<p>By the time I saw the Monster report, the stock had already dropped. I wonder who started the rumor and if the SEC will investigate them. They are probably among those who shorted at 82.</p>
<p>“TA: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
SL: Luck.
TA: That’s a modest superpower. Why luck?
SL: Because if you have that, you have everything. The more I think about it, that would be the greatest power. If someone shoots at you, the bullet, it would miss you.”</p>
<p>I view the stock market IS a gamble. I think ppl long in aapl is on a ride because the earning report was up. Had it been down, you will be in the tanks.</p>
<p>Just like dstark said, he was put on one and some one annouced a takeover bid and his had biggest losses. You could made 10 good trades and if one after that is such a loss, it could wipe out all the hardwork.</p>
<p>Bad day for those who believe the market is on the up and up…typical day for those who think the casino is easily rigged, and the dropping of insider trading charges against Bacchus further hurts confidence</p>
<p>I could not disagree with you any more. Quick is the weak link in Squawk box. The best part of Squawk Box is when Joe starts picking on Andrew and Andrew pretends he is not a flaming liberal. I get lot of “actionable intelligence” from Squawk because lots of data is released at 8:30 a.m. Joe’s, Rick’s, and Steven’s analysis is often essential to understand what is actually going on in business on a particular day. </p>
<p>Maria Bartiromo is one of the first to get the big interviews. Her interviews are some of the best I have ever listened to. She often asks the guests to summarize “the bottom line that viewers should take from this interview”. I wish more journalists would do this.</p>
<p>I have tried watching Bloomberg and Fox Business and they simply do not have the same level of analysis and value that CNBC offers every day.</p>
<p>The problem is that the funds got too large. Peter Lynch would have trouble running Magellan Fund now…you can get a stock right, but it may not be a big enough gain to move the needle of a big fund.</p>
<p>"The CME Group Inc.’s Comex division recorded an unusually large transaction of 7,500 gold futures during one minute of trading at 8:31 a.m. EDT. The sale took out blocks of bids as large as 84 contracts in one fell swoop and cut prices down to $1,648.80 a troy ounce. The overall transaction was worth more than $1.24 billion.</p>
<p>Gold traders buzzed with speculation that the transaction was an input error — a so-called “fat finger” trade.</p>
<p>“Or a Gold Finger as it might be known in the bullion market,” traders at Citi joked in a note to clients.</p>
<p>One indicator that the transaction was a mistake was its size. At 750,000 troy ounces, such large trades are rarely conducted amid very thin trading volumes. Monday trading was expected to be quiet as market participants in China and Japan are out on holiday and many European traders are preparing for a holidays there."</p>