Screwing up? Speculators provide liquidity and often establish price to the other side of the trade to the commercials selling forward....
Whoa, such bitterness. Like a cheap cup of lukewarm java aside a stale doughnut. I'm not a coffee drinker so many of these aspects is...
BTW I'm starting to wonder about Einhorn. Impressive Cornell credentials and compounded performance but.......... He's presently a partial...
Lingo? Eh........the kind of brokerage where customers concern themselves more with the five free trades rather than their fills (amongst a...
Psychologists refer to it as displacement. I must admit I'm guilty of it too. This includes the recurring vision of caps on backwards, empty...
Typically MM's want to keep the public in over the weekend (and wack them gap down Monday morning). Typically the day before a holiday has an...
Not necessarily. Even IF he poof, disappears, would it matter? Feeble rally. MSFT is a great shill. In the S&P 500. In the DJIA 30....
Aren't YOU kinda putting the cart before the horse? IF there's a QE-3 (seeing how the first two haven't "worked"), it would most likely be...
Agreed, it's going down. Look at the volume. Distributed. Capital intense business. Moving product with interest rates at generational lows...
And your point? It would appear Smucker is confident they can pass on input costs and preserve their profit margins. The ability to do it...
Crude oil & VLCCF although correlated, are mutually exclusive. Commodity vs equity. IF memory serves me, VLCCF's fleet is all of (5) aged...
Gold standard was abandoned in August 1971 with Nixon's reneging on the 1944 Bretton Woods. Long before Greenspan. In fact, long before...
Yep, it pierced the 50 day EMA. So? When you use conventional indicators, you get conventional results. Under the bell of a bell curve....
The stock is in a base. Could be for years. Above $5, it's worthy of a position. Above $17, that's the ticket.
Good post, particularly the comment about position size (R multiples). Buffett's game of choice though is bridge.
Actually. I'd suggest your average Joe Sixpack has about $5,000 liquid and some equity in his home (if any). He's thinks he's going to retire.
You're welcome. Perhaps the essence of my point may have been missed. Specialist margin debt isn't dilvulged. Their short activity is...
Margin debt reflects Joe Sixpack 2 to 1 (4 to 1 for a smaller segment). 70% of transaction volume is insitutional . On the surface, unlevered....
Considering the S&P 500 as thee market, and considering SPY as a proxy. dividing the cubes by SPY. yields a relative strength. A synthetic...
Not necessarily. QE-2 is not popular with the population due to inflation (food and gas prices) as the value of their homes dwindling....
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