apppro

Banking on Banks: Detailed Option Strangle Strategy

These types of trades & trading are actually what is 'STRANGLING' our markets and society as a whole. All this options trading has turned into a ponzi gambling scheme that will crash our system and adds NOTHING now. They say it adds liquidity - BS! If anything all that money being thrown about on ultra short term trades is NOT being invested on long-term basis.. it actually takes money OUT of the pool and contributes NOTHING to our economy - ever.

We need to figure out a way to stop all this insanity and not come up with new methods on how to make it worse. I am still convinced that the best way is to TAX these trades as if they were gambling wins somewhere around 50%. That'll stop it, and even if it doesn't it will help pay for the mess all these trader's/traitor's insanity cause.

Are Financial Stocks Especially Overpriced? Some Protective Ideas

Here's another idea:

Turn off CNBC!

Don't Let the Banks Break You: Hedge Yourself with These 15 Option Strategies

Don't let these guys fool you either. Options may work, but not for 98% of us. Actually we're all suffering this added volitility just so a few option traders can make a couple of extra $.
Stop the insanity! Even as Warren Buffett said the other day:
"Make it simple!"

Stress Tests Confirm: Banking System Was Never Headed Over a Cliff

Econ 101,

A little drastic don't u think? I'm not advocating the overthrow of our entire system, just put back a few regulations and institute some common sense when it comes to stopping "The Shorting of America".
Hey, if you want to go back to the start we might as well go back to the guy who wanted compensation for inventing the wheel.


On May 10 05:03 PM Econ 101 wrote:

> apppro-
> You are on the right track, just dont go back far enough. It starts
> with congress and the community redevleopment act (seekingalpha.com/symbo...).
> The current show is just bread and circuses for the public. With
> a one party political system there is no way out of our plight. We
> must strike at the heart of the monster, the FED. It is at the heart
> of the conspirisy to bring down our Republic.
>
> We are ruled by an oloigarchy of banks led by the Fed. The current
> administration is trying to bring down that oloigarchy and install
> itself as a replacemrent. The people behind the administration are
> former SDS weathermen who have studied Mao for 30 years and are acting
> to CHANGE the republic.
>
> Oloigarchys are most often followed by dictatorships.

Stress Tests Confirm: Banking System Was Never Headed Over a Cliff

Basically what I've been screaming since the summer of '07 when all this started.
But again you missed the point of who and what caused all of this so-called crisis! The story still all goes back to:
1. Shorts lobbied SEC to get rid of Uptick Rule.
2. Shorts Lobbied FASB to institute M2M.
3. Shorts contrived disastor scenarios for the monolines and then the banks that would not or even could not ever happen.
4. AND, we ALL bought into it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pequot Capital: Yet Another Hedge Fund Buying Gold

Really, but who cares!
This kind of trading maybe the latest fashion, and listening to Cramer that long term investing is dead maybe very PC; but I have to admit that:
"I'm Not Smarter Then a Fifth Grader", and I want my markets to reflect that. All this trading, Calls, Puts, CDS's, CDO's, SUV's, CIS's, etc.. etc, are what has made this market a total gamble and not a place to grow America.
We all need to get back to simple basics and stop all this manipulation and gambling with our financial markets.