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Large Funds See Withdrawals, Small sub-$1bb Funds Gaining Sticky Money

Try Match.com – One Week Free The article written below was published on Institutional Investor’s Web Site. Here’s a LINK to the original . The past 4 years of my life, the Social Sigma (i.e Standard Deviation) has been positively correlated in both my personal as well as my professional life. To the literal teenie. [...]

Hell Hath No Fury… (Update)

Try Match.com – One Week Free A couple months ago, I wrote about this one trading magazine written and printed in Australia which sends a “this is your last issue warning” with every delivery, but the magazine continues to come regardless.  I mentioned I was curiously attracted to articles about  the late WD Gann for [...]

Global Financial Panic or Major Buying Opportunity in Stocks?

Remember, it’s times like these when fortunes are made. Contrarian traders have to buy when most market participants think their stocks are going to be worthless, and sell when these participants think they’ve missed the boat. Now is the time for the former so get your buy orders ready, and let’s make some money.

Global Macro Themes for the Proprietary Trader

Magazineline.com 30-year Treasury Yields are about to spike along with a dollar rally. I feel this is the catalyst to trigger a sustained pullback in equities, which will reflect our rising unemployment rate and all the stimulus plans that are slowly phasing out. Equity Long/Short Market Neutral traders will have an edge in this market [...]

Macro Signals…

Try Match.com – One Week Free Gold went over $1000 and sustained a rally to $1020. A dip to test, and re-test $1000 is likely. This magical number will continue to be used as the line at which bulls and bears continue to thrash each other relentlessly like a tug-of-war match in an Ultimate Fighting [...]

Bear Markets and Tom Petty

Try Match.com – One Week Free “Cuz I’m free fallin, now I’m free fallin, free falling…..” General market theory suggests sharp sell-off’s need to be on high volume in order to culminate into a tradable bottom, ala the 10/10 and 11/20 lows. However, should the market make new lows on very little volume, as we [...]

Bernard Madoff arrested over alleged $50 billion fraud

Magazineline.com By Edith Honan Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bernard Madoff, a longtime fixture on Wall Street, was arrested and charged on Thursday with allegedly running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, U.S. authorities said. The former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market who remains a member of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc’s nominating committee, is best [...]