• 10 Oct 2008 at 9:46 AM

8000? 5000? 0?

By Bess Levin

Let’s call it early. Also, we’re challenging you now to do better than this:
Trader Tom Holler per FT 20081010.jpg
Extra points will be awarded to self-portraits sent in by Morgan Stanley and General Motors employees.

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  1. 1
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM

    1

  2. 2
    Posted by wolverinekeith | October 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM

    8050.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM

    -1000. The market will be reaching directly into our pockets and stealing dollar bills. Failing that, it will accept plastic.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM

    7500.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM

    7500.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM

    8357

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM

    this should cheer people up
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86v40ZN7AUQ

  8. 8
    Posted by wolverinekeith | October 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM

    8050.

  9. 9
    Posted by The Notorious BSC | October 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM

    0TWO MAN ENTER! ONE MAN LEAVE!!

  10. 10
    Posted by wolverinekeith | October 10, 2008 at 9:57 AM

    Is this for another mug, Bess?

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 9:59 AM

    .01 – it’s the law!

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 9:59 AM

    8215

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM

    Yo, you dudes need to go out there and buy!! You’ll bitch slap yourself in the morning for sitting on the sidelines.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM

    @13
    President Bush? Is that you?

  15. 15
    Posted by perryaub | October 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM

    7800

  16. 16
    Posted by CrazyCougar | October 10, 2008 at 10:03 AM

    7997.

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:05 AM

    Yo, you dudes need to go out there and buy!! You’ll bitch slap yourself in the morning for sitting on the sidelines.

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:05 AM

    8251

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:06 AM

    Fuck Dow. Ted’s where it’s at.
    no BITCH ASS NESS
    diddy

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:07 AM

    7905.75 done. all in.

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM

    Capital One halt financing for NY, NJ car dealers; keeps dealing funding in southeast, central US–Bloomberg
    Autch!

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM

    2469
    get it? lulz!

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM

    9250

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM

    8350

  25. 25
    Posted by RamblinWreck | October 10, 2008 at 10:10 AM

    7850

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:11 AM

    Capital One halt financing for NY, NJ car dealers; keeps dealing funding in southeast, central US–Bloomberg
    Autch!

  27. 27
    Posted by legal eagle | October 10, 2008 at 10:12 AM

    8297

  28. 28
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM

    7999
    – Commodities Desk

  29. 29
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM

    WAIT – IT BE TURNIN UP
    -MONEYGRIPWISDOM

  30. 30
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:15 AM

    The streak ends today… 8760

  31. 31
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM

    10,000 by January. Buy! Buy! Buy!

  32. 32
    Posted by RamblinWreck | October 10, 2008 at 10:18 AM

    @30,31 Look out for that cliff later today…gravity and all that.

  33. 33
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:18 AM

    Saudi Arabia will bail us out at the request of The Holy Imam himself, the Obamamessiah, direct descendent of Muhammed. We will all convert to Wahabbi Islam and live in tents.

  34. 34
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM

    8380
    TC

  35. 35
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:24 AM

    @34 I’m guessing you’d like spending time in tents given your boyscout (+troop leader) days.
    -C

  36. 36
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM

    8249

  37. 37
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:28 AM

    7845

  38. 38
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM

    Just want to leave these here, in case we need them.
    http://www.nyse.com/press/circuit_breakers.html
    Does anyone know whether they set them more frequently than quarterly? Since, well, 1100 points is about 14% now….

  39. 39
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM

    Bob, can you please repeat the bids?

