We weren't kidding, bitches! According to FT Alphaville, clearly giving you people far too much credit than is due, a comment lefty by "sugardaddy" this morning caused the Sterling to "jackknife...falling from 1.64 to the dollar to a low of 1.61 and moving above 0.87 to the euro."
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Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:43PM
DB is the new Yahoo Message board! Congrats all around.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:44PM
@1- yeah, because commenters on Yahoo clearly move markets.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:47PM
That's fucking awesome! Now if only Greg would quit, today would be the greatest day ever on DB.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:50PM
That's awesome. What markets can we game tomorrow?
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:50PM
Way to speculate / make stuff up Alphaville. Folks - please take a second and think about just how retarded the logic being used here is.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:51PM
@5- yes, Alphaville is retarded, but it's still awesome that they're bestowing such credit on the daddy of sugar.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:51PM
I'm now worried for the "pounding-my-secretary-in-the-ass" guy's secretary. Will his rumour speading on dealbreaker lead to the unfortunate ass pounding his secretary must live in fear of?
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:53PM
Sugardaddy = Gordie Brown?
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:57PM
this is news? pump and dump has been happening for ages on the internet; and rumors have been spread around trading desks for ages as well.
the only piece of news here is that traders are looking to the internet for rumors rather than to their buddy on the phone
Posted by Investorcluzo , Jun 04, 2009 4:57PM
where is said sugardaddy? bess, has the sec called looking for his IP address? as mary j said: I don't want "no more drama"...
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 4:58PM
DB jumped the shark today. It became self-aware and can no longer function as it has been.
I suggest DB change require registration, change it's domain address every so often, then only update approved members of the change.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:00PM
@11- it's a two line post. get over yourself.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:00PM
But seriously the UK is just a big Special Olympics farm system.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:01PM
@11- kill yourself.
Posted by Anal_yst , Jun 04, 2009 5:01PM
Wonder how much that ad on Alphaville cost Mr. Daddy/DB
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:02PM
But seriously the UK is just a big Special Olympics farm system.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:02PM
@10 a/s/l?
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:04PM
Anyone have a pic of Bess Levin? I keep looking, but can only find pics of Baz Luhrmann
Posted by Investorcluzo , Jun 04, 2009 5:06PM
btw, I'm really not liking this "comments hidden for your protection" system, I wouldn't right click the story if I didn't want to read the comments...
Posted by legal eagle , Jun 04, 2009 5:07PM
Sugardaddy should get a cheesesteak. Whatever happened to that celebratory ritual anyway?
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:09PM
It is now clear that FT Alphaville = responsible for half the trolling on DB.
Out of 1000 comments/day here they watch like a hawk, they picked some random one and made it the cause? Bravo FT, well done!
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:09PM
@2...because we on dealbreaker move markets? Get over yourself...
-TGFD
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:10PM
I'm thinking that sugardaddy's comment was well thought out.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:17PM
I heard El Prezidente Obama is resigning
*shorts dollar*
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:18PM
Funny thing is that I was online when sugardaddy made his comment and the first thing I thought was whether the guy is a currency trader. I quickly checked around and concluded that sugardaddy was full of shit.
FT Alphaville now has a new theory of what happened, and it doesn't involve sugardaddy. But it's quite some publicity for DB.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:19PM
@ 24 I'd go long on the dollar if that were for serious.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:21PM
I think that Stacy-Marie chick was responsible for the whole LOBSTERCLOPS thing.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:25PM
amazing how sugar daddy's comment "caused" a price move that occured before the comment. his post was at 8:04 several minutes after the move. hence the "GBP getting killed" in his post. wow alphaville are retarded fucks.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:31PM
Sugardaddy moves markets.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:34PM
Shitman, TGFD is seriously jealous.
Sugardaddy is the man; his one-liner elicited a response from #10 Downing St.
Sugardaddy is the new killing it!
The Guy from Delaware
p.s. I hope like hell another bomb doesn't land on the trailer.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:43PM
no kidding 28, his comment was on the existing gap down in GBP. anyway that had been an active rumour all morning. FT Alphaville "writers" probably need some new material
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 5:46PM
"existing gap down in GBP"
lol gey
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 6:28PM
sugardaddy loves endicott steel.
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 6:47PM
can't believe Bess said "you people"
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 6:57PM
@30
How long before you admit that there was no bomb planted in you trailer but your meth lab exploding?
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 7:07PM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1142004332&play=1
Posted by trojan , Jun 04, 2009 7:40PM
i move keys, not markets
Posted by guest , Jun 04, 2009 9:41PM
@33 - Anacot Steel you fuckwit
Posted by Mimi Chang , Jun 04, 2009 9:56PM
I thought we didn't diss the readers?
Posted by guest , Jun 05, 2009 12:16AM
trading foreign currencies based on dealbreaker message boards is the new KILLING IT!!
Posted by EvilBuzzard , Jun 05, 2009 7:47AM
Congrats Sugardaddy. THey don't call this place Dealbreaker for nuttin'.
Posted by guest , Jun 05, 2009 8:47AM
@38 : The line, "Blue Horse Shoe Loves Anacot Steel," was the code that Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) had Bud Fox(Charlie Sheen) use for insider trading in the film "Wall Street" (1987).
Posted by guest , Jun 05, 2009 9:47AM
hey sugardaddy: i've got a couple of stocks for you to mention. call me!
Posted by guest , Jun 05, 2009 10:39AM
blue horshoe loves pounding his secretary in the ass
Posted by guest , Jun 05, 2009 12:26PM
blue horsehoe's secretary is a dude. though you'd want to know.
baconclops