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    mallarde
    Oct 13 07:11 PM
    Back Room Deal? - Cramer's Mad Money (10/10/08) [view article]
    Give the guy a break. He "changed his mind in a day" after the biggest point swing in the history of the market. Of course, he is going to give different advice after such a big drop.

    Personally, I like his analysis compared to the panels of talking heads that are afraid to take a position on anything and are all trying to sell their picks that they their clients already bought.     Reply
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    User 148123
    Oct 13 04:29 PM
    Back Room Deal? - Cramer's Mad Money (10/10/08) [view article]

    I AGREE..Cramer should be on his wall of shame...Look at
    wachovia..










    cramer is such an egomamiac that he bought into the lies Wachovia told him.....OH yEAH REMEMBER REVCO???     Reply
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    scholar
    Oct 13 08:55 AM
    Back Room Deal? - Cramer's Mad Money (10/10/08) [view article]
    i ewas a new investor and i also was on the mad moneys are you diversfied and took all the cramer advice all the stocks went down after i bought them i would panick i dont know who these people are calling in making big money he would refer to a stock he recomended in 1996 and be damm proud of himself in the end i got wiped out on wachovia one day steel on the wall of shame the next day steel is superman getin get out buy this no sell that if your anew guy like me just watch for the fun but get real help get in get out want to buy some nat gas stocks 2008 is the year of nat gas ha ha Reply
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    libertarians
    obsister
    Oct 13 07:51 AM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    this stuff won't stop until Treasury has a stake in even the solid banks and the traders have enough to clear out to dubai off of transaction fees from fear filled clients being told to dump all stock and keep the cash in mattresses.....
    sheesh, people think O wants to socialize. dudes, were are now socialized.....
    Go, Barr!!!!!     Reply
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    constructe
    Oct 13 12:10 AM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    I like your assumption. Only program trading can have such a high correlation. I assume it was covering of SPoos bets in fear something weird may happeb over the weekend. And it did, the SEC issued orders that banks can declare any value they want to to illiquid paper. That means you get 100% no transparency again. When the market is looking for trust, they shovel us black boxes that you can't open until Christmas 2039. Hopefully, by that time we will be out of the muck they made. Reply
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    Extremebrick
    nmortar
    Oct 12 11:58 PM
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    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    I watched the market and as many tickers on as many as I could and came to several conclusions. There was massive selling and liquidation going on as the session began, likely a combination of margin call induced selling, hedge fund redemptions (the biggest contributor to the selloff) and some retails capitulating. About 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. the selling pressure seemed to have run it's course and the buying that came into the market seemed to be from two sources, investors and insti's with dry powder buying the exhausted dip and, IMO, most importantly, SHORTS COVERING TO LOCK IN GAINS. It was no "short squeeze" but rather shorts seeing that a pivot point low shelf had been attained, was confirmed by reduced sell side volume and they moved to BUY TO COVER, BTC. Simple profiteering. Calm execution of closing out a good "short" run with momentum on their side, of which was waining. Money was being made, while others lost, or were forced to book their losses.
    Things were too orderly and calm in the afternoon. Trading was orderly once the late afternoon buying came in, the tide turned as selling volume abated and it was time to close out short positions. The gains seemed to gain momentum as no doubt cash on the sidelines bottom fished the miseries left behind by those exiting.
    This only poses several new key questions. IF, I am correct, then the "safety net upward bias" short covering provides MAY NOW BE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED, offering little to no downside protection which begs the next question: That "low shelf" that had been attained and seemed to be washed out, asks do we now set the markets up for another downleg as earnings are revised downward as recessionary factors come into play globally ?
    Central banks are throwing virtually everything they have to halt this slide into the morasse. Will it be enough to reboot they credit pumps and generate a continuing business climate, or will this be looked upon as just another rally to make a quick buck or one of the last opportunities to exit?
    Traders love the volatility if that is their business, but John and Jane Doe have little time to watch markets and streamers or continue reading the negative monthly statements that have become the norm as they watch their life's savings vehicles depreciate at an unsustainable rate. hgc     Reply
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    MarketLost
    Oct 12 11:52 PM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    Gina said "smells like a double shot of PPT working with instant monopoly money "

    Hmm, two replies here, and both mention the PPT. Do you believe in aliens, too?     Reply
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    DavidB
    Oct 12 10:53 PM
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    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    The action looks like someone was trying clean up skeletons to me. Maybe we'll find out next week when those skeletons finally fall out of the closet with an institution still chained to them for all to see but something big was moving around possibly in a death rattle(elephants don't move fast in the jungle without shaking the trees and in trading, volume is the trees and institutions are the elephants). Either that or the government working group was trying to spark a rally and prevent margin calls next week.

