Become the Successful Trader You Always Wanted toBecome the Successful Trader You Always Wanted toShadowtraders blog is an excellent commentary on the Futures Market, Trading Online, where the Stock Market is going, the Sub-Prime issue. It is written by seasoned veterans who have traded on the floor of the CBOT. 
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Overpriced stocks
2008-03-19 20:07:00 The earnings of the S&P500 are in a four-month downtrend, and at $71 are as low as they were in the middle of 2006. Stocks are already grossly overpriced, noting that the price-to-earnings multiple of the Dow Jones Industrial index was an astounding 50 last week. The S&P500 had a P/E of 18. These are the ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Bernanke takes another bong hit
2008-03-19 19:22:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders to achieve greater production and income. Wait for the Fed, and all you’ll get is bigger inflation. “…Much like the children of the 1960s discovered with their particular paths to ecstasy, you probably can’t achieve your state of bliss in this fashion all that many times. Fed head Ben Bernanke probably ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Mum?s the word on Lehman
2008-03-18 20:09:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders to get ahead. “…It is understood the New York Fed contacted key executives at a number of leading banks, including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, to discuss Lehman’s situation over the weekend. By yesterday morning, the banks’ prime brokerage departments - which service hedge fund clients - were under strict instructions ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Word , Podcast
Carlyle Capital to be wound up
2008-03-18 18:37:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders to make money, not give it away to a lot of hype and debt. “…Carlyle Capital Corporation is to be wound up after the $22bn Amsterdam-listed mortgage fund said its shareholders had approved an application for a court appointed liquidator to sell its remaining assets. The move sounds the death knell for ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Wall St braces for more big write-downs
2008-03-17 21:15:00 Full story here. The rollercoaster ride is just getting started. Get ready to see a lot of people tossing their cookies on this one. Use ShadowTraders to make your money, don’t trust a bunch of Wall St. brokers since they’re “broke-er” than you. “Wall Street investment banks are poised for further pain from loans to private ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Write , Podcast
Was Bear Stearns sold for negative price?
2008-03-17 19:59:00 Article here. Looks like the fire sale was even better than $2/share… “So JP Morgan Chase is buying Bear Stearns, for what everybody’s reporting to be somewhere in the $230-$250 million range. That’s significantly less than Bear Stearns’ newish headquarters building at 383 Madison Ave.–a few blocks from JP Morgan Chase’s HQ–would fetch. Estimates Bloomberg: The 1.2 million-square-foot, ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Price , Negative
Trust down the drain
2008-03-17 18:32:00 Full story here. “Conversation from 10 years ago: relating to John Meriwether of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) calling his friend at Bear Stearns: Bear Stearns - How much are you down by, John? John - Half. Bear Stearns - You are finished. John - But I have billions in cash, more fund raising to come, etc. Bear Stearns - John, ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Trust
Bush to meet PPT on Monday (3/17)
2008-03-16 13:50:00 Full story here. Maybe W’s looking for the luck of the Irish? Bit of stacking the deck though. We’ll see if it’s enough to keep things up. Stay tuned to ShadowTraders market commentary and don’t get caught short (one way or the other) when the big boys hit the pool. “…President George W. Bush plans to ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Meet
Who will put Humpty Dumpty back together again?
2008-03-14 21:30:00 Last week was almost an upweek. Tuesday’s 417 point rise, a re-bound on Thursday from 200 points down to close positive. Standard and Poor’s statement that the end in the subprime credit crunch is near. The Market holding above its 52 week low of 11870. But then Bear Stearns struck on Friday morning at 10:00am. The ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Back
Forget Spitzer, Fire Bernanke
2008-03-14 20:24:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders, don’t leave yourself in the hands of the lunatics running the asylum. “…Brokers hold billions of dollars in the very securities that are suddenly eligible for refinancing with the Fed, such as mortgages and other securities that have proven well nigh impossible to sell to investors for the past few months. ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Fire , Spitzer
Russian Mafia in bed with Wall Street?
2008-03-14 18:56:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders to get in, get your money, get out. Make your money, keep your money. “…Every day, thousands of Americans look to invest their money in stocks, and many of them go through brokers and traders to simplify the process. Unfortunately, according to Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, a majority of those purchasers will ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Russian , Wall Street , Podcast
Bear Stearns bailed out by Feds,JPMorgan
2008-03-14 17:58:00 Full story here. Trade with ShadowTraders and avoid these incompetent schmucks. “…Bear Stearns , the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank, made its fortune dealing in opaque mortgage-backed securities ? a strategy that might be its undoing amid the worst housing slump in a quarter century. The bank has racked up $2.75 billion in write-downs since last year, and ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Meltdown Looms Larger as Credit Markets Freeze
2008-03-13 21:09:00 Full story here. Aren’t you glad you can ShadowTrade? Have the flexibility to go long and short in the futures market. Hey, if it’s good enough for the PPT, why not you? “…Yesterday’s action by the Federal Reserve proves that the banking system is insolvent. It also shows that the Fed is willing to intervene directly ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Credit , Markets , Podcast
Feds begins monetizing everybody?s busted mortgages
2008-03-13 20:43:00 Full story here. Build yourself a financial arc with Shadowtraders instead of buying the bankers’ ‘flood insurance’ paper. “…The US Federal Reserve has taken the boldest action since the 1930s, accepting $200bn (£100bn) of housing debt as collateral to prevent an implosion of the mortgage finance industry and head off a full-blown economic crisis. The Bank of England, the ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Mortgages , Monetizing
A Rich Free-Market Legacy?for some
