re: the USD...really good call. if i trusted any commodity exchange AT ALL anymore, the play would have been a spread, to buy the USD and sell the Euro against it. i noticed about a month or two ago, this spread started to work. its one of those spreads i continually watch, much like the hard red spring wheat against the hard red winter wheat, or July12 corn against Dec12 corn.
nice call, it would REALLY be something, if the USD crests 80, strange days indeed.