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Top Five Highest Net Gains for 2008
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Username
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Result
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Week Ending
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| Kb |
$25.44 |
Oct 31, 2008 |
| Dsandler |
$20.60 |
Oct 31, 2008 |
| Zerobeat |
$19.37 |
Aug 8, 2008 |
| Kb |
$18.90 |
Apr 18, 2008 |
| Zerobeat |
$18.85 |
Oct 31, 2008 |
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Top Five Active YTD Point Leaders for 2008
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Username
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Total YTD Points
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| Giovas1 |
10 |
| Mookie |
-7,042 |
| Dkauf45 |
-8,124 |
| Noceducation |
-15,518 |
| Alexa |
-15,830 |
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Top Five Highest Net Gains for 2007
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Username
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Result
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Week Ending
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| Cleveark |
$14.85 |
Jul 13, 2007 |
| Mkemike |
$13.16 |
Jul 13, 2007 |
| Kb |
$12.59 |
Nov 30, 2007 |
| Diviv9 |
$12.00 |
Dec 7, 2007 |
| Cleveark |
$11.68 |
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Top Five Active YTD Point Leaders for 2007
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Username
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Total YTD Points
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| Cleveark |
26,586 |
| Charlie |
26,218 |
| Cvineyfly |
21,216 |
| KMC |
15,410 |
| JKL |
13,938 |
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Top Five Highest Net Gains for 2006
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Username
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Result
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Week Ending
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| Kb |
$34.47 |
May 5, 2006 |
| WillyP |
$16.22 |
May 5, 2006 |
| Stamos |
$15.73 |
May 5, 2006 |
| Ceceron |
$14.05 |
May 5, 2006 |
| Stamos |
$13.17 |
Apr 21, 2006 |
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Top Five Active YTD Point Leaders for 2006
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Username
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Total YTD Points
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| Kb |
25,006 |
| Jack_Geko |
23,846 |
| Stamos |
20,554 |
| Bouvs4 |
18,844 |
| Dsandler |
17,684 |
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Top Five Highest Net Gains for 2005
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Username
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Result
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Week Ending
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| WillyP |
$14.01 |
Sep 30, 2005 |
| Stamos |
$13.24 |
Sep 30, 2005 |
| Ceceron |
$10.85 |
Feb 4, 2005 |
| Stamos |
$10.71 |
Feb 4, 2005 |
| Ceceron |
$10.46 |
Sep 30, 2005 |
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Top Five Active YTD Point Leaders for 2005
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Username
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Total YTD Points
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| Stamos |
36,166 |
| Ceceron |
27,912 |
| WillyP |
27,540 |
| BluChipz |
22,216 |
| Cleveark |
14,184 |
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Top Five Highest Net Gains for 2004
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Username
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Result
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Week Ending
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| Lesley |
$10.19 |
Oct 29, 2004 |
| Stamos |
$10.16 |
Oct 29, 2004 |
| BluChipz |
$9.96 |
Oct 29, 2004 |
| Letheris |
$9.43 |
Nov 5, 2004 |
| KMC |
$9.23 |
Oct 29, 2004 |
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Top Five Active YTD Point Leaders for 2004
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Username
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Total YTD Points
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| Cleveark |
45,012 |
| Stamos |
34,152 |
| KMC |
28,748 |
| Charlie |
25,800 |
| Kb |
23,756 |
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Top Five Highest Net Gains for 2003
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Username
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Result
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Week Ending
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| Kb |
$15.09 |
Mar 21, 2003 |
| Kb |
$11.93 |
Jul 25, 2003 |
| Charlie |
$10.87 |
Mar 21, 2003 |
| Jesbu |
$10.69 |
Mar 21, 2003 |
| Dsandler |
$10.01 |
Mar 21, 2003 |
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Top Five Active YTD Point Leaders for 2003
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Username
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Total YTD Points
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| Letheris |
27,812 |
| Cleveark |
26,826 |
| Kb |
25,480 |
| Charlie |
19,422 |
| Dsandler |
14,366 |
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Top Five Highest Net Gains for 2002
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Username
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Result
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Week Ending
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| Rico |
$14.62 |
Nov 22, 2002 |
| Lesley |
$14.35 |
Nov 22, 2002 |
| Dsandler |
$11.52 |
Oct 18, 2002 |
| Charlie |
$9.89 |
Jul 26, 2002 |
| JDC |
$9.86 |
Mar 8, 2002 |
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Top Five Active YTD Point Leaders for 2002
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Username
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Total YTD Points
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| Rico |
10,148 |
| Dsandler |
4,124 |
| Letheris |
918 |
| Larry2 |
144 |
| Kb |
-1,054 |
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Short Term Credit Rates (December 23, 2008)
Short-term credit rates continue to fall, but are not been passed on to consumers. The worlds most widely used benchmark rate for short-term interest rates, the 3-Month Libor hit a 52-week low today at 1.46% and well below its rate of 2.81% the day Lehman filed for bankruptcy. The Ted Spread which is used as an indicator of credit risk among corporate borrowers has decreased to about 1.44%. Not a new 52-week low below .75%, but below its 2.01% on 9/15/08. As this spread increases, default risk is considered to be increasing, and investors will move to safer investments such as US treasuries even for record low yields. The Libor-OIS spread has fallen to 1.26%, but a rate that would be favorable well below 100 bps. This is a gauge for cash and when it increases it reflects that banks that are lending to other banks believe they now have a higher risk of defaulting on the loans. They will then increase the interest rate they are charging to offset this risk. It also tells us that the credit markets are not functioning properly. This is a sign of economic contraction. |
FED FUNDS FUTURES (November 19, 2008)
Based upon the 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract for the December 2008 expiration is yielding an implied rate of .44% and currently pricing in a 100% chance that the FOMC will decrease the target rate by 50 basis points to .50% on 12/16/2008. The gap change between Long Term Treasury yields and the Fed Fund Rate can indicate growth direction. The gap increasing between the two rates may indicate slower growth may be near. |
TIPS SPREAD (November 19, 2008)
The difference in yield between the 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Security (TIPS) and the benchmark 10-Year Treasury-Bond yield serves as an alternative for the market's implicit forecast for inflation for the next 10 years. That rate is about 91 basis points or 0.55%. The TIPS Yield should equal the yield of the Treasury bond on the same maturity minus the current core CPI rate (2.2%). However, the actual yield on the TIPS does not always equal the calculated yield. The difference is referred to as the TIPS spread, which many policymakers look at as a measure of projected inflation. That real rate is about 1.26% right now. When the spread between the yields decreases investors expect slower inflation. |
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