Posted on 10/16/2004 7:03:23 PM PDT by BCrago66
"He that sells what isn't his'un, must pay it back or go to prison."
Personally, I'm expecting a very healthy "short covering rally" in the near term.
I've been watching tradesports for a couple of weeks now....somethings fishy there.
If TradeSports wanted to fix this, it's fairly simple. Put a limit on individual positions. Real markets do it.
But with our Halperinized press corps, the Tradesports action is ignored by the press until suddenly Kerry looks good. Then it becomes a front-page story. If they can sustain this for a day or two, you will see this happen.
If you want to see where Soros is REALLY spending his money in order to change the real world, just check out the futures market for gasoline in the US market. That's where his fingerprints show everywhere, and that's where he can see his actions impacting all of us. He figures the president will be blamed for the rise in refined petroleum products. Not all of us think it's cool messing with our monthly budgets.
Karma will one day exact one hell of a toll on that ___hole.
Did you see the thread today that linked Halperin and Soros?
Is there any way to find out who is doing this ..?? Or is this protected (private) information ..??
I will dance the day he dies, to be quite frank.
I think Soros is heavily involved in the OFF scandal.
Anyone thought about the Soros Oil futures Manipulation?????
I think that the oil futures market is way to big for even Soros, single handedly, to manipulate. Clearly though, plenty of hedge funds have been involved in driving up the price of oil recently, but not to effect the election, only to make a buck.
The hedge funds have largely run out of places to stick there money because volatility in equities and bonds is very low currently. Given the absence of getting outsized returns in bonds and equities, many have switched strategies and now trade commodities, like oil.
This will eventually blow up in at least one hedge funds face and the entire party in trading oil futures will end. Remember, as recently as 1998, oil hit $11 per bbl.
"Yesterday the price of the futures were sold down from about 55 (indicating the market's estimate of a 55% probability of Bush's re-election) to 10 (indicating on a 10% probability) with a single 10,000-lot order entered by a single trader."
This isn't manipulation, this is someone mis-entering an order and losing a ton of money in the process.
I wonder what their clearly erroneous policy is.
Where do you get the idea that Larry Kudlow is Bush bashing. Kudlow is a columnist at townhall.com and is certainly no friend of Kerry.
Sorry, wrong economist. It's been a long day.
If they are being manipulated, then really aren't more reliable than polls.
I wish I knew. But if he can caused the pound of England to collapse and make 1 billion dollars from that collapse, no telling what he will try in the US markets.
I think Soros is trying to drive down Bush futures. If so, this should be an opportunity to make some easy money.
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