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    USD/CAD

    The move has all but ended. It can go to 1.3150 area and then reverse.
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    what do discount brokerage firms think about Robinhood?

    Do not know the regulations, but can brokerage firms like these trade on the funds available to them via clients or use these funds in partial as collateral to take margin and then trade on them.
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    what do discount brokerage firms think about Robinhood?

    How Robinhood makes money The Bottom Line Robinhood isn’t the first brokerage to tout the $0 trade, but it appears to be the first that understands the Millennial mindset. The app may have trouble winning over experienced investors who may be turned off by its stripped down features. However...
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    what do discount brokerage firms think about Robinhood?

    This can also be a bait and switch model. I.e. develop a client base via no-commissions word of mouth marketing. Down the road, start to charge small commissions and fees and compete with firms like IB and giving free deals like newletters or news reports etc. If they can place themselves...
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    what do discount brokerage firms think about Robinhood?

    How is Robinhood's spreads on the quotes and fills on the trades. If they are making up for no-commissions via having bigger spreads or bad fills then it is not worth it. Trick is they can program their softwares to give 5 excellent fills and 6th trade a bad one to make up for the lost...
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    Smart Routing Really Smart?

    Unless doing really heavy volume, a trader should focus on building/getting a solid system that gives extra slippage allocation in the results. Smart routing etc. is good only for heavy hitters in the algo world. Care for animals........https://animalaidunlimited.org/
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    Starting out as a new advisor

    Very tough field financial selling is. In real estate attrition rate for brokers is 70% in the first year alone. Do not know about stock markets. I would rather start on part time sidekick basis and once some AUM in the folder then go 100% commission. That way you would also know about...
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    Gartman Makes "Watershed" Call: "Equity Markets Have Hit A Multi-Year Top"

    Gartman has a good name which is enought to move the markets. Care for animals https://animalaidunlimited.org/
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    The NO. 1 Secret Of Success In Trading

    In one year a newbie under a good mentorship and willingness to read/research outside of market hours can become pretty decent trader. In big houses like GS, JPM etc. new guys are put under a senior mentor in intense training who is always whipping the stick for mistakes done. They usually...
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    college is a waste of money

    A system which cannot absorb the educated graduates sure does little good to the "education cause". Many countries have thousands of grads driving taxis and being tour guides etc. Very quickly they lose most of what they learned in college and get sucked into the grind. That is not true for...
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    A scary chart.

    Thanks for a good link. Here's another scary chart............. http://www.macrotrends.net/2600/nasdaq-to-dow-ratio-chart Looks like NASDAQ/DOW ratio is making right shoulder and if so it will signal a major technology crash or an explosive Dow bull rise.
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    New to trading - Got a bunch of books. Scared to learn outdated things.

    Watch lots of youtube channels on trading. Don't get rid of the books, you can always skim them on the side. Stay away from education courses that fleece thousands from sign ups and teach little of value. Like mentioned above, throw lots of hours watching markets both in real time and after...
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    Brokerage Firms...ya get what ya pay for

    For dealyed issues like margin questions etc. you can also send them e-mail and they might answer back or have a rep. call you back...........preventing the irritation of waiting on the phone.
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    Brokerage Firms...ya get what ya pay for

    IB is good fees and other services. Slight delay in customer service should not make one change accounts. IB's fees and fills beat anyone around. Have heard of Robinhood trading that have no fees but do not know if they make up for it in the wider fills. Try to contact IB in non business...
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    Failed hedge fund manager goes into teaching investing

    Read this guy's wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Tilson Seems this co*ksucker could not beat the S&P 500 in "any" years of management when he was gobbling fees plus 20% incentive from the clients. His total run was roughly 4%/yr vrs 132% for S&P. He is a grad from Harvard...
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    letting your losers run and limiting winners

    Instead of letting losers run, it is better to keep deep stops and large portions of positions will turn back into favor. This also gives you more time to analyse and study the market action further and take better decisions, even if it is intraday position. It is always good to let the...
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    Ackman finally exits HLF!!

    So Ackman does not only invest in company but also gets his hands on management and board, in order to influence decisions to make company change or adopt course of action in business. That is acting like a private equity firm and that's why his fund does not have more than 10 positions at a...
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    Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty

    To be fair, it seems she has lots of product agreements with retailers and major portion of her earnings are coming from sales commissions. Also, she seems to be very well connected as having Kim Kardashian West show up on her full video is a very big deal that average youtuber would find...
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    Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty

    There are several bubbly and sexy gals who offer lessons on exercises and yoga etc. They wear tight and short dresses and give "valuable" in looks on how to reduce fat on thighs, belly etc. No surprise that they have good views of several millions and subscribers touching millions. However...
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    Ackman finally exits HLF!!

    HLF exit now is a good one as dip in prices can be possible. If it is true that UTX is on his trade now then be ready for a hit to Ackman's fund. UTX would be a decent play at $110-100. Although long shot it can dip further.
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