    We also have earnings beginning next week and big money may well have wanted to get positioned for it     Reply
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    Lawrence
    Brotman
    Oct 12 09:19 PM
    Back Room Deal? - Cramer's Mad Money (10/10/08) [view article]
    I like Cramer for what he is: TV entertainment coupled with his own opinions of the market. He is one man, and one man with one man's opinion of the huge multitrillion dollar US stock market. No one person can predict the future behavior of the stock market. I take his opinions with a grain of salt. I read, and form my own opinions independently. Cramer should not be blamed for the downdraft of the market. He does come up with occasional good stocks and good calls, but again, his opinions represent those from one man, and one person. He is entitled to his opinions. After all, isn’t this the United States of America?

    Cramer and others have talked about the housing crisis which we are embroiled with in our economy. Housing prices continue to drop, and this explains why people have less cash to borrow and less cash to spend. There is a huge trickle-down phenomenon which relates to home values and the amount of the mortgages out there that are in question. The housing market is in trouble and will remain that way until credit is restored and until there is more confidence in the US economy. This will take time. It is plainly evident, based on prior recoveries that this crisis will come to an end, hopefully sooner rather than later.

    If the government starts a large infrastructure rebuilding program, fixing up our nation's streets, water supplies, highways, bridges, electrical grids, etc., the resulting employment will spill over into the housing market, and we will see a recovery. A new leader in the White House will help to restore confidence by insisting that corporations act in a prudent manner, so as not to stress the credit market in the future. Corporate greed resulted in this debacle in the stock market. There were money managers who risked their client’s assets by investing in Lehman Bros. paper, knowing full well that Lehman was in trouble. Countrywide Financial did our county a big disservice by selling mortgages to people who were not capable of paying back this debt. I’m sure the other big investment banks have done things which have threatened the vitality of the credit market. Congress should intervene in some tangible fashion so as to reestablish our economic reputation in the world.

    We have to bring this terribly expensive Iraq war to a rapid end. We are squandering $10B a month there, while the Iraqis pile up more than $80B in savings from their oil revenue. We are spending too much for foreign imported Arab oil. We need a new energy policy which will bring us closer to energy independence. We cannot continue to spend and borrow like this forever. The governments of the world at some point will stop loaning us money for fighting and consuming.

    Health care costs have to be controlled in the near future. Our corporations cannot continue to afford these elevated costs. GM with Ford have a combined market cap that is about 10% of Toyota’s. Let’s wake up before it’s too late.

    Lawrence D. Brotman
    Fort Worth, Tx.

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    SmartStops
    Oct 12 09:13 PM
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    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    With $3Trillion running through the hedge fund industry these days, who's looking out for the little guy? Who's teaching investors that they should ALWAYS have a Protective Exit Strategy in place from the start like the big boys do? That Buy&Hold is the riskiest strategy around?

    Protect yourself with an intelligent exit strategy at all times. One that will continually adjust itself to a stock's behavior and overall market conditions.     Reply
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    Crudeman
    Oct 12 07:35 PM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    Personally, as a chartist, a huge head & shoulders top objective was met at 7900 hence the dramatic 1400 pt round trip in the first half hour. Obviously it was mostly short covering as it then settled back to trade sideways until the spike at 2 pm. Having said that, wouldn't it have been nice if Ben and Hank had included Lehman's in all their schemes last week and all these money raising shenanigans might have saved a couple of trillion in equity holdings... Reply
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    vodop09798
    Oct 12 05:43 PM
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    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    I don't know about all this technical talk you experts are putting out, but I do know that NCC still has 21.77 short interest (absurd) and only(?) 33% instutitional holdings. Looks to me like there are a lot of individual shorts out there still hoping for an NCC collapse. Whats going to happen to you poor folks if they get bought for $5 - 8 - 10? Going to be a lot of scrambling to cover, I reckon. I hope you all lose your retirement, like I have. Reply
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    Stevie
    Oct 12 03:56 PM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    Rationality has been elbowed out by raw emotion and unbridled fear. Mix in an almost universal distrust of the current capital markets regulatory architecture and you have a perfect storm. Just wait until Americans get their 401K statements, and we'll will see how enthusiastic they are to 'dollar cost average' and 'buy the lows' as the CNBC cheerleaders encourage. Not so long ago only a small percentage of Americans invested in the stock market, it would not be surprising if a large numbers of investors elect to invest elsewhere. Notice the brisk sales of SAFES. Ah, the subtle manipulation of the masses. As ever, bad money chases out good. Reply
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    CLH
    Oct 12 02:31 PM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    Very important but not talked about is the fact after a huge sell off like last week (done during a panic) there are few sellers left. Many of the sellers already know that they sold at the bottom and want back in. When sellers are gone the buyers will cause the stocks to soar and it could snowball into a huge rally. But dont forget this may not be the bottom but only a huge rally.. Reply
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    davesilb
    Oct 12 01:07 PM
    Was Friday's Rally Just a Hedge Fund Short Squeeze? [view article]
    The hedge funds do not need money to short stocks!!!! It does not take money to short, it only takes money to cover short positions if the price goes up. So the Hedges could be doing what writer thinks is possible. Reply
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