2008-03-11 21:07:00 Another great piece from economist Henry C.K. Liu. This is a long one, but it’s a good history lesson that translates to today’s environment. Use ShadowTraders to get yourself out of the hamster wheel of debt and uncertainty. “…In a congressional hearing on executive pay held on March 7 by the House Committee on Oversight and ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Rich , Market , Free
Derivates Bubble
2008-03-11 19:26:00 Gory details here. Being a little familiar with gambling, I can’t help but feel a twinge at the scale of this. Or for the schmucks who don’t realize their mutual fund is “doubling down” with their dough. “…Data on the five-fold growth of derivatives to $516 trillion in five years comes from the most recent survey ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Bubble
Post-Bubble America
2008-03-10 23:04:00 Full story here. The present state of the economy is the poster child for what happens when the music stops and everyone goes running for the (insuffient number of) seats. Use ShadowTraders to get out of the boring game of debt. “…On Tuesday (March 4th), Bernanke addressed the Independent Community of Bankers of America exhorting them ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Post , Podcast
Fed pins hopes on $200bn liquidity boost
2008-03-10 21:31:00 Full story here. Don’t pin your hopes on anything other than your own production. Use ShadowTraders to get your production up! “…The Fed said the fresh money was needed to “address heightened liquidity pressures in the term funding markets”. A tentative rebound on Wall Street ran out of steam in late trading as shares slid perilously close ... More About: Commentary , Hopes , Blogroll , Podcast , Pins
Euro-trash
2008-03-10 19:31:00 A continuation of the “Dead Dollar Sketch” from last week. Maybe we need to book Leonard Nimoy to do “In Search of…a durable currency.” No single currency–that’s not backed by gold–will be a panacea to economic stresses. Use ShadowTraders to trade efficiently (whatever instruments you want), make and keep your gains, and do what you ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Euro , Podcast , Trash
Beware the Eides of March!
2008-03-09 15:47:00 Hold on to your horses!!! Sound the alert. Last Friday we hit double bottom 11870 and bounced back closing at 11893. We have been awaiting that number. Could this foretell the change we’ve wanted to see? This might be the Eides of March . Let’s see what is in store for us this week. It wasn’t a ... More About: Commentary , Podcast , Beware
Fed?s rescue has failed
2008-03-07 21:29:00 Full story here. Not quite flat-line, but things are definitely going to change. Don’t wait for changing laws, brokerages, joss sticks or anything else to handle the situation for you. Trading with ShadowTraders can get you to higher ground ahead of the tsunami. “…The UK hedge fund Peloton Partners misjudged this fresh leg of the crunch. ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Rescue
How much does a war cost?
2008-03-07 19:15:00 Full story here. Am I getting political? No, war is another form of goverment investment and we must confront it (and it’s final products) as much as we would with any other programs it sponsors. “…How much, for instance, does one week of Bush’s wars cost? Glad you asked. If we consider the wars in Iraq and ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Cost
Worthless money?guaranteed!
2008-03-07 18:54:00 I love this guy. Anyone who’s job description is “an avocational exercise to heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it” is my kind of guy. Use ShadowTraders and trade from anywhere, anytime. Remember, you’re only guaranteed whatever you’re holding, not hot air from broke brokers. “…there is no known example, in the history of the ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Money , Podcast
Why the dollar is so cheap
2008-03-06 19:06:00 Article is here. Government and Banker greed/stupidity went on a spending spree like Paris Hilton. Now the world has yanked the credit card away from the drunken tart–what’s a self-centered, bombastic deficit-lover to do? Well, for a start, you can trade with ShadowTraders so you have an abundance to thrive on. “…The dollar is trading at ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Dollar , Podcast , Cheap
Fears of a Commodities Crash Grow
2008-03-05 22:11:00 Full story here. The best commodity is competence in the market. Use ShadowTraders technology to be a competent trader. “…Brazil has ramped up cane production in a burst of expansion. It is now exporting record amounts of sugar, even after diverting half its harvest into ethanol for cars. By any definition, there is a global glut. Yet ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Commodities , Podcast , Crash
Retiree couple needs $225K for Medical
2008-03-05 18:56:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders to really get your nest egg padded. “…The Fidelity study, which has been conducted annually since 2002, assumes workers do not have employer-sponsored retiree health care coverage. It includes expenses associated with Medicare premium payments as well as co-payments and deductibles, plus out-of-pocket prescription drug costs. “With health care costs continuing to outpace ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Medical , Podcast , Couple
Buffett warns on recession and dollar
2008-03-04 00:11:00 Article here. This is why Buffett has billions and Bernanke is a blithering twit: Buffett knows what the deal is, and calls it like he sees it. Use ShadowTraders, make your money and use it sanely. “…The US is in recession by ?any common sense definition? of the word, the country?s most successful investor said on Monday. Warren ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Dollar , Podcast
Dead Dollar Sketch
2008-03-03 21:59:00 Full story here. Finally, finance and Monty Python come together (you can’t imagine how giddy this makes me feel). Moral of the story? Stop going long on dead parrots, get trading with ShadowTraders. ”…Meanwhile, back with the dead dollar, its patrons are concocting new brews to keep the charade of life going, much like the shop ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Dollar , Podcast , Dead
Election Results Already!
2008-02-28 22:51:00 This is milk-coming-out-of-your-nose-funny! A must-see for those of you who can’t wait til November… More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Results , Podcast , Election
Greenspan tells Gulf States to drop the dollar
More articles from this author:2008-02-28 19:44:00 Article is here. Funny how this data didn’t come out in America…so, who’s got bets that Greenspan (or his buddies) have shorts on the dollar? You’d expect that someone, who spent 18 years trying to guide fiscal policy, wouldn’t be now spending his free time telling others how to help crash the US economy. Where are ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Dollar , Podcast 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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