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  • Analyzing Strange Volume on the NYSE [View article]
    Well, I don't think you've given an example where this huge volume and LONG bias in the shares would be anything but speculation if not manipulation.

    Anyone paying up for the shares would have to have an *offsetting* position in something else , not another LONG, for it to be an arb.

    Someone holding a CDS would not be bidding up AIG hoping that he could then unload the CDS at a profit, cost way too much and way too much risk.

    Yes there are all sorts of bonds, swaps, etc, but this action in AIG does not seem like an arb at all. Of course, I could be wrong, there are an infinite number of possibilities out there, and no one knows them all. Just seems like the least likely explanation for the run up.
    Aug 27 18:02 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Analyzing Strange Volume on the NYSE [View article]
    You say its an arb? Then what instrument are they shorting as they bid up AIG?

    I await an example.
    Aug 27 17:12 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Expected Volatility: 20 Option Straddle Ideas for High Beta Stocks  [View article]
    You tell only part of the story. You must know that not only must the price move , but you have to overcome volatility crush, where the vol drops sharply after earnings.

    In some cases 10% will make you nothing or or very little.
    Jul 23 01:20 am |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
  • The Modified Uptick Rule Debate [View article]
    You'd be surprised at how many supposedly 'sophisticated' traders think the uptick rule is a straw man.

    Wingnuts and shmucks indeed.
    Apr 06 18:05 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Shallowest Generation [View article]
    Nice piece.

    I believe the reason we are in this mess is we do not have leaders that are men.

    That's right, men.

    As in, men with testosterone.

    Men that can say NO to the demands of punks and slackers, and make it stick.

    Bending over doesn't cut it.

    You have to be able to say no, and when they whimper and bleat, and scream, and chant, laugh in their faces.

    Until we have men like that in places of power, we will always be the victims of the greedy.
    Nov 02 23:48 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Barton Biggs and Bob Brinker Are Both Bullish [View article]
    Another goo roo with feet of clay.
    Oct 26 00:12 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Yesterday's Market: Advantage, Bulls [View article]
    The bottom will come when Wall St lined with the vermin that enabled this scam, hanging from the peoples gallows.
    Oct 07 20:44 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Barton Biggs and Bob Brinker Are Both Bullish [View article]
    Tweedledee And Tweedledumb

    Worst calls in history.

    Embarrasing
    Jul 01 13:35 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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