Too bad we didn't drop a Daisy Cutter on that target-rich funeral procession with all those masked men. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. I do not like green eggs and Ham-as.
Are u saying that we are in fear mode and they are buying? I dont understand... please clarify. Thanks. --MIKE
Otherwise.....As per the title of this thread.....Kinda hard now to remember a time when we weren't "threatened" by al Qaeda. So, really, is this news? Can THIS move the market?
Hamas threatening the United States is an arrogance akin to an ant floating down the river with a hard-on and telling the drawbridge operator to raise the bridge.
Obviously the threat alone wont cause a drop in the markets... but its important to note because they have a major catalyst. If they were going to attack now probably would be as good a time as any. Perhaps they might be more willing to team up with Al Qaida or might try to expedite some type of attack. --MIKE
I certain agree with your opinion on the hedge funds and institutions, their "proprietary trading method" has always been to buy on fear and sell on greed. Yes, Mike. A majority of the hedge funds and institutions (mutual funds, banks, pension funds) more specifically the latter at worst will create market neutral positions to stop the bleeding and take huge profits when the tides have turned. While making markets for a brief time I was taught "you'll always have a buyer and a seller in your pocket if you make the right contacts and get the calls." What do I mean by that? Imagine yourself as an institutional broker for Goldman Schlocks, GSHO. Let's take one of the biggest union-pension funds in the country (your client), The Separated Federation of Teachers (SFT). You get a call from one of the buy side traders within GSHO and he tells you that the desk has been pushed with 250,000 CYSCOL SYSTEMS order to sell at a VWAP of $21.50 and the stock is trading at $22.35. Your client the pension fund is long, so you discreetly use the information to put on a 2,000 call credit hedge for their position which may be 200,000 shares. You take in the premium for the fund, tell the trader you're in, and you buy back the calls when the selling pressure leads up (as indicated by your in-house trader). A chinese wall is supposed to exist between departments within a firm, but it doesen't exist in some of Wall Street's watering holes, where I have seen information like this shared and brokered. To return the favor you may be obligated to convince your pension fund to buy up a losing position that your buddy at the buy side desk has been holding. This is just one example of the way Wall Street has worked for a long time. Traders will protect each other, and they will all protect the big institutions, who have served as "wallpaper" depots, and generate big tickets for the broker-dealer. The realized loss of that trader to the individual retiree is ammortized over the remainder of the teacher's tenure and distributed over the number of teachers. The system is designed and protected to protect the sizeable players who put the volume on the tape. The players pad the politicians who preside over the bureaucracies that were conceived to protect the individual investor. I just trade to try and catch a few of the crumbs from the big pie that moves back and forth.
You're right, ertrader1, the Matrix is very close to reality. Now we just have to figure out what the Matrix is telling the droids to do in the markets... then trade the opposite. Got any more of those red pills? gsr
I'm becoming immune to the threats. There is 1000s of times more risk of getting killed or injured in a common car crash going to the super market than getting hit by 50 terrorist bombers loose in America, so I am not concerned about that letter. However, here is a letter I'd like to send to all Muslim and Islamic based terrorists world wide. Dear Chicken Shits: You don't realize that when you're dealing with the USA you are dealing with a Stupid Government. Just as dumb or dumber than Israel who just sacked that old whackjob Yassin. He looks like he didn't even brush his teeth in years! I feel sorry for his wife. Anyway, all the while you're living in your destitute gopher-filled holes in the ground being horny out of your minds, us fat rich spoiled Americans are balling our brains out and eating pizza, hamburgers and drinking beer. You think we even really GIVE a flying **** about you morons?? Well, we don't! You're nothing but a comedy to us. On our way to our next party, our next drinking binge, or next drug taking session, our next hot sex adventure, we could CARE LESS about what you are or are not gunna do. All us Americans live for today, baby, and we ENJOY life! When death comes we won't even know it - we'll be too busy lookin' good and tradin our asses off. You are the real dumbasses because you actually think there are 70 virgins in heaven for you when you blow yourselves up in your strikes - HA! You're just gunna end up burning forever in Hell - that is all, you religious whackjobs. And, the USA may not be winning but neither are you. Think about it - the majority of the world dissagrees with you and your ****ed up religion. You are going to have to therefore kill HALF the planet to rid yourselves of everyone who irritates you. America will NEVER leave the middle east even if it should because its government is TOO STUPID to see what is best - plus we don't negotiate with terrorists PERIOD <-- that is a good thing and smart Therefore you will have to kill every last American standing because NONE of us take any shit. We DON'T negotiate with chickens! We don't cut deals with spineless, faceless camel turds. All you worthless no class terrorist ****s - you guys can ALL kiss my ass. Signed, The #1 Believer in the American ways of freedom, for which it stands, one nation under GOD, indivisible. Gamal Saham Ruach
When you need something the best is to fabricate them. This is logic no ? And what is logic becomes reality : http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd1101.html This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large? Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense. This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story which was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy underwear ads in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times. There--in an article by military analyst William Arkin, detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the Pentagon--came the revelation of Rumsfeld's plan to create "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" that will "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception." According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, the new organization--the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)"--will carry out secret missions designed to "stimulate reactions" among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to "counterattack" by U.S. forces. In other words--and let's say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld's plan--the United States government is planning to use "cover and deception" and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people. Let's say it again: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the other members of the unelected regime in Washington plan to deliberately foment the murder of innocent people--your family, your friends, your lovers, you--in order to further their geopolitical ambitions.