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Thanks, js1257 for the encouragement. Yes, we all need comic relief these days, though what I'm about to relate is of a more serious nature and unfolded not a few hours ago... The harsh ring of the phone interrupted my Sunday morning reverie. It was Gretchen Morgenstern, Pulitzer...

What a coincidence, I also trade one stock and lose money 95% of the time. So you're the #&@&!@# on the other side!

As you may have already gathered, I am an avid soccer fan and for the next few weeks will be faced with late night live broadcasts of the World Cup matches from Korea/Japan commencing at 02:00am (USA ET) and conveniently ending at about 9:20am, together with the usual daily trading. They say...

Commisso, I have the book in front of me and I can't seem to find your "letter". Do you have a page reference? FWIW, Taleb is not mentioned in the Notes (p. 415), Select Bibliography (p. 423) or Index (p. 429).

The result is final - Senegal beat France 1:0. The outcome is an upset, though not of Talebian proportions.

The World Cup could not have gotten off to a better start with Senegal leading the French 1-nil at half-time (here's hoping). Joy to the world.

The holiday weekend seems to have dulled my already feeble mind. Ignoring an unwritten rule about not trading the open which I normally have no trouble adhering to, I found myself long 1,000 PSFT (avg. 20.60) by 9:30:19. Five minutes later with PSFT at 20.40 I decided to bail and bought another...

The most recent thread was http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4514 though I suspect that this topic resurfaces at least biannually, so there must be more threads down in the archives. As for myself, after 5 years, 4 wives, 3 houses and 2 cars, I still haven't turned the...

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Shorts must've been pulling their hair upon awakening this morning to an 8-point gap-up in BGEN thanks to FDA approval of its psoriasis drug - as a sufferer of seborrheic dermatitis , I could only scratch my head. I was determined to be highly selective today ahead of the Memorial Day weekend...

Let me reveal one of my more sophisticated trading tactics which I call "shamu-ing", after SeaWorld's Shamu the killer whale. Assume that my profit target of, say, 20.66 is approaching and I wish to exit my long position of ABCD. Trades are going off at 20.61, the current bid, and any previous...

(a) provided that no one who disagrees with me is allowed to post (b) provided that no one who agrees with me isn't allowed to post (c) provided that any one who agrees with me is allowed to post (d) provided that any one who disagrees with me isn't allowed to post (Hmmmm, are the...

Thanks FasterPussyCat, Tony Oz and Magna for the kind words. I'm back after a refreshing break, though I didn't trade today due to some muscular soreness. Florida was great. I ran into a few ET members at the Village Idiots' Convention in Boca - true to my promise, I won't reveal who ($100...

Today I finally broke a 28-day losing streak (I didn't trade), so I'm rewarding myself with a two week vacation to Florida for a well-earned rest plus the chance to catch up with old friends (www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/map.html). I'll also be stopping off at Boca Raton for the two day Village...

Firstly, apologies for the erratic link in the previous post - it referenced a WAV file of Ray Peterson's 1960 hit "Tell Laura I Love Her", sung on the pavement outside GSCO's offices every Wednesday by a disgruntled investment club/amateur choir who regularly fly in from Boise, Idaho. Rumor has...

The cover was Forbes, the guy was Serge Milman who was and still is with Broadway Trading (Manhattan, not travelling round the globe).

Today's volatility was all a trader could wish for (censored) with some nice, sustained moves. Oracle crashed through both 10 and 9, and not to be outdone, Sun continued its downward descent from 64 (Sept, 2000) to 7ish. This price action apparently went unnoticed by Laura Conigliaro, Sun...

You'll spoil my joke :D (Great minds think alike)

... or a sad loss of tail.

Got whipsawed a couple of times before the economic numbers came out, which also caught me off guard. I remembered they were due out before I went to sleep and also saw them mentioned on Toni's post (Brandon's thread) this morning at about 8:30am, yet I still managed to forget in the short time...