The answer is “it depends”. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o> </o> It probably wouldn’t mean a hill of beans to the currency markets if the DJIA dropped to zero. The lion’s share of any countries ...

World stock markets, Forex, and a crash?

The Holy Grail system is one in which any mindless idiot can click a few buttons and become a millionaire in short order. From day one, you have been told by those in the know that it does not exist. Straddled news trading may seem like the Holy ...

News trading = Promised land?

They don't NEED TO WANT anything. Your quite willing and able to work your ass off (and recommend that everyone else do so as well) so that they don't have to worry about starving. Stop paying them to do nothing and I guarantee they will find the ...

Feelings about CPI

It's been my contention for a long time that the poor are that way for a reason. I'm sorry, but it is rediculous how easy it is to make money in this world if one puts the effort into doing so. Even the Starvin' Marvin Ethopians or whatever in ...

Feelings about CPI

So I guess we should all just kill ourselves now...

Grains & Agricultural Futures

In 1945 the ENIAC computer cost $500,000 to produce. The inflation adjusted cost in 1990 dollars was ~$3.5 million. By 1990, computers many orders of magnatude more powerful were available on retail shelves for $1-1.5K. Now I'm not advocating that ...

Grains & Agricultural Futures

Maybe you should clarify what you consider "long term". Does that mean your going to buy something and sit on it for the next 40 years regardless what happens? The stock "market" may outperform bonds in that period, but in 40 years, less then 1/10th ...

Grains & Agricultural Futures

http://www.manfutures.com/ Is a megacap futures brokerage firm I used via tradestation. You can trade pretty much any futures contract in existance with them. "Investing" in futures is sort of a fools game though. All futures contracts have ...

Grains & Agricultural Futures

I have had my oanda platform open 24/6 without any problems for the last month with zero outage. The game platform is a mess, but the live is flawless...

Broker's Connections down...

I laugh every time I hear someone compare the USD to the Peso or the Ruble. Comments such as are made show the navity most americans possess regarding the structural efficiency of their own economy. I suppose the idea that by pricing ones debt in a ...

When will the dollar strengthen?

In all seriousness, what excuse is left for the dollar bears to rally around? The Fed is done, the Yuan is appreciating, the BOJ is raising rates, and yet the dollar is higher now then prior to all these events. Is the current account really THAT ...

When will the dollar strengthen?

Tomorrow. Because it was down today. How much strength are you looking for exactly?

When will the dollar strengthen?

Please be sure to update us on your progress over the next six months.

Beginners have faith! fast progress is possible

All valid points, but I fail to see how an assessment regarding FOMC biases can be infered without knowing who's back warrants scratching. It could very well be that Bernanke or a number of the governors could be indebted to the Democrats and future ...

FOMC trade

I am not and will not dispute the impact of monetary policy decisions on elections with you. We are in complete agreement on that. The discussion was regarding what effect election year politics has on monetary policy and it was in that vein that my ...

FOMC trade

I read this book on the history of risk a few months ago and one of its chapters was on game theory. One of the examples they gave to explain the theory used Congress and the FOMC to highlight how opposing participants make choices based on their ...

FOMC trade

What makes you think the FOMC gives a crap who comes out on top in the next election?

FOMC trade

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NFP Results....

Well they were going great until today. I had a nice hedged option play on for NFP that blew up when my stop was taken out and the option missed by 0.8 pips. Some nonsense with spreads and median prices. Erased all my profit for the week. Ohh ...

Millionaires

OK, my bad. The conversational nuances that fail to come across in text caught me out. Sorry if I sounded cynical.

Millionaires