Recent content by BLip

Let me preface my question with the statement that I have already done a Google search and have found very limited results, so I thought I'd post to ET. Does anyone know if there are any training/certification classes for the FIX protocol in NYC? I am a systems developer in another...

Everyone's saying things are going to go higher from here (thanks to the Fed)... I heard someone throw out 16000. But I'm seeing a lot of securities and indexes that, technically, look to be overbought. That would suggest they have only one way to go. Am I the only one seeing this?

This is why I, too, am in the process of getting out of the IT business. I think in 15-20 years IT workers will be the equivilent of today's auto workers.

Read some posts in this thread, posted less than an hour ago: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80867&perpage=6&pagenumber=3 It may be that there hasn't been sufficient lag time yet.

Some people think this may just be the start of a larger economic plunge: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393160/index.htm?postversion=2006110111 Notice the chart comparing the HMI vs the S&P 500 over the past twelve years. A picture is worth a thousand...

Does anyone know of a place to download all of the EPS (mrq) data provided on a given day? For example, today (11/16/06) Barnes & Noble, Hewlett-Packard, and Starbucks are all scheduled to have conference calls where they will (presumably) announce their EPS (mrq) data. Is there a service...

John, If someone five years out of school were trying to apply to FNYS (or any paying prop firm, for that matter) from a different field (say, IT), would real estate investments count towards being able to make the numbers? Say someone netted $175k in 3 years (on an initial $15k investment)...