Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/17/11, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/11/2011 the SP 500 was within about .1% of where it was on 9/10/2001. The 'Lost Decade'... You lucky and prosperous bastards! Take a look at some major European indexes over the same time span. DAX for example. :D -- Arttu V. Probably need to factor the decline of the dollar vs the Euro into that analysis. For folks living inside the Euro fishbowl, their indexes have been weak because worldwide the economy is weak, but their ability to buy dollar based products, such as the U.S. markets, has become strong because the Euro has been relatively strong compared to the dollar. For folks living inside the dollar fishbowl our indexes have remained strong at least partially because people from other countries are buying our shares. However our ability to buy from other countries has dropped due to the weakness of the dollar. May we live in interesting times - Mark
Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths
On 9/17/11, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/11/2011 the SP 500 was within about .1% of where it was on 9/10/2001. The 'Lost Decade'... You lucky and prosperous bastards! Take a look at some major European indexes over the same time span. DAX for example. :D -- Arttu V.
Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths
On Sep 17, 2011 4:54 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:49:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:02:27 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] The world of trading is 99% boredom, 1% terror... Tell that to UBS... Don't go there! I used to work for UBS, about 11 years ago. I (and many others) was laid off when they lost a fortune on the dot-com bubble. Then they were bankers to Enron. Then they were bankers to Worldcom. [See a pattern here?] Then they bought sub-prime mortgage portfolios -- as hedge instruments. Now they've been shafted by one of their traders. Of course, all of the directors are business geniuses, as all senior City folk are. So, the moral of the story is: don't trust a banker. Unless he's well-versed in Gentoo :-) Rgds,
Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths
On Saturday 17 Sep 2011 09:00:37 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Sep 17, 2011 4:54 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:49:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:02:27 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] The world of trading is 99% boredom, 1% terror... Tell that to UBS... Don't go there! I used to work for UBS, about 11 years ago. I (and many others) was laid off when they lost a fortune on the dot-com bubble. Then they were bankers to Enron. Then they were bankers to Worldcom. [See a pattern here?] Then they bought sub-prime mortgage portfolios -- as hedge instruments. Now they've been shafted by one of their traders. Of course, all of the directors are business geniuses, as all senior City folk are. So, the moral of the story is: don't trust a banker. Unless he's well-versed in Gentoo :-) Since we're s [OT] I might as well ask Mark: How close are we to 1930's like depression given the state of European banks exposure to a Greek default (and how might this drag down the US with CDSs across the pond and what not)? PS. Yes, any bank(s)ters who don't use Gentoo are inherently suspicious entities ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 17 Sep 2011 09:00:37 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Sep 17, 2011 4:54 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:49:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:02:27 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] The world of trading is 99% boredom, 1% terror... Tell that to UBS... Don't go there! I used to work for UBS, about 11 years ago. I (and many others) was laid off when they lost a fortune on the dot-com bubble. Then they were bankers to Enron. Then they were bankers to Worldcom. [See a pattern here?] Then they bought sub-prime mortgage portfolios -- as hedge instruments. Now they've been shafted by one of their traders. Of course, all of the directors are business geniuses, as all senior City folk are. So, the moral of the story is: don't trust a banker. Unless he's well-versed in Gentoo :-) Since we're s [OT] I might as well ask Mark: How close are we to 1930's like depression given the state of European banks exposure to a Greek default (and how might this drag down the US with CDSs across the pond and what not)? PS. Yes, any bank(s)ters who don't use Gentoo are inherently suspicious entities ... -- Regards, Mick Mick, First, I apologize to anyone not interested. Possibly I should have answered Nick offline with all the traffic the list has had recently. I'm happy to converse with anyone about any topic concerning trading, but going forward let's do this off list. WRT the depression question I have no training, background or experience in trying to forecast that sort of thing. We are likely in at least the 2nd worst time economy of the last 100 years. I have no reason to hope it becomes the worst... WRT to the European problems, and they are legion with only 1 or 2 economies there actually doing moderately well right now, this feels like the sort of environment wherein one really bad result in the EU (Italy or Greece) could result in major issues here in the U.S. financial sector at a minimum, and as we saw in 2008, when the U.S. financial system shuts down the rest of the world, U.S. otherwise, pretty much shuts down also. At that point we're back into the sort of problems we saw a few years ago but I suspect taking longer than 5 years to repair themselves. Of course, I'm a committed (read that word any way you like, as in 'should be') fan of the Kondratiev wave/Super Cycle ideas and started positioning myself in 2001 for a major slowdown in the world economies which, so far, has worked out to be the case. On 9/11/2011 the SP 500 was within about .1% of where it was on 9/10/2001. The 'Lost Decade'... Here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave While I don't agree with the timing on the Wikipedia page - I see it as more like 2000-2017 - I think the ideas have held for over 200 years and seem to be in play now. That cycle timing would support another 5 years of these problems with a good economy from 2018-2034 or so. I had another good day Friday with 16 winners/6 losers. I hate that it's in Windows, but I love that Windows only runs here in Virtualbox VMs. I'd love to have a Linux-based trading environment that supported everything I need to do but unfortunately nothing I've tried in Linux really gets the job done for me. OK, over and out on the list. All other questions off list. Flames - /dev/null. Cheers, Mark
OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:49:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:02:27 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] The world of trading is 99% boredom, 1% terror... Tell that to UBS... Don't go there! I used to work for UBS, about 11 years ago. I (and many others) was laid off when they lost a fortune on the dot-com bubble. Then they were bankers to Enron. Then they were bankers to Worldcom. [See a pattern here?] Then they bought sub-prime mortgage portfolios -- as hedge instruments. Now they've been shafted by one of their traders. Of course, all of the directors are business geniuses, as all senior City folk are. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature
