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    What's Wrong with Canada?

    Not a big secret that a lot of Canadians do a lot of business with a lot of Americans. the 'neighbour/neighbor' and the 'colour/color' and 'grey/gray'... lines get pretty blurred sometimes so its not exactly like checking a passprt
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    What's Wrong with Canada?

    bashing on the Maple Leaf, can't let that sit. Canada is HUGE, lot of talk about the climate here and Canada being the second largest land mass country, we have a range of climates. Vancouver for example, where I live, I have rarely seen snow off of ski mountains. Some of the best beaches and...
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    orders on a tenth of a cent?

    Anyone have any info on how these orders are placed and which ECNs are able to be used and what related fees may look like? example, microsoft printing at 24.768 Is this something avail to 'the little guy' through a darkbook or something along those lines? or is it institution only I...
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    Canada’s Fiscal Strength Means Commodities Won’t Sink Soundest G-7 Economy

    Vancouver has gorgeous weather! (part of the year anyway) but the cost of living may soon rival Manhattan.
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    TSX Prop Firm with options and overnight?

    This may not be be need to be a prop firm exactly but even just a 'capital firm' or private investor or something of the like. I will preface this by saying I reside in Canada (Vancouver to be exact) I am looking for one of two things, The first being a prop firm that has the following...
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    Experienced Traders' Bloopers

    I had the apple levelII up just to look at it out of curiosity as some news alert was out and I wanted to look at the level II flying around just for giggles. I moved my mouse 'over to the left' and my thumb hit the enter key on my num pad entering me into the position. I had not made a trade in...
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    Trader P/L 2009

    down 164 again.... on a pretty impressive losing streak... Think I need to get back to basics. When trading feels like i have entirely too much noise with diff strategies and theories flying through my head.
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    Trader P/L 2009

    -165 for the day.. missed a few gorgeous gap fills in the morning and my answer to slow choppy lunchtime was increased size... hahaha you can all guess how that went.
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    Trader P/L 2009

    going to start posting in this section and blotter will accompany tomorrows post after my girlfriend shows me how to do that :) -161 broke 2 of my own rules and lost a few bucks in INTC noise
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    A 70k bet that I can't make a 50% gain in 2009

    Just discovered your thread recently and it looks like youre kicking ass so good on ya! Just wathed that last SKF trade and yeah.... always painful to 'almost' hit a target then come all the way back. Do you have a point that you move your stop up to even pre calculated? Or once it starts...
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    Are you fulltime trader?

    1)I always make money... just usually for someone on the other side of my trades. 2)if you count the '.00' in a dollar amount then 6 digits does seem like a lofty goal 3)OOPS. i mean i KNOW quite a few people that have paid off their houses. 4)usually only takes me 3-4 hours a week to blow up...
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    Are you living the "good life" with $10 million?

    I think almost everyone likes apple juice. I heard a great quote once regarding money and being happy and what not. 'Money cant buy happiness, but it can absolutely make 80% of the stuff that makes you unhappy, go away' Stuff like excessive bills and 'needing' to go to a job that eats...
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