Recent content by Oldtimer

Gents: I want to find a list of firms offering basket trade execution capabilities. If anyone knows of such a list, I would really appreciate your passing it on. Short of such a list (which may or may not actually exist), if you know of brokers providing basket trading functionalities...

Does anyone know of a broker who provides recommendation changes and earnings revision alerts? If so, have you found the data to be useful, timely, accurate, etc? Thanks OT

IU: If you DO have savings, then a better way to use them would be to subsidize your desire to work for a trading firm. Use this time to find a firm for which to work, and don't expect to make any money. If any of your B-school professors have contacts in the brokerage world, leverage...

Has anyone actually gone through the courses and used this service? Before everyone swoops down and tells me that I'm better off reading a book, I know that. I am trying to assess whether a course and service like this would benefit me beyond the books, So, please respond only if you have...

...and this benefits Refco's trading clientele how????

I would like to hear your parallels between the Chinese treatment of their own, vs. the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians. Does it go beyond a simple, convenient and glib barb?

If the Israelis treated the Palestinians as the Chinese did their dissidents, then this thing would have been over in 1967, when the first Palestinians were invented. OT

>>Already possible to manage money for other people with Transact ?<< Virgin, No clue. I did email TransAct to ask. OT

I use TransAct and have found it to be VERY fast and reliable. The software is easy to use, but doesn't have spreading capabilities (they tell me this is right around the corner, but I've heard THAT type of talk from brokers before). I'm familiar with TT and FastTrade, and I certainly don't...

>>I'll say it again;Winnie the Pooh,Dr.seuss,Harry Potter<< Wise choices. From Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, we learn about the negative consequences of blind greed. good lesson for any trader. From Dr. Suess', Horton Hears a Who, we learn that it's not the existence of a world...

>>There is one good one I found to have alot of info its called Day Trading Online its by Christpher A. Farrel<< Never heard of it. What is good about it? What does it cover? ot

Trading futures with $2,000 shows that he's insane. Throwing the computer out the window shows that he was sane. In other words, they called him insane for the only sane act in that scenario. Ironical, ain't it? ot