Envisage the following scenario - someone looks at US foreign policy in the last decade and concludes that tens of thousands of innocent people...
The Yuan has risen from 8.27 to 6.83 against the dollar since it floated - an appreciation of 17%. How is that a "weak yuan"? You're also...
By logical extension, this means that if the dollar totally collapsed to worthlessness, this would be great for exporters. It would also make the...
No - if the thesis were correct, then a situation where the Euro went up to a rate of $1 trillion dollars to 1 Euro would mean that the Eurozone...
Is that because he forecasts all 3 and then takes credit for whichever of the three scenarios actually plays out? "The US dollar is going to...
This whole thread is now moot: http://seekingalpha.com/article/170063-marc-faber-dollar-due-for-rebound-emerging-markets-worth-considering...
After reading his comments, I emailed Marc Faber offering to take the other side of $/⬠forwards for 2020, at a price of 10 dollars per euro. As...
The way to answer this question is the way to approach any question - look at as much evidence across as much history and geography as possible,...
I fit the INTP, ADD (aka FPA - focus prioritisation advantage), davinci and pattern recognition parts but don't have the other stuff. After...
For those who are interested in the potential for futures scalping, here are my stats from my futures scalping for 2009 so far, I've rounded down...
My point is your P&L will improve a lot if you avoid the 7 things I mentioned as detracting from trading, and focus on the 2 that help trading....
Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant surfing the net. I agree the connectivity and improvement to trading access, news etc is very useful. TV is useful...
Market Wizards Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Alchemy of Finance Inside the house of money was also good, along with Market Wizards II and...
Well, I am glad you find it useful, but personally I find other ways to be better for gaining insight into peoples thoughts and natures. I would...
This is the main reason why I stopped using ET. I have come back to post this, in the hope that I can make a few people see the light and improve...
Here are some things that many traders, and I bet most people on ET, spend a lot of time on: 1. Trading message boards on the internet 2....
Lol. I just realized spending more than a trivial amount of time on message boards (and the internet in general) is a bad idea. Come to think of...
...I would be too busy having fun with the best music, blow and sluts to give two figs about the stupidities of such trivial non-entities as...
A sceptic can never be certain about the existence of anything, so under your definition there would be basically no atheists in the world, and...
Simple question: if Buffett had *bought* $5 bill of puts when vol was 14% and the S&P was above 1500, just before the index collapsed to 666 in 18...
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