Recent content by DBN2005

After college, you may want to look at traditional investment firms just to get some market experience...i.e., mutual fund companies (west coast cities: LA, San fran, Phoenix), Traditional bank trust investments depts. (all over the country) or hedge funds (San Fran big on the west coast)...if...

dvda420, Don't forget commissions and exchange fees, if you are going to be trading 50k-100k shs. a day, expect comm/fees of @ least $1000 a day before you have even banked one penny. so big mistake is coming out of the gates heavy to make the "rent" money...frankly, you should trade 1K shares...

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God." Abraham Lincoln

Traders who are deeply religious, can they handle pressure better?....I guess another way to ask that is?...Does God give you your skills? Does God do your work for you?...I think alot of light can be shed from a man named Solomon, from the book in the Bible called Ecclesiastes. While it...

Where next for equities traders? By Sarah Butcher 20 Sep 2005 This isn’t a great time to be working as an equities trader. In the past four months, both Goldman Sachs and UBS have slashed US equity trading teams by up to 10%. Recruiters warn of more cuts to come, and lower bonuses...

95% of equity "investors" are not losers (over the long term) even after inflation and taxes they come out ahead. IMO.Many "speculators" lose because like any business, you're going up against talented competitors(whether its the restaurant business, dry cleaning or trading).

with vix close to 17, there will be money made on both sides just from voatility, but mkt does seem to be building a "wall of worry"...I'm looking for big blow off spike that immediately starts to retrace from the vix as capitulation point. (10,000 dow the floor?)

T-bills are issued every week, so the secondary market will have bills maturing in less than a week (liquidity would pose no problem)...the problem w/ cd's is if a bank goes into default it usually takes the FDIC months to sort out if bank gets closed, sold ect....Unfortunately,FDIC doesn't pay...

I myself have been remote trading equities for the past 2 months after 9 years trading corporate bonds in a regional dealer environment. I left on my own, but really business had been dead for well over a year. My suggestion for new people wanting to get involved in some trading capacity would...