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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (73465)	7/11/2006 3:32:30 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 94695

Well, I think it is done by the Fed. By law the Fed can't do it, so the trade does it for the Fed, with its full knowledge and approval, and to its own benefit, of course. In exchange the Fed provides liquidity on demand. Effectively, these are government controlled markets. Well, even communist countries (China) don't do that kind of central planning. The payback is a very fudged up economy with no manufacturing, since speculation is a lot more profitable than making an honest living, and a currency collapse. I think it is here - got a golden warning Message 22613859 75% of program trading is just mostly arbitrage aligning futures bought by the Fed and cash. Shorts are gone, real buying is too. An escape? Buy gold and foreign currencies. Today is another example of shameless government control imposed on our markets