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    Sorry doom and gloomers. The real estate market is hot in California.

    Well LA and Socal is such a multi-varied and tough market its not easy to make a blanket statement. But sure the general reality is its still deep in the mud and when you look around town you can see it. One example is a friend who just bought a short sale ranch style McMansion by...
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    Paul Tudor Jones

    Once someone goes torrent on this, it will never die off I would check piratebay
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    Star trader threatens to leave Citi

    Same protectionist lunacy just happened with US Forex markets and the NFA. They banned a few rather mundane practices in retail FX such as Hedging (going long and short on the same position) and applying FIFO accounts to trades (first in first out) all of which DONT matter much to retail...
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    Star trader threatens to leave Citi

    Sure...can him and dont pay the bonus...send them to London or Dubai to trade with their banks and their money. Maybe a SWF like the Saudis or Taiwan should hire his team (Sovereign Wealth Fund) then it goes from producing a net gain for the US economy to a net loss for us. Perhaps we...
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    Paul Tudor Jones

    For anyone looking for the videos...YouTube has them all in a 5 videos...so it looks like it lives on. Remember you can extract videos on youtube to save forever....just save them (google that concept) and use VLC player (google that) to play them. Good Luck Im a Forbes and we have more...
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    •CIT Hit With Interest Rate More Than 25 Times Libor

    Main Stream media and its lack of any analysis or indepth story...leeching its way into ET...but whats new :)
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    FXCM server is down again ! ! !

    Anyone know how their newer offering the "institutional" price feed of their Active TRader is performing? At first I heard it was only for large account but now I hear that any size and any lot size is open for trading on it...so I have to wonder if its still a institutional spread
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    best books you've read on trading

    Just read this one and its at the very least a fun read with some insight into some big players in the markets. For traders it really does a good job highlighting the psychological ups and downs to your trading on your best and worst days and offers some pretty practical advice...sure some...
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    How to manage risky traders - 10% a day and 50% drawdowns

    So we have this trader who is amazingly profitable...day scalper. All things are great until that one day a month as usual happens and the 50% drawdown hits in. Is it as simple as us just pulling the plug at 10% that day and letting him cool off a day or a week? Im sure its not that...
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    Has Elite Trader "jumped the shark?"

    Perhaps just a temporary drawdown with new highs to be reached soon after we have a triple bottom...
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    Genesis Trading Groups

    What volumes are you looking at? Who out there compares or is better than Genesis in your opinion? thanks
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    The whole equities Prime Broker thing...

    Way to try and be independent... Yes there might be some opportunity there, so many of the Primes and Broker dealers in NYC are somewhat sitting and guarding their markets...and not offering anything competent to the newer black box fully electronic traders, esp in those interntl funds that...
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    IB changes interest calc from LIBOR to Fed Funds

    So just to guage the market out there...but my funds are held at a number of different clearing firms...MAN, RCG, GHCO, IB and such....sure I have money in t-bills getting the interest, but what does anyone out there know when it comes to the interest they are getting on my non-tbilled funds...
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    Server Problems ????

    Haha....all programs everywhere go down. What firm is your SR through? But what happens if you are a Scalper and you get caught in a position when Servers go down ?? Does Broker give refunds ?? What happens is that you better take care of it right away....call your orders in and get...
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    Specail Rates For Dax & Euro Stoxx 50 Traders

    I'm a client and their German Desk guys mark and claus are very on the ball when it comes to Eurex and more advanced trading issues...so let me send them some love and recommend them...their direct email is GermanDesk@globalfutures.com:)
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    SP Trader - Huge returns...anyone invested with them

    This is exactly the kind of stuff we need to hear...I'm actually on the phone right now with the schmuck in germany who sent them 5k...showing him the comments here....he's quite shocked. Anyhow post whatever else you have...it makes me wonder how many of these fancy scams exist out there...
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    SP Trader - Huge returns...anyone invested with them

    Thanks for the post Metal...I agree, thats why I started the post, I also dont believe the results....but hell I'm going to ask my colleague who went over to meet them...what the deal was, but hell Im sure even a scam thats making that much money...can easily afford a nice fake office. Oh...
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    SP Trader - Huge returns...anyone invested with them

    Its a software programmer sorta colleague in germany...he only sent the minimum as well, he sent them to that swiss wire instruction thing.
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    OpenQuant - SmartQuant's new product for the retail market

    Is this an attempt to follow educational pricing models, such as selling spendy commercial software to college students for a big cut...your price difference is equivalent to what major 3D animation packages charge...5k for business, 500 for students. Has Smartquant ever offered educational...
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    Is this the tourettes forum?

    Those bad day trades becomes a buy and hold investment....
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