  40. 40
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM

    I’m wondering how many pictures this guy took of himself given that he’s also currently appearing on the bbc homepage – http://www.bbc.co.uk

  41. 41
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:34 AM

    30,000
    http://www.amazon.com/Dow-2008-Different-This-Time/dp/1893958701/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223649209&sr=8-1

  42. 42
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:40 AM

    8675

  43. 43
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:43 AM

    @41
    Apparently many. In honor of him I propose the Holler (his last name) index.
    Here formula I’ve come up with, feel free to edit:
    [(over reaction score, from 1-5) + (jr. traders acting like lemmings score, 1-5) x (# of companies saying they will NOT go bankrupt) + (general douchiness of CEO's for the day 1-10) x (Ted Spread)]
    http://www.daylife.com/photo/0grt45QgfrfvK
    http://www.daylife.com/photo/06Xs1H68cY40R
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Share-trader-Tom-Holler-reacts-on-the-opening-course-at-the-Frankfurt-stock-exchange/photo/10102008/6/photo/photos-n-business-share-trader-tom-holler-reacts-opening-course-frankfurt-stock.html
    http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Frankfurt-stock-exchange/photo//081010/photos_ts/2008_10_09t143528_450x308_us_financial1/
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Traders-work-at-the-stock-exchange-in-FrankfurtM/photo/10102008/24/photo/photos-n-world-traders-work-stock-exchange-frankfurt-m.html&g=events/bs/20070227_ex
    happy hunting,
    -C(ountrarian)

  44. 44
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:47 AM

    5751, but not next week.
    BTW, glad to see GS at 92. Anyone for 82? MS at 8 this morning, down from 12 yesterday.
    LEH CDS at 9 cents per $dollar. Holders who paid 27 cents per $hundred should be overjoyed. What a f’n payday.
    The Guy from Delaware

  45. 45
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 10:50 AM

    8705

  46. 46
    Posted by hughjet1 | October 10, 2008 at 10:50 AM

    7200…

  47. 47
    Posted by TheUpwardlyMob | October 10, 2008 at 10:51 AM

    1337

  48. 48
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM

    @39 That circuit-breaker page says 1200, not 1100, is the trigger . . . at least on my screen.

  49. 49
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:04 AM

    @49, my screen is different than yours: 1100, 2200, 3350.

  50. 50
    Posted by Beagle | October 10, 2008 at 11:06 AM

    5600!

  51. 51
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:11 AM

    Dow 2000
    -Ghost of Joe Kennedy and D Einhorn

  52. 52
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:23 AM

    What, me worry?

  53. 53
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:24 AM

    @50 Wow, I hadn’t visited that page in MONTHS, and it was still holding the old data. I hit “refresh” and now it says 1100. VERY weird that the NYSE site is set up that way. I close my browser and log out every day, and NO other site I’ve ever visited holds an old page view through that — not even silly, unimportant sites.

  54. 54
    Posted by StillNoCouch | October 10, 2008 at 11:32 AM

    8445 (I was totally too optimistic yesterday) … Thank Gawd it was someone else’s money !

  55. 55
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:36 AM

    Dips below 8000 before settling at 8051
    Harald

  56. 56
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:40 AM

    6700.
    -DJC

  57. 57
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:51 AM

    @56 here, whoops didn’t see the rules. 8049 instead of 8051.

  58. 58
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM

    Announcement:
    Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity and oil, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

  59. 59
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:55 AM

    2 and 8, Yes, I’m that asshole that’s going to go with 2049.

  60. 60
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM

    2 and 8, Yes, I’m that asshole that’s going to go with 8049.

  61. 61
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 12:14 PM

    In which case, 61, I’ll plump for 8048.
    Nom nom nom.
    - Wharfer

  62. 62
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 12:14 PM

    In which case, 61, I’ll plump for 8048.
    Nom nom nom.
    - Wharfer

  63. 63
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 12:20 PM

    Fucksocks. (x2)

  64. 64
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 12:22 PM

    9000
    If the government guarantees bank debt and deposits, the market will have to rally.
    Call me CRAZY!
    K10

  65. 65
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 1:25 PM

    8213
    NB

  66. 66
    Posted by guest | October 10, 2008 at 2:17 PM

    7845

  67. 67
    Posted by StillNoCouch | October 10, 2008 at 5:24 PM

    8445 was my post (#55) at 11:32am (10:32 my time)
    Facial Time !

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