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Originally posted by endisnighe
reply to post by GreenBicMan
Yes, I kind of know what you mean on the big guys.
The interconnectedness of the markets is the whole shebang in my mind.
I want a couple trillion to manipulate entire markets that the big boys do.
That is why I find the markets so frustrating. You have to be lucky to make the same moves as they do. Either that or make moves on the smaller fluctuations.
I only made one move, once. I got lucky, still living on it after 18 months. If the economies do not turn around, I am #ed.
As for the bunk securities, I know exactly what you mean.
I still have not seen an indicator in the oil markets. I love to try and see trends in the older markets to show what may happen in the future. Kind of a math/statistical modeler myself.
But like I said, I do not even know much about the markets, just like to try and model statistics.
Originally posted by Crito
It's not an either/or proposition. Some regulation, such as anti-trust law, helps keep markets free by breaking up monopolies, oligopolies and cartels, or by not letting them form through mergers and acquisition in the first place. Other regulation, such as forcing consumers to buy insurance from government approved vendors, makes markets less free.
We need more good regulation that encourages competition and drives prices down and less bad regulation that creates corps which are too big to fail and who have captive customer bases they can extort money from.