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In FL were I live, cattle, citrus, dairy, and sugar farmers are among the wealthiest and best connected politically in the state. Do the math, 5,000 to 10,000 acre ranch worth 3 - 6k per acre............ I know several who have private runways on their land, with personal planes that they...

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The trick is to have an active afterwork life. If you do not have a family find activities outside the house to go do with people after work otherwise you will get cabin fever and your social skills will deteriorate. Good luck

Good post maler. Not to mention this practice disincentivezes other liquidity providers from posting bids and offers in the displayed market. Often times you get filled when you are wrong, because the "informed" trades are internalized or the flow is sold to hft firms leaving the displayed nbbo...

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Def, correct me if I am wrong Timberhill (like other teir 1 broker dealers) gives sub penny price improvement for internalized orders. For instance Bid 10 Offer 10.05. If a sell order is sent the order is filled at 10.0001. Calling this price improvement is techinically correct, however, in...

Landslide victory in the House of Representatives, and no mention of the transaction tax by the debt committee apointed by Obama...... We are in the clear for a while.

70% of ALL VOLUME in the market today is high frequency day trading. This is documented and complained about on sites like this weekly. Day trading has evolved. The new players are HFT firms with algo's, independent daytraders with algos, etc.

Is anyone here trading corporate bonds using IB or any other direct access broker? I would love to start a discussion about this.

My self interest as well as other who make their living trading. This is a trading forum isn't it?

The market structure is stripped of displayed liquidity the more sub penny trading happens. It is in most of our self interest for this practice to end. That is the spade. Good job Dennis! Keep up the good work.

I use sprint (I live in FL) and have not nothing bad to say. It helps me get mobile so that I am not glued to my main computer when things are slow but I have to baby sit my positions.

EricP, I moved to Bright over 3 1/2 years ago with a very profitable strategy. My trading is kept very close to the hip and they respect that. The people who train and share do so as entrepreneurs . They approach Bob and Don with a business proposition and profit from teaching what they...

Yes. This one. http://www.soundstrue.com/shop/SelectProd.do?prodId=2346&manufacturer=The%20Relaxation%20Company&name=Theta%20Meditation%20System I am in my 30's with 2 little children. It helps me transition from trading to part 2 of the day. I look at it like a "reboot". I really look...