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LOL thanks...I like how you read all the way through and thats all you gave me. How about you're an idiot....I'm a better trader than you, or perhaps you could have posted a video clip of Gordon Gecko or Boiler Room. You know, more standard ET fare. :) Of course....being corrected on my...

Hi there.... Since corn discussion seems dead, I thought I'd take this opportunity to bitch about how much I hate corn today. If anyone is reading this and has experience with corn and especially its AH market, I have a question. Last night Dec Corn traded about 10K volume. I can't...

I'm just starting out with FUT options but 1 - Yes. I don't know about the full size futures but the SPY options are more liquid than the mini ES options. I checked today on the electonic mini options and they seemed pretty good. Spreads were .25 to .50...not bad. 2. Liquidity usually...

Haha...I hadn't even thought of that. I trade futures so I don't use Margin (in the stock sense of it). But I guess its nice for you margined stock traders. Me.....I like more interest earned.

Well...that party couldn't last forever...just got an email from IB saying they're changing to Fed Funds as the benchmark from LIBOR. Obviously LIBOR had better rates. http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/omo/dmm/fedfundsdata.cfm...

Hey! Damn you.....he's....."Keeping America Great!" :) How the F*ck is that the show's tagline. Isn't it a tad pompous? I love it when he rambles on about how great free market systems are but then calls for a complete Fed bailout of subprime loans.

Interesting, I'll have to take a peek at the ER2 once in a while....never thought to look at it for correlation but it has been a leader on the downside. GS, LEH, BSC also seemed to indicate the bottom was in. One thing that'll be lost in this Fed rally today is that the NQ (didn't look at...

I don't buy this rally. I know, its on big volume but EVERYBODY is rahing rahing it. Specifically CNBCers. Now....we rally or even hold these gains without selling off into the weekend? Then THAT convinces me up is up.

I sure somebody else can try to rationalize but I just wanted to note something. The markets not only shot up but reversed a ton of momentum down (about 20 points on the NAS in 10 minutes) and then basically reversed up and rallied 50 points in 45 minutes. I was short so I was paying close...

I don't buy it that big vol equals big profits for all traders. Bigger moves means the need for bigger stops. I'd imagine that those who did well today have strategies that don't incorporate stops.

Haha...all he needed to do was start adding as the position went against him, then.....he really would have made the big bucks. Do that next time! Shoot, now I know what I did wrong today....I entered stop losses. If I had never taken any losses, man, I would have made....packets.

Now I'm confused, I thought that their policy with Lloyd's covers you up to 1 mill in cash ? Or do you have to have over 500k in stocks AND over 100K in cash to qualify for the extra 900K of cash protection? Seems like this would be counterproductive for IB to not cover. They have to have a...

Done and done :) I don't think I'll change my strategy,,,today was just one of those days. My stops are pretty wide but moves were huge today and I kept on getting stopped out and then having the markets reverse. Was also short around 3pm, couldn't believe that drop and reverse rally that put...

I've done well throughout this market decline however today kicked my ass. Everything was off. It wasn't me.....I'm blaming the market! :D

i don't know. Where are all the bargain hunters? Goldman is rescued, Fed pumps in more liquidity and we're barely able to top Friday's high? Shouldn't we be 10 points higher at least?

Let me know what rate you get! :D

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Hmm, learning VB code vs. making money and not making dumbass incorrect predictions. Choices, choices.

Interesting. The ES is rallying but the NQ isn't. Been a while since I've seen such divergence.

Not a clue...must be some dumbass lemming quant model.