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Excellent post Tokyo. I would add that journals are important to identify what you saw, felt, risked, etc. when you entered the trade. Include charts with your buys and sells and look where you got in and out. When you make enough mistakes, do what makes you money and don't do what loses...

I am told that Schonfeld has an Opus office in Boca.

It looks to me that anything from here to 1425 is a great short. It is unlikely to me that we will not retest the lows, and the volume seems to be coming off here. I am looking to buy SKF calls and sell SPY calls in the next week to week and a half.

I don't like to go long a gap up on an earnings stock, but I do like stocks that gap above the previous days highs and find support there. You may be better off trading a stock in the same sector and using the earnings stock as a leader (if earnings stock is up 5%, and related stock is flat...

Liquidity is relative. If you are looking to easily move 10 - 50k shares, 50 million+ average daily volume over three months is enough (INTC, MSFT). If you are trying to scalp around with 1000 shares, 3 - 5 million should be enough (MS, CY).

A lot of the best fills come in these down times. Put orders out on sigma with 10c discretion in the pre-mkt up and down 1.5 to 2.0 % and you will have the JV team in there giving you amazing prices. It is not difficult to pull in 1500 - 2000 by the open on 300 to 400 share orders.

By "high maintanence" do you mean "not interesting to talk to"? :p

A house, no. But land? Maybe.

The only time when I would condone protectionism would be the "infant industry" cases of emerging technologies and products that have promise as a US industry. However, having the highest amount of Research and Development in the world, the U.S. tends to be on the cutting edge of new products...

A correlation has an R-squared, which is the strength of the correlation (the closer to one the better), and then the dependent variables have a coefficient which measures the average change in the independent variable based upon a change in the dependent variable. The statement that you made...