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    can i retire in 5 years starting with 5,000$ ?

    Think of all those suckers playing nickel slots......
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    Will someday Social Security invest in the stock market?

    A side note to my last post: Each year, SSA turns over any surplus funds to the U.S. Treasury, which spends the funds. In return, SSA receives special-issue, non-negotiable U.S. Treasury securities, which represent an implicit promise by the U.S. government to repay Social Security when and...
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    Will someday Social Security invest in the stock market?

    Does it make sense... absolutely Would it help shore up the crisis in SS.. sure it would. Has the Social Security Administration studied this .... Yes the have and concluded that it made enough sense that they allow all members of Congress to invest their benefits in the stock market...
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    Good day trading instruments(futures) and their symbols in tradestation.

    Since we're on the topic ... how far back does IB go with their data relative to Tradestation .... for instance if I wanted to look at a daily chart with 1 min intervals how far back would that go with IB's data feed... sorry if thats a convoluted question..
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    first fx trade

    I've heard of crazier in the FX market.... best of luck... I'll watch
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    Former Tradestation Users

    I was wondering where the former users of Tradestation went when they decided to ditch Tradestation and use another "Automated Trading Platform". I have been toying with the idea of using something else and have looked at a couple (Quant Trader and Ensign) but am worried that I am overlooking a...
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    Mini Natural Gas

    alright how about corn ... do you trade it over the machine or into the pit?
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    Mini Natural Gas

    Anyone trading the Mini Natural Gas during the day session ...... wondering how the liquidity holds up ...ease of execution etc .... wanna get into it but the volume worries me ..........
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    US or London hours?

    The only thing that use to keep NY flowing was Mutual Funds hedging international positions... and even that was drying up at the time ..... took all of about 6 months for that flow to go away.....
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    US or London hours?

    I have to agree with the other post.... London is the best for liquidity without question. When I was trading Interbank NY was already drying up and now its completely done. The only liquidity that exists in NY is the crossover from the London shift. The only exception to this is at the merc...
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    CNBC hitting new lows

    April 7 2007 Page Six New York Post Hey Now !!! MARIA'S MANTRA: DO IT AGAIN! April 7, 2007 -- MARIA Bartiromo must be a man-eating tigress in the bedroom, based on her eye-popping quotes about getting ahead in life in a new book on personal growth by veteran TV personality Bill Boggs...
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    CNBC hitting new lows

    They are putting the Fiber Optic line down on my block .... can't wait to throw out my cable service.........
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    Vista Ready API

    I was reading in their forum that Tradebullet could work under those circumstances they just hadn't tested it so they didn't recommend it .... just didn't want to be the guinea pig for that....... I trade a system that operates on its own throughout the night and couldn't take that kind of...
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    Vista Ready API

    I was wondering if anybody knew of a Vista ready API that is something like Tradebolt or Tradebullet. A platform where I can route Futures and Forex orders from Tradestation to Interactive. Tradebolt is out of biz, Tradebullet isn't Vista Ready. Ninja Trader works just wondering if there is...
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    Starting a hedge fund

    At the time I had been working on a couple of ideas on the side and programmed them into strategies. I was working as a broker for and had an established business going but just couldn't see myself doing it forever.... my biggest client at the time was beginning to go onto the machines full...
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    Starting a hedge fund

    Tatnic, First, let me wish the best of luck with your endeavor. I started a Hedge Fund back in August of 2000 and have been running it since. I read a thread that was going through yesterday about a guy who was contemplating becoming a CTA. I think you should take a read through it as...
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    Anyone experienced Forex.com

    I agree with you completely. I don't scalp either and it wouldn't eat into my profits if I did my deals through Gain.
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    Is fully automated trading a fantasy? Your opinions here

    Any doubters should click on the link below http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
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    Anyone experienced Forex.com

    You think about it .....if Forex is your business and you trade on average 3x per day thats a total of 6 trades (3 Buys and 3 Sells) and if your size is say 300,000 Euro for instance... 1 pip on each side adds up fast: 6 deals x $10 (1 pip) x 3 lots = $180/day when you take it on a week to...
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    huge slippage @ IDEALPRO

    OUCH!
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