more quantitative easing - buying of longer term treasury bonds is what is rumored. the real ponzi scheme LOL
Not true. The Romans went to less and less precious metals in their coins as time went by. Their empire ended with horrible devaluing of the...
Unless the average person could work less and still get a living wage, we are all going to be doomed to not adding real value. I mean, all we...
flytiger, fwiw, I think the reinstitution of the trading collars for the index arb bots would have a lot more impact on manipulation of the market...
No, I don't enjoy reading about it and I don't enjoy the us vs. them mentality that is developing. Yes, some of these people are probably...
Do you have an update for us for next week?
Many brokerages allow you to use treasury bills/bonds for collateral. People might not trust their brokerages with their cash. In this case,...
It's all part of the quantitative easing, right? I can't imagine shorting bonds at the moment unless it's a long-term trade. Betting against...
And lumpy. Makes it hard to sleep :D
Look into arb trading programs and the removal of the trading collars for them, too. Basically the bots feed the trend. When they get started,...
ES gets better treatment for taxes (part of your profits are long-term gains no matter how long you hold). 1 ES contract = 500 SPY shares, so you...
This is the real secret behind all the volatility, isn't it?
How long does $15B keep them afloat? It's a lot less than what they were asking for.
The options are extremely expensive, I was looking at using TLT as a close approximation of it (wanted to do the trade in a retirement account I...
Did they have any other tip-offs? It seems the NHNL line's slope might be one. I've been looking at the 2002 bottoms on the charts, the mad...
I usually just put it on standby (it's a laptop). It uses very little power and comes back up a lot faster than rebooting. Occasionally, I've...
How can there be demand destruction for wheat and rice? I could see some for corn since it's been inflated being used for ethanol, but the other...
I'm a proponent of trading what you see. But, that said, why is it that people want to take bad news as "the bottom has been reached." Saying...
I think what he's getting at (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the names on the Dow are switched out from time to time, that Dow companies have...
Nikkei and other Japanese indexes, not streaming, though. http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/CF/FR/MKJ/
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