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    Life After Trading

    Dr. Peter Venkman: Janine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries. [phone rings] Dr. Peter Venkman: You gonna answer that?
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    Patenting a Superior Trading System

    If the name is good, trademark it, get a web domain at godaddy.com, get email for it at gmail, open fanpage for it on facebook, and new twitter account.
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    Patenting a Superior Trading System

    I posted the following in another thread asking about patenting trading systems..... 01-08-09 10:37 PM Quote from jellob: Problem #1: ...Is there some sort of arrangement in which I can maintain ownership? Problem #2: I should have legal protection. Nonetheless...
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    Say you have 50$ and no education.... What are your options.

    Don't confuse education with credentials. Education is almost free (hard work needed), credentials from a central authority are becoming less and less important. Barriers to entry have to do more with networking than credentials. Work to get a excellent education from the sources below, then...
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    What Happened to MF Global?

    Expect nothing, they will use the "Hillary Hedge" "I am sorry, I do not recall.... I am sorry, I do not recall..." NOTHING
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    Education Courses

    Yale has posted some new classes complete with class notes and video. http://oyc.yale.edu/economics The Financial Theory course was taught by John Geanakopios who at one time founded Ellington Capital Management and served as Managing Director. His examples in class are from a hedge fund...
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    Education Courses

    No bashing that I can see. 'Some is way out of date.' True, true. What is working now at Bright Trading? Where are your traders making money in this world of HFT and with less upside to market opening? Still open market orders? Pair trades? More swing and overnight trading? Glad...
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    Education Courses

    Buy a $350 Asus Transformer tablet and 32gb micro sd card and load with: Reminiscences of a Stock Trader (both pdf and audio book) Google and get Paul Tudor Jones "Trader" video. Trading Bar by Bar by al Brooks (google or kindle) "When genius failed" great audio book and text...
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    Best IDE for Android App Development?

    Eclipse no question. If you are just starting look at PhoneGap.com it is an opensource environment that has an Eclipse plugin. PhoneGap also makes it easy to develop a single app for both iPhone and Android. (Not good for games, but for everything else or starting to work on Android it is...
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    The rich are waging class warfare on the poor

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    New state-of-the-art web-based trading platform

    What an overengineered POS..... Take some 2002 technology and $100k of stock video and great marketing text such as: "Meet the new generation of financial professionals. They embrace technology and have a mindset that transcends social, geographic and language boundaries. They succeed...
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    Programmers think they are like 007

    Use eLance escrow method to exchange payments for work accomplished... http://help.elance.com/entries/34480-what-is-escrow I have used it several times with no problem at all to pay for custom software development. Good luck
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    trading using " one second " time frame

    Thank you for the info, very good. What is your average holding time? Do you exit on a price profit target or time target? Thanks again
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    What is the best way to receive stock alerts to your cell phone?

    http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/939/sms_email_cingular_nextel_sprint_tmobile_verizon_virgin/ A list of 'sms gateways' for most mobile networks.... Good luck, M
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    Bright Trading's new payout model

    So if there is no difference going forward as far as payout for all clearing firms, and 80% payout is common then futures trading and possibly forex is a better option? What are you looking at Maverick? Are you giving up on prop trading, or just going to take a hit as all clearing firms are...
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    Bright Trading's new payout model

    Maverick, is there any benefit to the trader to give away 20% of their payout, such as reduced commissions? Better service? ?? Or, is this a move toward making GS uncompetitive? Thank you,
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    How can I gain 50 years trading experience?

    True, other than a 'procedures trainer' sim trading is not much help. I read a story that had gamers hooked up to an MRI doing brain scans while they were playing a game. Half of the group only played to 'score points'. The other half of the group received a small financial reward for...
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    IBD review of Atlas Shrugged

    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/540970/201007201844/Atlas-Shruggeds-Timeless-Moral-Profit-Making-Is-Virtue-Not-Vice.aspx How many jobs can be created by not addressing the problem of lack of individual responsibility? After Ed Koch was voted out of office as Mayor of New...
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    what do you do to keep awake

    I wrote my own app which uses IB as the data source... You might take a look at: http://www.newsimpact.com/price-alerts.aspx You can set price levels and they will send a email or sms message. Good luck,
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