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    Hedge Funds In Orange County, California

    These guys were features in Trader Monthly. But the guy featured in the article, to my knoweldge wasn't ever a trader himself. The firm is made up of retail brokers who really aren't traders. I am speaking of the summit group, and their commodities brokerage Opportunities in Options. Look...
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    Intel Dual Core better for trading/video edit?

    Are dual core cpus faster or not? Geez....its like asking some traders if they are profitable, come up with all kinds of good sounding reasons...but rarely answer the question
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    Expectmore.gov

    Yes....at least its a start, correct. I was wondering, though, who rates these programs? Only because its says something to the effect that..."Based on our most recent assessments, 72% of Federal programs are Performing."
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    Switching from "House money" to my own money

    If you think like this, you truly have no idea of the proper use of leverage. Trading at 20:1, for example, is like having 20 fishing hooks with worms on them in the stream. Odds are that one will get a bite, and you go over and pull the fish in. Odds are that the others will still have their...
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    How do I get noticed

    Oh...of course you can transition from a back office job to trading, just like a person who works in a manhole can transition to trading. I just believe, when you have it in your gut, that is a whole lot of intuition pointing you in a direction. Get on the express train and see what its like...
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    How do I get noticed

    If you want to trade, and you know it.... The payoffs for becoming a great trader are so very high. The younger you are, the less you risk in terms of opportunity cost to try (thats is, if you are not good or decide that actual trading is not your thing.) If you need comfort, you might...
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    Serious Question on Napoleon Hill Theory of Sex Transmutation

    I am perhaps not as well versed in the specifics. It appears to me that you can collect sexual experiences directly, and pursue the release of that energy above all goals. At the ultimate extreme, this manner of acting leads to financial ruin. It appears also to me that when a man begins to...
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    How many here actually have a Trading Plan?

    I have been trading since 1999. I have been a professional trader for each of those years. A trading plan is like an essay, its more powerful as you simplify it, and cut out the fat. Keep it as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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    An unbelievable story about the NASDAQ today:

    I guess you still miss my point. I think I missed yours. If this is truly part of your strategy, then you would have accounted for this behavior when you tested it, and it wouldn't be such a surprise. Part of that behavior would be the questionable act by the market maker in a ridiculously...
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    An unbelievable story about the NASDAQ today:

    Uh...I think the main point is you learned a $1000.00 dollar lesson on why its important to pick stocks that have some sort of liquidity. Even 100K shareas a day. But less that 1000 a day, or zero? Cmon. Trading 101....trade stocks that are liquid enough for you to trade your strategy...
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    Recent College Grad with questions about trading

    Good traders trade, they don't put it off.
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    Money Management

    nice article Don
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    Trader taxes

    I paid my tax preparer extra my first year in trading (1999). I had a combination of 1099 income for capital gains/losses and K-1 income from my trading LLC. It cost me less than $500.00 to do my taxes this year, and it seemed complex. BUT, I used that template for the following five and...
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    New IRS schedule D requirements

    This is one benefit of joining an LLC for trading. You get a K-1 and year's end and don't have to detail this. All your trades are just listed as profit(loss) in a one column total, that the IRS accepts readily and easily.
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    I HATE the new CNBC!

    Geez, my bad. I screwed that up and I apologize to you Longhorn. Maybe someone pissed in my Cheerios this morning. :)
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    I HATE the new CNBC!

    Longhorns: apparently you are a representative of CNBC? Why not just respond to the comments posted here, instead of redirecting. Are you not listening? For the record, I do not watch CNBC. It doesn't help my trading, its a distraction. But for those who do watch it, apparently the ET...
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    Tools, products and tricks that make life better

    My dad bought me one for my birthday a two or so years ago...Its awesome....he uses it everyday before tennis...and i use it to make protein shakes, salsa you name it.
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    New IB Commissions for High Volume Stock Traders

    Wow...thats comforting.
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    New CNBC Format - Big Mistake

    Maybe CNBC could hire Murial Siebert and put here in a two piece...now that would be something!
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    New CNBC Format - Big Mistake

    Is she really that hot? Perhaps regionally, but here in CA she is about average.
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