And the foreclosure bidding services are analogous to the floor traders taking the order from the various firms' clients.

I am a technical trader and look at numbers more than anything else if I am trading.

Amateur traders should also not have their feelings in the game.As for the market falling, most traders were calling for a double dip (happens every time historically).

Unable to work for themselves, seeking the safety of an advanced degree, they have dropped 200K on an U of Chicago law school education and the best they can do is to work for a fund where the people making all the money are 20 and 30 year old traders.

Granted it's just one person's opinion, but it seems like he's being pretty frank about the state of things:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bbc-speechless-trader-tells-truth-collapse-comingand-goldman-rules-world

the site won't open on the computer I'm on I'll have to try to look at it later.it says day trader, I'm fimalar with the terms in stock investing. but considering its on BP forum i thought it was refering to RE investing,(maybe i should look at the website before I open my mouth, or type I mean)

Just be careful of the forex exposure cos its a killer if using your home currency.

How long are people going to blame others, banks, governments, wall street traders, real estate investors, etc.?

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS.

The usual names, though are "investor" and "trader".