Recent content by jcmonger

an hour and 11 min to acknowledge an order...I was sure IB and ISE would wait for a move then hose me on the price....but it worked out.

ISE is not acknowledging my orders currently...anyone else having troublewith ISE right now?

Same in the bay area, northern california.

$40,000 is right. "K"..."M” guess I've written too many buy and sell tickets over the years. The neighborhood is not pristine. The complex is a little rough around the edges, but I would live there if I were in Houston. Both the neighborhood and the complex are improving. Allot of new...

I have 2 condos for sale in Houston. $40m ea. rents are in the $600-$650 range.

I haven’t used them in a couple years but IBD used to have a weekly pub. with daily data called "Daily Graphs". If you are in one of their delivery areas, they deliver on Sunday afternoons. If not they mail them to you. There was a New York & Amex book and a Nasdaq and BB book. They are...

"your only as good as your last trade"....unknown my grandpa told me this one, not sure where he got it: "It's not what you know it's who you know...and it's not who you know, it's what they think of you." I like the "chop wood carry water" one to. Regards, J.C.

I think there is a bit of truth to this BUT, I think most people do it through blind luck. The difference is if you can consistently make enough gains to stay in the game until you see the one trade that is going to work (or at least you think is going to work) and then go for the kill. How do...

My question is why do we continue to send money to overseas countries that hate us? It doesn't make sense to me, most of the countries we try to "free from oppression" don't want our bologna sandwiches anyway.

if it has a 5 letter symbol, pricing will be at the end of the day. careful with the short term trading in an open ended fund they have been known to turn down money from people that trade in and out too much. most of these "dollar/nondollar" funds are made up of govy bonds out side the u.s...

This really doesn't count but: I was walking down 4th st in Santa Monica one afternoon and walked right past Michael Milken. He was waiting for his driver to bring his car around. I knew I recognized him but "who is he, who is he, who is he...!" MICHAEL MILKEN! as the car door shut...

Give yourself a 10% bonus to play, travel, buy toys (Ferrari, boat, plane), a house or second house, pay debt, buy some bolt-ons for your squeeze, party, drink, snort, or whatever is your cup of tea. Stash 50% in muni's, to cover your eating and housing bills. Laddered out 5, 10, 15, 20, and...

If your considering ETF's, there are suppose to be 290 or so new EFT's coming to market shortly. I think they filed for listing earlier this month. I would expect them in the next couple weeks or a month... J.C.