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

To: Paul Kern who wrote (78829)	1/21/2008 10:58:13 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

They can. However, someone lobbied hard for the removal of curbs on NYSE in late October. That someone was definitely not long in the beginning of November when the new "no curbs" went through, and, quite likely, started this decline. We'll stop crashing and the Fed will come out and save the day when they decide it's time and cover, going LONG, or, alternatively, we keep crashing even then, because they played with fire and burned down the house. The Fed coming out would be a signal they are long. It would be fun then if the market ignored the Fed and them, and kept crashing. <g> I guess the futures should be very green going into that event, even though very green futures would not be an indication emergency rate cut necessarily will occur at this point - they can just happen -g-

To: Paul Kern who wrote (78829)	1/21/2008 11:15:32 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

After this August quite a few folks have wondered which firms exactly did the Fed consult prior to making the market-turning discount rate cut announcement, since the Fed has been a bit too open about the fact that they did consult a few big firms. A few less lucky big firms may have asked certain enforcement agencies a question or two about that, certain agencies may have responded by asking the Fed and the other firms a few questions, and thus, no more surprise announcements. -g- I mean, after all, such activity does violate certain securities laws, and the parties involved may go to prison, if caught. That would be well deserved, by the way, and a few scary questions may have ended these surprises. -g-