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    ES Journal - 2013

    These fuckers got me good in their 2 stop hunts today Lesson learned I guess
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    ES Journal - 2013

    who is buying this dip?
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    ES Journal - 2013

    Potential trend day today?
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    wanna see a squeeze? look at LOTE, I'd be mortgaging my house and shorting if I had a borrow or a house. Its going to be under $4 within days
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    Interactive Brokers TWS Bug Thread

    You must be mistaken about the CPU. I have a core i3 3rd gen and it is barely used through the day. The avg usage is surely bellow 30% and it rarely spikes much
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    Interactive Brokers TWS Bug Thread

    Then why the recommended settings are 4GB+ RAM?
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    RM's occasional market calls...

    Come on, your thesis has to be deeper than that
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    RM's occasional market calls...

    How would you gauge whether gold has bottomed? that panic had a lot of volume and a media frenzy, it seems that a lot of funds puked during that sell-off
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    BitCoin - Intellectual Fraud or a Stunning Idea??

    Do you have a link for the paypal thing? It is a rumor or is it confirmed?
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    I shorted a bit of SPY on the fake tweet, made a few hundred but the lesson is when there is a big impact event fills are TERRIBLE. This is the first time I ever had a 6-7 second delay on SPY Could have made a fortune on the way back up but I missed that
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    UNXL looks like is done http://www.citronresearch.com/unipixel-the-truth-and-only-the-truth-for-once/
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    As I understand the borrow rates after the options prices (due higher delta hedging costs) so one way or the other you pay up
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    could you explain the thesis behind it?
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    http://www.citronresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/UNXL-final.pdf Really interesting work by Citron. No shares at IB otherwise I'd put a short right now for a panic tomorrow morning
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    Eike is getting destroyed in the media every week. I'm skeptical of shorting situations like this because with so much pessimism usually the asset trades bellow its fair value, he also employs a lot of people, no idea if he will get bailed out or not but its a risk. I was actually thinking of...
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    Optimal position sizing

    Kelly is good for options where you know how much you will lose or win. Outside options the optimal F is more appropriate
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    I agree that there are games that are played around high short interest stocks. The HFTs do it daily by widening the spreads (disagreement is so strong between bulls and bears that they just figured it out that they get hit anyway) An interesting daytrading strategy is to simply buy a high...
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    I have a rule, never short a stock everybody wants to short unless you have a VERY good reason. I broke the rule and lost money. I deserved that
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    The Shorting of Frauds, Overhyped and Bankrupt Stocks Journal

    Covered UNXL I think I'm done with this stock for life
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    Global Macro Trading Journal

    I wake up and gold is up $70 off the lows, damn, what a missed opp
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