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    Bubble Investing

    re: I was thinking I should just devote all of my money to bubble investing This is how I make a living, but investing is the wrong term. I like to call it informed speculating and in the case of equities simply trading. During the equity bubble I was a day trader. (I still am...
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    Day-trading retirees? They're blowing bubbles

    Dustin, Likewise. If it wasn't for trading I would still be a cog in the commercial bank machine..... But there are plenty of pitfalls........ New Traders beware!
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    Out Source (sub llc or branch) Trading

    Is anyone out there opening a prop. branch or starting a sub llc. in an emerging market like India or China?
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    Investment Bank career advice

    kamdooo, For whatever reason people with less pedigree make you angry. Relax a little bit and realize that this country was built on the backs of all types.... I am afraid that the majority of wealth in this country is controlled by the people that you would probably turn your nose up to...
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    Motivation; Burnout; Increased Tediousness of Trading

    I felt burn out a couple of years ago. I took some time off and started a business with the money I made daytrading 99 trough 03. Now that the business is going well and I have people in place to take care of most of the day to day details I am chomping at the bit to start trading again...
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    Florida Real Estate - Two 110-storey condos for Miami

    You guys keep picking tops..... I don't like to step in front of a speeding train. I wait for markets to change before I jump in.... Only lucky gamblers, insiders, or lucky suckers make money picking tops.................Think of all of the tech bears in 96 and 98.. Making money is easy...
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    Florida Real Estate - Two 110-storey condos for Miami

    You have to love the way they do things in Miami........
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    Walking the walk (Blotter Thread Continued)

    Great thread! I have taken some time off day trading to start a business. If this thing is still going in sept. (when I plan to start trading again) I will jump into the fray.......:cool:
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    From Prop to ------

    Resume this, credentials that, Ivy this............. Who cares making money is easy. Venture out on your own and leave the corporate grind behind................................... If trading does not work out for you start your own business and leave the corporate "catch phrases"...
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    Mortgage bankers / Secondary Market

    Yes, The secondary market works this way: Banks bundle a group of loans and sell them in the secondary market making several % (points) unless they keep the loans in house (in which case they make their money on the interest. However, most mortgages are sold to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac...
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    Florida Real Estate - Two 110-storey condos for Miami

    What Miami is to Latinos Boca is to Americas Jewish population. It is to congested that far south for me. I like Martin and St. Lucie counties....:cool:
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    From Prop to ------

    If you choose to work for someone else maybe not. I made money daytrading and started my own corporation.
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    Florida Real Estate - Two 110-storey condos for Miami

    Quote from reid5525: So, what are the better residential areas in Miami Anything away from the person behind the et name "jackedup".
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    I can't code a simple system that works

    A program system should be addressed this way: 1. Find what works 2. develop your program 3. When things change (AND THEY WILL SOONER THAN YOU THINK) take your profits and move on. Don't look back............the ability to move on after things change is what separates the winners from...
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    housing crash

    tradersaavy, You are right, it is difficult to develop land into residential property in South Fl. because of environmentalists and red tape. This pent up demand is one of the main reason we have seen such a good run up over the past couple of years (latest census indicates an average of...
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    Florida Real Estate - Two 110-storey condos for Miami

    re: points to an overwhelming number of foreign buyers. These speculators see a glossy brochure, a hip name, and want in on Miami in general. Don't forget the dollar has been cut in half against some currencies so these prices are not as obscene to some as they are to us. The Euro and...
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    To Realtors

    Jem, I agree with you. I was suggesting that the market is not "fixed". There are many options out there for the do it your self crowd. It is a great business to be in these days....
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    Florida Real Estate - Two 110-storey condos for Miami

    No real business? What planet are you on. International Banking Import/Export Billion $ real estate industry Tourism close to North Americas largest sugar cane and citrus production
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    To Realtors

    I put my house on ByOwner.com and it had a contract on it within one day with back up offers calling on a daily basis. I was out of pocket $1000 on a 300k sale. In a sellers market you don't need to pay those commissions. But in a buyers market appraised value minus 6% is better than no...
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    housing crash

    http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=23&locallnk=yes&frm=bymap&mnbed=0&mnbath=0&mnprice=300000&mxprice=99999999&js=off&pgnum=3&fid=so&mnsqft=&mls=xmls&areaid=11&typ=1%2C+2%2C+3%2C+4%2C+5%2C+6%2C+7&poe=realtor&ct=Charlotte&st=NC&sbint=&vtsort=&sid=04B0135083A4C&snumxlid=1045145759&...
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