“Deception, Inc.” — profiting from the “World’s Largest Con Game”
Here’s the latest pitch from the White Cap Research folks … and yes, they did apparently find a 3-for-1 deal at their local hyperbole store: “Costlier than Madoff … More Scandalous Than Watergate … Harder to Detect Than Al Qaeda. “DECEPTION, INC. “Inside the World’s Greatest Con Game “Where governments and banks are mutual conspirators… […]
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Go with (hemp) ! They make rope as well as med derivatives. Legal to own and .02 a share!...
I have held CEF for about 10 years and saw it as a much better alternative than GLD that leases out the gold (I have hea...
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mzimmer wrote: "Same with $TTPH. It was supposed to have doubled. Just bombed today." DR KSS on $TTPH: "Don't be a su...
I agree that we should not over discuss bitcoin/altcoin on this site. That said here is why; it is the ultimate bubble...
Helen Thank you. I had not considered those as being counted. I was thinking derivatives were being counted . frank...
$CWBR $Antiviral $Mitochondria dysfunction Hi, Belgiumchocolate: A couple of recent (2017) medical papers may he...
As a physician for 40 years, with a large pain and palliative caseload, I have to say that I have been increasingly impr...
Selling premiums is bit tricky, two thing you really need. They are, really high liquidity in underlying, (more than jus...
...toxic & festering pile of horse dung Financial Derivatives are finally seen for their real true value of ZERO..!!...
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Cleveland, it might be time for a new column on biotech investing mistakes and lessons learned. One point about biotech ...
I suspect that a lot of "Gold Reserves" are nothing but IOU's. About two years ago Germany wanted return of $8 billion ...
Ja, for me $PIRS is definitely a keeper here. Look at it this way: we just got a massive POC for the entire notion of us...
Dr Casey thank you for starting this blog, I have always admired those in ER as I used to be one who scraped people off ...
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I am a former options floor broker and trader from the CBOE in the 70's and 80's. I have not been as fortunate as those...
Life is a gamble. Re "Safety",,, some seek safety in ETFs run by "Experts" Please read the following; https://seeking...
Yep. Let me take a wild guess as to why the public doesn't know about (or understand) those derivatives, or about gold a...
Knowledge suppression. That's exactly it. Like watching a magic show and having our eyes directed to 'only the allowe...
in this case the warrants are listed, so they trade just like a stock. Most brokers should treat them just like stocks ...
Therapix Biosciences is an Israeli cannabis biotech preparing for a US IPO. We doubt it will perform well, and don't int...
Interesting read in one sense, not applicable to my investing style in another, but too each his own. I am sure it has n...
Hi Rusty and welcome to the Gummopolis. As regards your question, try to remember that old debate between Lloyd Bentsen ...
$BLPH: Doc and Marianne - I happened to look up the % of institutional ownerships of several Gummune stocks yesterday...
$TSRO: May I say something about owning big-ticket securities? - you just buy fewer shares, that is all. Sure, you could...
The existence of derivatives and index instruments, coupled with the unlimited financial abilities of the central banks,...
Kenny I cannot prove the following but I have been told that derivative sales of stocks add to the volume,,eg options an...
Leslie, let me try to lead you in a particular direction, without making unsubstantiated claims about conspiracies or co...
Hi mosley: Welcome to the Gummy kasbah, and thanks for reading and posting. I think you've chosen very wisely, and I hav...
Arch, I'd say that your analysis is spot on. I'm still learning about the derivatives and manipulation. I imagine it'...
First, I want to know how Ben gets this and it is not on Edgar yet. Second, I am not concerned. This is on an automated...
How can taxpayers do it? World debt above 152 $Trillion. http://e.businessinsider.com/public/7798678 I am sure there...
We doubled our debt over Obama's presidency but still have a military and infrastructure going down the tubes, baby boom...
Leslie, I didn't see Rickard's comments on Russia and Putin, but I agree completely with the observations as you descri...
I'm glad you've been successful. I don't get the logic, though -- a short (or put buy) on Deutsche Bank is a bet that t...
An exit strategy is an especially important thing to have with Arch because if we are right about it, there are going to...
Danmcco: The congresswoman's story is quite interesting, but I am unable to understand the connection. I mean really at ...
Endece was recently issued an additional U.S. patent for its lead investigational product, NDC-1308, being developed to ...
After a second disastrous loss on 7/8/16, this was my response to an update email sent by Many Ways to Trade management:...
A comment about the statement "...the banks can't make money when rates are low." This is not true because the near-zer...
If carbon and its derivatives interest you this link may apply; http://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id...
Exploring #Zika Derivatives: diagnostics accelerate prenatal screening more broadly in U.S, benefiting $SQNM #FOGM16: h...
Fairfax has been going up lately because Prem Watsa has very aggressively hedged their portfolio against the deflationar...
Think about what will happen when the 1.600 trillion dollar derivatives market collapses. There are so many millions ...
A few news writers have pointed to the Deutsche bank as being the one that could create an international economic crisis...
