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yup... This is the one Israel is not going to back away from.. Our enemies are going to use this as an excuse.. at some point.. to get rid of us. Time to really check out global wind patterns for fall out.. Glass being as you are right below Memphis you might be in a bit of trouble.. The winds are westerly so your exposure might.. just might be limited, but I should imagine you will still get some fallout from the bases attacked in Texas. Depending on if the ruskies updated their targeting agenda, I'm in trouble if NO gets hit...
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The pattern I'm seeing is on a monthly chart so it's possible we will see a major dip.. To be honest.. if you look at a monthly or even a yearly chart.. there hasn't really ever been a downtrend in the stock market. I'm predicting the first one.
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Suppose I should really get my Bradley dialed in and ready to go. Dammit, I finally get a job I really like and now it looks like I may get to go play again. Oh well. Oh and the pic of Putin and Bush. It's obvious, Bush is scared to death of the former master-spy that is running Russia. Speaking of Russia, saw an old Russian proverb on the wall in the ready room at my friends unit. To paraphrase it said something to the effect of shake your enemies hand and assure him you are friends and with the other hand be prepared ot stab him in the back. It's not the Russians we need to worry about though, it's the Chinese. They are already operating in South America.
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I can't blame them at all.. I haven't made a trade in a week.. I was long on the buck against the yen last week at 113.92.. sold it a day later when this thing started to really heat up. I haven't any desire to expose myself to the erratic possibilities.
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RD,mise well predict something...At least get people thinking things will not just stumble along forever without consequence.....
Market has a deep uncertain feel to it...Older than most around here, been 'round plenty of money people....I remember how they would take a beating in a realastate deal, and their attitude was head back to the markets to get well. Funny thing? many of them did just that..That easy in those days. There attitude was hit the Bar have a few and then get to work just like a job with a large paycheck to go to..Man those guys were good at it...They wound up millionares..
'Last call to Hawaii to some of the old crowd ?---> "it's not that easy anymore " To much illegal control, to many banks messing with things, and way to much internet to develope a company into a good stock ..From the arrow on are the words of an old trader, who yes, is a millionare.
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quote:Originally posted by Dustoff 1: RD,mise well predict something...At least get people thinking things will not just stumble along forever without consequence.....
Market has a deep uncertain feel to it...Older than most around here, been 'round plenty of money people....I remember how they would take a beating in a realastate deal, and their attitude was head back to the markets to get well. Funny thing? many of them did just that..That easy in those days. There attitude was hit the Bar have a few and then get to work just like a job with a large paycheck to go to..Man those guys were good at it...They wound up millionares..
'Last call to Hawaii to some of the old crowd ?---> "it's not that easy anymore " To much illegal control, to many banks messing with things, and way to much internet to develope a company into a good stock ..From the arrow on are the words of an old trader, who yes, is a millionare.
Precisely the reason I left stocks for currencies. And also precisely the reason I fight for honesty in stocks, still.
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you forgot the hedge funds that have no rules....
cavuto is a pudgy wuss...
WTF does this mean anyway? I sometimes wonder what these men and women who risk so much would think of hotshot investors who get paid so much. Hotshots who run, when heroes stay. Hotshots who get out of Dodge, when the heroes stay to protect Dodge.
lets pay the soldiers?/lets fund the VA properly? no, he's just waving a flag while he whines....
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Nekkid shorting isn't that big a deal.. it happens but for the most part it's just an excuse made by guys like maxy. Blame the other guy.. blame what can't be fixed..
How's about this? Allow shorting of all pennies...
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: sorry, not trying to cut below...
it's an old habit that i got into, editing my spelling and then i think of something else andthen and then and well you know
Oh I know.. I've been watching you do it for years.. you have no idea how many posts I deleted because you completely changed your post after I had my reply written.. LOL
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you mean let the retail players have the same access as the wholesalers?
why not?
the problem i see is that the brokers don't keep good enough track of what they have in-house...
when i say nekkid shorting? i don't mean "evil MM's" like the whiners mean...
i mean these guys (Amtrd Etrd Sctrd) aren't keeping track of the proper number of shares...
i have watched the MM's sell/trade shares that aren't issued yet....
and why is it that big dilution has a runup to get ready for the dump? SMTR was a textbook case last year... i got out when i saw them preparing to issue a few hundred million shares... next thing is ee after i get out? it's running up like mad and on the SHO list.... that and a few other cases is why i don't want to give picks anymore.... none of it seems to make sense unless you say that it's all "fixed" by just a few pwople...
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i played several "problem stocks" last year to TRY to learn what's really going on... BCIT is one... BCIT is a long, complicated, interesting story...
what i think i learned from it is that some brokerages don't even bother to actually buy your stock if you are in a margin account....
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Yeah, the solution is an automated system of some sort.. TA registers such and such number of shares and then that's all there is.. I wouldn't trust the SEC with this of course. But to take some of the pressure off of MM's I think the only answer is to allow us to short pennies.. Think about it.. MM's main gripe is they have to scam us so they can provide liquidity.. Let us provide our own liquidity...
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Fail safes from the broker.. much like I have with forex.. I trade forex with 400:1 margin... do the math.. If I screw up.. I'm done.. unless they have failsafe forced outs.
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supposedlyameritrade allowed their customers to sell several billion share of restricted stock by accident...now? the rumor is a forced buyback... i don't believe it.... but that's what the story is right now....
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Completely different system is needed.. Something automated, where the company is no different than any of us in their offering or their demand. Obviously they would be able to up their supply.. but that supply would be stated, with automated records kept. We need a common hub of exchange... Drop the SEC from the equation. The point is that we take government out of the picture.. Just us and the companies with a common hub of some sort... The nature of the hub? How to keep said hub neutral? beats me as of yet.. but I am certain we'll figure it out... tomorrow. as I have to recede to bed as the child laden wife is now angered beyond a rose's charm. It's all Glass' fault.
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London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat says Israel gave Syria 72 hours to stop Hizbullah’s activity, bring about release of kidnapped IDF troops. ‘Israel will not end military activity until new situation created that will prevent Syria, Iran from using terror organizations to threaten its security,’ newspaper quotes Pentagon official as saying Roee Nahmias
The London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Saturday that “Washington has information according to which Israel gave Damascus 72 hours to stop Hizbullah’s activity along the Lebanon-Israel border and bring about the release the two kidnapped IDF soldiers or it would launch an offensive with disastrous consequences.”
The report said “a senior Pentagon source warned that should the Arab world and international community fail in the efforts to convince Syria to pressure Hizbullah into releasing the soldiers and halt the current escalation Israel may attack targets in the country.”
Al-Hayat quoted the source as saying that “the US cannot rule out the possibility of an Israeli strike in Syria,” this despite the fact that the Bush administration has asked Israel to “refrain from any military activity that may result in civilian casualties.”
'Hizbullah made the same mistake'
The report also mentioned that President George W. Bush has repeatedly put much of the blame for the recent escalation on Syria.
“It is no coincidence that the Hizbullah operation comes at a time when the international community is working to impose sanctions on Iran due to its nuclear program and settle the score with Syria by establishing an international court to try those behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri,” the Pentagon source said.
According to the source, Hizbullah made the same mistake as Hamas when it did not predict the ramifications of its actions and ignored the regional and international changes since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The source said that Israel has indicated that it “will not end its military activity until a new situation is created that will prevent Syria and Iran from using terror organizations, such as Hamas and Hizbullah, to threaten its security.”
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Well, here's the chance to give a little visit to Iran...Maybe fly um in a nice new shiney present.
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