I am also a Futures Trader and that is one of the other things I will be doing while I wait, patiently, for the next Downturn in this Market, in order to "Buy when there is Blood in the Streets."

An amazing correlation, I would not presume a causational line but maybe the bond buyers just understand that it has proven fruitless to fight the FED even Bill Gross the highest profile bond trader lost big when he fought the FED.

It has been great for traders though.

Those are created for short term traders.

Chris Chris,My grandfather (mom's side) was a bullion trader, his son (my uncle) has followed in his footsteps.

Excuses like the Patriot Act/ Homeland Security holding the money up, or excuses like the traders forgot signatures, or expired passports, all of those lame excuses so you do not get paid.

@Jon S.You may think differently about shorting when your large short gets called in when you can least afford it.There are ways to short most things these days but its far from an easy task unless you get everything right and/or have great traders.

One of my friends is a successful day trader, and he's told me that the two cardinal sins of stock trading are fear and greed.

I am told with great authority from friends in the City that within weeks of Lehmans going down, nearly everyone associated with these bonds had been let go, both in the City of London and Wall Street, and it has since become known, that many of those traders and bankers who were expecting bonuses, not only had the bonus cancelled, but are now in lots of lawsuits up and down both the U.S.

Upon further research, I discover the guy in unit 1 gets to trade rent for handyman services.