I think the next bank to go bust is Deutsche Bank. 44 trillion in derivatives set to explode. Have you seen their stoc...
Re: GS...they may have the most derivatives but I would bet a dollar to a donut that they are just about delta neutral. ...
In the event you did not know; The phrase too big to fail, comes from an old adage that if you loaned someone a $100 and...
Correct But there are derivatives that have no real interest in buying companies at all but are just gambling on whether...
Arch I presume you refer to derivatives in re to overall market and large stocks, not so much (or at all?) for small bio...
nuacht Add derivatives to hedge and sovereign wealth funds and you have the reason. Derivatives are unbelievable in the...
Aspirin: The little white pill that keeps on giving. We can only hope new derivatives of salicylic acid should be a ...
First, I suspect it will get the same warning. Second, the warning, utterly vague and based on theoretical consideration...
Check out box 9. He has over 53,000 shares (derivatives ) still. My Ameitrade account shows 107% ZFGN ownership by inst...
As a digression, on a day of mostly mediocre to disappointing new on the Alzheimer disease front, I think it's worth rev...
Cleveland If you are still here ,,,It seems to me there are only two likely reasons, to let a warrant expire unexercise...
Yes, government debt, Federal/State/Local; corporate debt; bank debt; school loan debt; home loan debt; consumer and pr...
Tom you are right except for one factor,this is not just government debt which is often forgiven at taxpayer expense but...
how can you possibly make gains like this when the markets, as has been proven, are rigged? Just look at Morgan and t...
I know gummies tend to purchase stocks based on the science involved and hold on. I am in that camp. But it also helps t...
KenntG thank youThere seem to be a lot of misconceptions about ETF's probably because there are so many kinds trying to ...
Kris...one has to keep in mind, as you know, that members within a class can behave disparately, which is to say here th...
UNFORTUNATELY gold is being manipulated by the big end of town. They get away with this and then a few years later when ...
Alan, "Regarding Rex Patel's reco UWTI on the Saving Jack Kerouac thread, here's the first thing that flashes on my T...
Hi option gummies! Been off line for a while and saw new posts on thread and made me think what I have said , but not c...
I think I agree with both of you: the Zacks article is a good basic description of the downward economic spiral related ...
This is really sad. Back in 2009 I was in India and came down with prostatitis. They prescribed oral tablets of ofloxac...
Last night we were discussing a new fumaric acid product, similar in some ways to Tecfidera, that might be used against ...
Sharon, thank you for that link, it kept me up till past midnight last night and has me wondering, (maybe it was explain...
Thanks Sharon.......its a conundrum but sells teasers. Did the banks not already implod, if the Gov knew it was coming ...
Seems to be a lot of not transparency but nothing a good sales person can't take care of, plenty of derivatives to paint...
I don't know if anyone here is long CELG, but this is one I have advocated since January. It broke waaaay on through tod...
Keeping in mind that corn and its derivatives are in everything....
It is good to see some people are taking interest to use derivatives for they advantages as a part of their investing po...
"Outcome-based" derivatives?...
Thanks for sharing your option trading strategy, bdt. While I understand the basic dynamics of the trade strategy, what...
All- I (and certainly others) have been intrigued by AtheroNova ATHO since I first read about it back when we were on th...
I remember reading about the CEO of Bear Stearns. His company was one of the most respected businesses on Wall Street....
While I am definitely an investor more than a trader, people really really need to look at the technical formation brewi...
On BNIKF, a chart formation has been brewing for a few days. Both the MACD and EMA traces have negative first derivative...
Dr. K all bets are off on this type of stock. Foreign, new, just broke out. If I use my tech kn. I would tell you it is...
I wanted to get to some of the stocks brought up by a new member of this group, Brian Frank (I think that is his name! H...
Nick: RSi is a tech calculation that compares current price with recent prices to conclude, based on certain assumptions...
Has anybody read Lysistrata, the ancient Greek play? Remember what happens in it? What the women do? Maybe we should all...
The CDC released a rather interesting report today that West Nile virus, which causes a devastating encephalitis, has co...
Gold is the go but when you have the Morgans and the Sachs using it as a derivatives tool and selling 1000's of times t...
Save your money folks. THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR PETROLEUM. Petroleum and its carbon derivatives will always be th...
On LIBOR and the "scandal." "Many of the sophisticated investors who willingly signed contracts tying trillions of do...
I am thinking this has to do with the derivatives market?????...
Options trading is not a game for the uninformed neophyte. It is a very sophisticated market ploy where you can make goo...
ps - It looks to me like I need to change my "balancing" strategy a bit to include not only an emergency fund, a cash an...
After reading all the comments I am willing to go on record as stating that sometime in the next 5-10 years virtually AL...
How to win a rigged game. (Blackrock bought 32 million shares) Win when underground exchange (derivatives) goes live. ...
a good tax move i think if derivatives were moved into the sunlight they would dissolve like a vampire in the sun ...
how about derivatives exchange from White cap report ...
how about derivatives exchange from White cap report ...