straddles and strangles have been working pretty good this month, there has been plenty of volatility.
I've seen mechanical stop and reverse strategies advertised for sale. One thing they never show you is what happens when the system is wrong ?...
Of course, it could have all just been short covering. I'm sure there was "panic" short covering, but it was triggered by a massive purchase of...
Beazer homes already cracked, many others to follow. The real estate bubble hasn't popped yet, as people have been buying real estate instead of...
"Because of the size of the order -- 10,000 contracts -- he said floor dealers "panicked" and started covering their own shorts" Somebody...
Don't give Amway any ideas, they are always looking for new business opportunities :)
Just for the record I got my series 7 in 1993.
if they can inspire enough confidence in longs or enough fear in shorts then I guess it works. I just wish I knew when they were going to step in....
I'm just speculating here of course, but it could have a lot to do with just the fact that they are taking chances. If you take enough chances you...
I looked into Don Bright a bit on the bright trading web site and it seems to me that he made a bunch of money as a floor trader and decided he...
well back to the topic......... I think it was platypus that said something like "so there was some special event yesterday that I didn't know...
This is a breed of business that obviously lends itself to playing the averages, and I don't mean just the stock market. The traders churn the...
lundy, Now you are obviously just trying to stir people up. Give it a rest.
I think they did it post 9/11, and on worldcom fraud day also.
This really sounds like a great business. Start a brokerage firm. Then charge your customers $400/month plus commissions! Incredible. When will...
last year I had hopes of a cyclical bear market due simply to a bit too much manufacturing capacity in computer related tech and too much money...
The "plunge protection team" actually does exist, although it is called The Fed Working Group. It was created after the 1987 crash and signed into...
trojans are better than shiek.
I sympathize. And I agree that the bounce today was all about programs and I go one stop further and theorize that the fed working group is behind...
someone made a valid point about a friend being a floor trader and doing well as a scalper. Well, there is hardly any reason to be a floor trader...
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