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    Options.....which one?

    I have a method that is very good at predicting three to five day turns. I can, of course, hold these positions longer if they are moving in my favor. I am having a hard time picking which option to buy, or sell. It looks like the best way to do this is to sell the front month option because...
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    Which option should I be swing trading?

    I am new to options and treading water. I have a very accurate method that is very good at calling tops and bottoms and a little less good at giving an exact exit. This method can generally call a dow turn with about 40 ticks so I have been trading spy options. I am frustrated because, as I...
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    BofA issues CCs for illegal immigrants

    Getting a $500 CC with the partially secured cards being offered is no favor. Its done for the same reason as identity theft is the banking industrys best friend. Once its done your credit is trashed for seven years and the only way to undo it is to sue your way out of that mess. Why...
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    TenCent Holdings????

    thanks.....not sure what you mean about it trading through the 700 though. I do have an IB account but cant get a quote...maybe because mkt is closed. You know anything about it?
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    TenCent Holdings????

    Anyone know anything about this company and how or where to buy it? It is some sort of Chinese internet company with some ties to Hong Kong. I know...I know....but my friend wants to buy it...and shes hot!!!!!
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    Tel Aviv stock market reaches historic high

    Why should Israel stop taking money....its what they do.
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    You can't generate positive alpha without a PhD.

    phds.......doctors and lawyers all do very well in the market....they lose money with an efficiency beyond belief.
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    Who is the father of Anna Nichole Smiths baby?

    I am sure the brilliant minds of ET can resolve this dillemma.
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    CNBC $1,000,000 challenge

    SO if I read this right....you buy APPL at 10 AM $80 a share....it goes up $10 and closes at the high. You are then long at $90 and it goes down the following day back to $80...and you actually lose $10????? And you cant sell short......... From the rules: Pricing of Trades...
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    I want to raise $10 million to trade...

    I have just sent Mr Ripley the $10 Million I earned selling John Gibson shaped potatoe chips on Ebay by paypal. I trust him completely.
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    $25,000 Minimum

    Do the pattern day trader rules alos apply to single stock futures?
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    Island Reversal forming on the OIH

    Looks to me like OIH will go down another $10 to $120 or so.
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    Is it stupid to short the top % gainers of the day?

    If you are making 10% a month the last thing you need ia advice from people on ET...... I would start small and add size every time you make a certain amount of money, maybe $1000. If you have a few losers in a row then you need to find out what you did wrong.
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    YM up 73.....why?

    Anyone?
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    IB EFP implied rates

    I have looked at these too..... SO an efp is you buy 100 shares of goog and sell one futures contract against it and are guaranteed 5.5%??? Is that all it is? If so.....why not just get a money market at 5.1%? What am I missing? I called IB and the guy on the phone didnt...
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    Single Stock Futures - SSFs - opinions?

    That would be my question too....how are they better than in the money options?
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    Single STock Futures.....

    Does anyone trade these and what have their experiences been? I am considering shorting the QQQQs march contract which has a spread of 12 cents. It seems like they have a time premium built in. I have a small account and am looking for something that offers enough leverage to make some...
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    My boy is back!

    It looks like Eprado is your daddy......
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    futures down---looks like ths is the start of the sell-off!

    If you call 10 tops you can refer to the one that was right and attract millions of investors based on the track record you dont have.
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    Traders make money, but here is how some traders make serious money

    No Bit...youre not going to until you can.....thats why you lay low until you see things and then lock and load..... Most do the opposite.
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