As a result of the obvious need for up-to-the minute market data within the GM forum I wish to start an 'official thread' with this as the sole focus.

Anyone with significant news regarding data from the world's financial markets is encouraged to post here. This will enable all posters to readily access the information that makes for well-informed discussion.

While raw data is always very welcome, graphs and charts would also make great additions.

Hopefully contributors will at least sometimes analyze what they see as notable events, with the result that virtually all threads in the forum will potentially be enhanced, insofar as they can easily keep pace with events.

If enough people agree to commit to posting here regularly, it will be possible for everyone to bounce in and out of this thread without the incessant need to refer to outside sources.

(I suspect the mods would tolerate one-liners for our purposes here.)

Let's make this worthy of ATS...

[edit on 17/10/08 by pause4thought]

Mod edit: removed the word "Official" in the title.

[edit on 26 Apr 09 by Gools]

This is a good idea but what would make it better is a live streaming chart in top post so the thread's always up to date. I don't know how that could be done though... any moderators know if it can be done?

edit: I can add a gold spot price chart here (because kitco uses a gif file updated every few minutes it should always be current)



[edit on 10/17/2008 by mythatsabigprobe]

Thanks, but that's the only chart I know that uses gif files. Everything else is a java application and I don't think we can embed java scripts in the forum threads. Gold price doesn't move with the market so I'm not sure how much use it is.

More importantly what use would be embedding real time charts in the context of a in-the-moment conversation? All historical value would be lost.

I think this would be a great idea; would be nice not to have to switch so many screens when covering the world markets.

On that note, what sources are people currently using to get real-time market data? Any suggestions?

Originally posted by Mainer
More importantly what use would be embedding real time charts in the context of a in-the-moment conversation? All historical value would be lost.

Oh yeah... doh!

I'll see if I can get some good current charts..

Well I think ive figured it out.
Why they are crashing the markets and withholding liquidity.
Why they have done this massive manipulation even dating back to 2004 when they removed the uptick rule.
To make it look like Obama's policy's cant be afforded.
That's all its about.That's it.
They want to win this election off the hope of Obama looking like he can promise the world and not pay for it.
They will make it look like there is no money, and then try and win on cutbacks and spending and saving.
And they want Obama to lose from saying hes going to spend to much.
Because they cant rig it this time because people are watching them.
Another terrorist attack is way out of the question.
No one is favorable upon war.
So they are going to use this to try and steal power.

Oh good, you did it! I will use this thread to post the updates from now. Nice job!!

I'd like to thank the staff, FSME Relentless, & members for supporting this thread!

Oh and of course the pioneer of the idea pause4thought...

[edit on 19-10-2008 by Scramjet76]

It looks that the ratio between traders an investors has increased in favor of traders who don't regard the gloomy economic outlook as a prime factor in their activities. The buy/sell swings are very much apparent from recent DJI charts -- swings that are caused by traders. That means, unless there are long-term, strategy-influencing news out that the investors pay attention to, the market will keep oscillating within +-4.5% territory. The traders are not completely oblivious to the input from the outside, and so it would take some announcing to steer the market and see the gains/losses to exceed the present percentage level.

Here is a model how news can affect the curve performance:



October 9 was mighty eventful, the media dutifully reported, and the aftermath is pretty visible on the ATS scoreboard. The chart doesn't tell where the interest was centered at, but it's easy to figure out that it wasn't the Bigfoot nor Other-foot forum where the action took place: it was the Global Meltdown forum designed to handle this kind of world-wide hoopla.

And so the folks clicked GM, browsed and learned.