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Yeah, those anomolies will get you every time.:eek:

My plan is to call my broker and unload everything. Got to be able to get ahold of an account representative within a few minutes though, some brokers are really slow.

That's exactly how I see it. Also, eliminate fear and greed and those price manipulations won't effect you.

Keep your positions small enough that if a trade goes to heck you don't loose more than 1%-2% of your account. "To heck" could mean a 4% shorting frenzy on a daytrade or a 25% gapdown on a swingtrade. Loosing 20% of your trading capital on a single bad trade is difficult to recover from...

Madison, LOL

I've heard that too, that stop orders for NASDAQ are held at the broker until they're triggered. There is a strategy for NYSE here somewhere. The two markets ARE different, as has been pointed out.

Change your religion, give 'em what they want. That's pretty fundamental. Of course, it was easier for them to deal with people in Afghanistan who didn't agree with them. They simply paraded them around a soccer field in the back of a pickup during half-time and then publicly executed them.

Rubbles, I'm not sure about MM's but specialists get paid for every 100 shares they make a market in, so if they goose the price up a few pennies and trigger a slew of orders they profit. In other words, a major source of income for them is order flow. Market Makers may have a similar deal, I...

Yeah, what he said.

Candle, you have excellent taste. I had posted my own picture in hopes of getting a date with Martha but, well........ life goes on.

This is me in front of the exchange. Successful trading takes both humor and sophistication.

If the vix is low and your long you'd better get some diapers because your going to load them up.

My analysis(sic) just upgraded INTC but I can't buy any because my computer just had a brake(sic)down.

A suitcase nuke (1.5-12 kilotons) at ground level would only take out 4 to 12 blocks square. We're not talking megatonage here. It would be terrible but we would recover. All the financial databases and software are backed up.

Speedracer, What a load of hogwash. You sound like a real gentleman, and your wife a real loydee. ........ Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above; But not less in the bright flowerets under us Stands the revelation of His love ........ "My wife...

Anytime during the summer is good. Anytime at all. LOL There aren't nearly as many opportunities then.

Forewarned is forearmed.

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Brandonf, People aren't animals to be sheered and butchered. And the shepherd takes good care of his sheep.

Oops, there it is.