We have reached escape velocity.

HFT

flash crash in WTM. Took out about the last 6 months trading range in 1 min and right back up...

nothing to see here folks

sounds right

how about we drug test all politicians. I mean we subject pro athletes to random drug tests and they just play games. These people run our country...

full steam ahead!

Yesterday I posted about bill dudleys comments and was pretty confused as to why he thought things would magically get better considering it hasnt worked for 5 years.

now I know why... just another $1.5 trillion of asset purchases over the next year, 50% increase over previous QE. there is no way the fed can stop.  They have backed themselves into corner.

bitcoin crash

oops

Coming soon to a index near you...

bill dudley

"while growth in 2013 has been disappointing, I believe a good case can be made that the pace of growth will pick up some in 2014 and then somewhat more in 2015." Keep praying bud. You guys have predicting that for 5 years, as GDP keeps getting lowered. markets up 170% since 09, 25% this year. But dont worry, it will pick up soon. we hope. or not

parabolic

1400% since 09. This pattern looks awfully familiar. Looks similar to the Feds balance sheet.

bitcoin mania

bitcoin has gone parabolic! loss of faith in fiat currency or just momo chasing dummys? It would be nice to see bitcoin succeed. 

double POMO

The markets are so strong on fundamentals, that the fed needs to pump money into the markets TWICE today! Just another 5 billion of funny money.

ups-fdx pairs trade

Im looking at a pairs trade between ups and fdx. They have a high correlation and fdx IV% is over 80%. Im buying 100 deltas of ups and selling dec 145 calls against it. Have to sell 3 calls to equal out the deltas. The best case scenario. ups goes up, fdx goes down, fdx vol contracts.

parabolic

did domino pizza find the cure for cancer?

hey russell

HFT

HFT running the markets. This took place in 1 minute. Pfizer has a $200 billon market cap, this is not a penny stock. This happens all the time. Does not matter how big or liquid the product is. There is an illusion of liquidity.