Trader's Thanksgiving Prayer

Dear Lord

We are so grateful, and for so many things
but for these few alone we wish to thank you

for computers and networks and data feeds
thank you, O Lord, for the data feeds
thank you for liquidity and public participation
thank you for interbank cooperation
thank you for automatic journals, and all their woes
thank you for inspiration
thank you for Soros
and for James Harris Simons
thank you for free money, expensive free money
thank you for the scalpers
thank you for the honest brokers
thank you for all the sleepless nights, and for coffee machines
thank you for the BMWs and the Ferraris
thank you for flavored tea, without which all would be lost
thank you for the axioms of probability
thank you for all the pending orders that never got hit
thank you for the Euro
the ever rising Euro
thank you for speculative confusion
and the silly analysts and their unconscious prejudice
thank you for Japanese Housewives
thank you for the whipsaws and the tears
thank you for the US Dollar..

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No wait, scratch that. Amen.

subprime screwup?
bernanke's BS?
Japanese housewives?

oh damn, I knew I forgot something. Editing underway..

What do you mean? Many seem to make the shift to dollar selling. Or they resolve never to invest in foreign currencies again!

Either way, they are definately pretty !!!!!!!!!

And the Puritans never landed in Japan.