If it is just 1 major hedge fund, I would be surprised. I know several hedge funds, most of them "minor", that are down over 50% ytd.
Scalpers, shooooooooooooot,...of course there will be your 10 point rallies on the S&Ps, I am talking from a swing trading perspective, moves from...
Haha. Let them eat cake!
Parabolic rally? If you're talking about what happened early last week, that's wishful thinking. <i>Everyone</i> is looking to sell the...
Today there is going to be heavy selling in that sector. It is not too late now. I would not be short on options expiration day however for...
If you don't know the popular hedge fund names, then you obviously are not in tune with game. Let's just say that sector starts with an E. As...
Looking at the action, the hedge funds who have been playing mean reversion strategies like put selling are under a lot of pressure here. Also...
I have yet to see real fear during this downturn, ok, maybe in some of the mortgage lenders and homebuilder stocks, but not in the market itself....
Funny how some of the European and Asian indexes are going down 4-5% and the US index is going down less than 2% a day when the problems are...
We saw a sea change in the market's character that we haven't seen in 5 years. Buying dips is no longer a guarantee to make money, we are in a...
If you believe the inflation numbers pumped out by the government, I got a bridge located in Brooklyn to sell you. Inflation is high, bond yields...
Historical valuations for stocks on a P/E basis. The P/E on the S&P 500 is around 17, even after all this selling the past few weeks. The...
The account insurance up to $150 million for all accounts together is a joke, considering the assets of all the accounts together, which are...
Did you read my above post? I was invested in 98 and the fear is different. Back then, people were really really scared and the market...
A few things: the rise in volatility and denial by hedge funds like GS's GEO, AQM, DE Shaw, Simons fund, etc... A rise in volatility after long...
People have been so conditioned to buy dips that you will have sharp bear rallies where people are gonna say we've seen the bottom, only to see...
No, this one won't end in a big capitulation, it will be more like in '02, where people just got tired of stocks and threw in the towel not in one...
I don't see a '98 scenario because back then the problems were not US related, they were coming from Asia and Russia, which caused the LTCM...
Since 2002, there hasn't been one of these big market down days. It is long overdue, and if it happened this week, it would crush a ton of longs....
TS seems to get a lot of stale quotes on their Level II from past experience. Also, the interest they give you on your cash balance is around...
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