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    Tradestation

    Cool software, but getting someone on the phone without sitting on hold for 45 min is often a challenge. As with most BD's and Trading shops (in general) customer service and finding someone that actually knows what the hell they are talking about is often very challenging.
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    Energy Market Preview

    For what it is worth, the customer service (the folks you deal with on the phone) are neither friendly nor informative. They refuse to give you any pricing until you try their mediocre free trial. The are very proud of their service, as their pricing will indicate to all that get a quote...
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    hows housing in your backyard?

    I would agree. I have lived in Austin since 1994 and have not seen any noticeable downtick in real estate here. We never saw the wonderful upswings of SD, NY and LA.....but we haven't lost anything either. Here's hoping we participate in the next glorious housing bubble....could use the extra...
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    Less than $1 commissions

    Lescor is absolutely correct. If one does 10 or 15 million shares a month every .001 begins to add up to real money over the course of 220 trading days.
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    20k to 500k

    about 4 min if you know the winning lotto numbers....otherwise, if you need to trade, I would say 1 year, 4 days, 3 hours, 12 min, and 3 sec. Good luck!!
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    Crude up, OIH down

    Why go long both.....B/C I was Bullish!! In the 5 years I have been trading energy (yes, I trade energy products almost exclusively) I rarely see Crude up big and the OIH/XLE down or flat. I attribute todays poor action to Options expiration....but I can tell you that this type of day is a...
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    Crude up, OIH down

    Only that its pissing me off!!! Been long Crude since it showed signs of life yesterday....HOWEVER, I am also long these damn OIHs Its all option related. They just wont let the OIH past 136. Also, HAl and BHI are pinned to their stikes something awful and they are about 21% of the OIH...
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    Trader P/L 2007

    If I am reading your Question correctly, I only take $$$ out for Quarterly taxes and a small bit for living expenses about every 5-6 months.....I get more interest in T-Bills in my account than I would letting xtra $$ sit in my checking account. Good luck, Bullet
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    Esignal charts freezing

    Though not related to Esignal, I have been having a ton of problems with INSTAQUOTE. Every time there is any surge in volume in either the market (in general) or in the stock that is punched into a 1 min chart....the damn thing either freezes or..worse yet..the chart gets so delayed it takes...
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    eric bolling

    Thanks....intersting article.
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    Want To Share

    The refiners might struggle a bit more than the drillers....the majors still need to DRILL (WFT was one resilient bastard, would not come down all day!)....their supplies are dwindling. Natty over 7......wouldn't be there if some folks with $$$ weren't fairly confident in a cold (sustained...
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    Want To Share

    I keep wanting to get (and stay) long oil. I really believe the cold weather is going to stick the yanks hard up east and stay there for a least a few weeks. Every time a little footing is found, it seems as though someone gets forced to liquidate.
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    Want To Share

    I (currently) only trade Energy and Home Builders.....but that reversal in Crude over the last couple hours is just scary.. I was long in two accounts and covered one as the move progressed up this AM and gave back most of the $$$ in the other account as I gave it a much bigger wiggle (I...
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    The Science of Getting Rich

    Best as I can tell, we have two fellas. A rich one and a poor (or at least disgruntled) one. The rich one should be back working (as should I) and not wasting valuable time and oxygen chatting with the disgruntled fella. The Poor fella should be doing something (Like freakin trading!)...
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    Anyone getting Raped on NYSE Market orders?

    Is this Hybrid system permanently raping anyone sending out market orders?? Am I correct in assuming we will not get any price improvement anymore? tia bullet
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    It´s time to short the brokers

    Let me make a bit more on my long and then I will sell them to you.....why people insist on picking tops is beyond me (unless you are daytrading)...
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    What Firms Scrape a Market Maker's Book??

    By scraping the book, I am referring to when your market orders scrape the market makers book (i.e. the firms inventory) before hitting the floor. Basically I have found one gets very fast fills but terrible fills. When I have scraped the book My fills are always on the offer (i.e. never any...
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    What Firms Scrape a Market Maker's Book??

    Not sure if anyone can help me with this one, but here goes.....Does anyone out there know what firms (and please describe any experience you have with this topic) scrape a market Maker's Book (for NYSE) I am trying to find out how many firms have lines through a MER, LEHM, or BSC (or any...
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    My goal is 15% a year... so what strategy?

    If Drug trafficking is out of you reality (I would not recommend this route)...I would suggest you learn how to trade (you pick the strategy, not random traders on a damn chat room) and worry about the 10, 15, and 20% gains later. If you enter this game b/c thats where the "big bucks" are...
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    TradeStation data problems...

    Damn I hate this software!!
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