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Options Trader: Temptation Tuesday

Here's an idea that will work in lieu of Paulson's stupidity;

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Paulson's bailout plan proposes to throw away $700B to bail out bankers and wall-street cronies while creating bigger mis-trust between banks by eliminating mark-to-market-account... and reducing capital reserve ratio to 0. Paulson and Bernanke should be fired immediately for proposing the bail-out plan then trying to ram it down the throat of US public with fear of economic melt down.

As Merrill Reports, Short Squeeze in Financials Continues

noni1, good example of one sided market crashing is China. It is not the shorts who drive the market lower. In the end it is fear and greed that drive the market to irrationality. In irrational market you find opportunity betting on reversion to mean. If that means shorting then that's what it takes.

Options Trader: Which Way Wednesday, Fed Edition

The beauty of commodity bubble is that it keeps core-inflation figure low while forcing consumption high. You gotta hand it to Bernanke; the Princeton guys sure know how to work the numbers!