn't seem to realize that random and ridiculous shootings in this country happen all the time. With...
I almost couldn't believe what I read today. One of the possibilities is to have someone like Gen Tommy Franks lead Iraq in a "transition period"....
Isn't our whole country founded on the system of checks and balances? So one branch of government doesn't go overboard? Now Bush's legal team...
When I first read it, I thought it was a misprint. Isn't the total world GDP around $30-40 trillion? Suing for 3x that amount? I wonder where they...
At what point do high open interest levels at a particular strike keep a lid on prices? Look at the QQQ Aug 24 calls. Almost 200,000 open...
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