Contributing Editors' Blog Entries
Weekly Contrarian COT Index and Retail Positioning Analysis
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 10/17/2010 - 15:04 Commitment of Traders Commodity Futures Trading Commission Market Sentiment Smart Money The Commitment of Traders Report is created by the CFTC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is published weekly every Friday. This body gathers and publishes the open futures positions on all publicly traded US futures contracts as well as the corresponding options. The data consists of 3 main categories.- Comments: 1
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On FX
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 10/17/2010 - 13:33 Aussie China International Monetary Fund Japan Mark To Market Market Sentiment Price Action Purchasing Power Volatility Yen Not my best week....- Comments: 42
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The Markets Develop a Caffeine Habit
Submitted by madhedgefundtrader on 10/17/2010 - 03:31 Exchange Traded Fund Weather in primary producer, Latin America, has been poor. US coffee stockpiles are now at 10 year lows. Major producer Vietnam is threatening to cease exports and start hoarding, as Russia has already done with wheat. Although prices are now at 13 year highs, we may get even more of a jolt out of this trade.- Comments: 16
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Have You Looked at Angelo Mozilo's Facebook Page lately?
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 10/17/2010 - 00:07 Angelo Mozilo BAC Bank of America Bank of America Capital Markets Countrywide CRAP Fat Cats goldman sachs Goldman Sachs Lehman Merrill Morgan Stanley Wells Fargo I don't mean to sound cynical (which I am), but has anyone in the media bothered to ask: why did the SEC decide to settle with Mozilo this week?- Comments: 174
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Inside the Flash Crash Report
Submitted by ilene on 10/16/2010 - 22:16 Citigroup Commodity Futures Trading Commission Counterparties dark pools Dark Pools Futures market goldman sachs Goldman Sachs headlines High Frequency Trading High Frequency Trading Market Manipulation Market Share Mary Schapiro Meltdown Merrill Merrill Lynch Morgan Stanley New York Stock Exchange New York Times None Real estate Securities and Exchange Commission Subprime Mortgages Testimony Transparency Wall Street Journal Let me state this another way: two trading firms were predominantly involved in handing investors’ losses of 60 per cent or more in their stocks on May 6 but a staid old mutual fund company trading an S&P futures contract in Chicago has been fingered as the culprit of the Flash Crash.- Comments: 27
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Are ALL Mortgage Backed Securities a Scam?
Submitted by George Washington on 10/16/2010 - 17:38 Bond Cohen default Fannie Mae Felix Salmon Freddie Mac Institutional Investors Janet Tavakoli Mortgage Backed Securities Mortgage Loans None ratings Ratings Agencies A financial insider makes a big claim ...- Comments: 101
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Is Canada on the Right Pension Track?
Submitted by Leo Kolivakis on 10/16/2010 - 15:39 fixed Netherlands Nortel Reality According to a new survey, more than three-quarters of Canadians support increasing Canada Pension Plan benefits. Is Canada on the right track?- Comments: 17
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Getting Something For Nothing
Submitted by madhedgefundtrader on 10/16/2010 - 13:06 Japan All the gasoline I want at 24 cents a gallon. That is the de facto price that PG&E is billing me for a full charge on the all-electric Nissan Leaf. Thumbing my nose at OPEC. The new electric cars will be total game changers.- Comments: 108
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Question to Readers On Mods
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 10/16/2010 - 09:03 Florida I would love to know the answer to this one. A little help?- Comments: 123
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Market Liquidity Makes All the Difference
Submitted by foltarsh on 10/15/2010 - 23:59 Trading Strategies Volatility Volatility is King in the Cotton Market where the market trades Limit Up and Limit Down More Frequently than Interest Rates are Lowered.- Comments: 1
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Foreclosuregate: Time to Break Up the Too-Big-to-Fail Banks?
Submitted by ilene on 10/15/2010 - 22:56 Alan Grayson Bank Failures Bank of America Bank of America Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke Comptroller of the Currency Credit Rating Agencies credit union Creditors default Foreclosures GMAC Grayson Jon Stewart Karl Denninger Mary Schapiro Mortgage Backed Securities National Credit Union Administration Rating Agencies ratings Ratings Agencies Real estate Securities and Exchange Commission TARP Timothy Geithner White House Looming losses from the mortgage scandal dubbed “foreclosuregate” may qualify as the sort of systemic risk that, under the new financial reform bill, warrants the breakup of the too-big-to-fail banks. The Kanjorski amendment allows federal regulators to pre-emptively break up large financial institutions that—for any reason—pose a threat to U.S. financial or economic stability.- Comments: 41
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4closureFraud Needs Your Help - IRS Form 938 – I Have No Idea If This Is Important But It Sure is Curious
Submitted by 4closureFraud on 10/15/2010 - 22:17 ETC Financial Accounting Standards Board Foreclosures Wachovia WaMu In 1931 Capone was indicted for income tax evasion. Attempting to bribe and intimidate the potential jurors, his plan was discovered by Ness's men. Following a long trial, he was found guilty on income tax evasion. In Alcatraz, where tight security and an uncompromising warden ensured that Capone had no contact with the outside world, Capone's control and interests within organized crime diminished rapidly...- Comments: 62
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Mercer Quits US Public DB Investment Consulting
Submitted by Leo Kolivakis on 10/15/2010 - 21:37 Fund of Funds Managing Money Risk Management Transparency Looks like Mercer's little Alaska problem had a big impact on its US DB investment consulting business...- Comments: 8
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10/15/10 Midevening report: QE2 is coming! QE2 is coming! And inflation won't shoot (up) until it sees the weights of the Fed buys
Submitted by MoneyMcbags on 10/15/2010 - 18:24 Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke Consumer Sentiment GOOG Google Hyperinflation Monetary Policy Unemployment Aww yeah, QE2 is finally on the way in news less surprising than learning another politician is a hypocrite, banks may have forged documents and been untruthful about disclosures, and Bar Refaeli is hot. QE2 became official when Ben Bernanke got in front of a room of top economists at their annual coven and clam bake in Boston (where Money McBags hears both the incantations and the soup were delicious)...- Comments: 11
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Krugman: "The Question Is Whether Our Economy Is Governed By Any Kind Of Rule Of Law"
Submitted by George Washington on 10/15/2010 - 17:26 Ben Bernanke Capital Formation CRAP Fail fixed Foreclosures James Galbraith Krugman Obama Administration Too Big To Fail Wall Street Journal Krugman weighs in on the side of the rule of law in the mortgage crisis- Comments: 136
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