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    The airline stocks bottom-fishing thread

    airlines are in a commodity business.
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    The airline stocks bottom-fishing thread

    these stocks are traded like they are already bankrupt losing 90% of investment value is same as chapter 11 tax writeoff [ QUOTE]Quote from wutangfinancial: better to go long aerospace. I'm long ERJ. BA may hold some real value. Enough emerging market carriers will pick up the...
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    The airline stocks bottom-fishing thread

    high fuel cost is the main reason for airlines failing....people don't need to travel and in a recession,,,airlines go bust because people don't have money for vacations and companies cut back on business travel... majority of travel is descretionary.
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    The airline stocks bottom-fishing thread

    for a small position short term trade it's done well for a for 200 million dollar investment====no way!!! institutions who burned over a billion on an industry that has gone through 2 chapter 11 in the past are NUTS!,...NUTS i'll tell you. this industry is heavily in debt with...
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    For those about to die, we salute you!

    A lot dead traders and former publicly listed companies have come and gone(bankrupt)(fraud) (dead)(delisted)(quit)(went insane). A graveyard for all dead former traders and companies. RIP or live after death, return from the dead. :D
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    illegal Short Sellers may face RICO.......

    either broker/market makers comply with regulations or they lose their brokerage license. no license no business. trading securities is not a right but privilege got to laugh at market participants complaining about restrictions on trading on the exchange. don't like the...
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    Dark Pools - End of Trading As We Know It?

    50% spread intra-day.
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    Whats the difference between big traders and us?

    ie. if you are like steve jobs or bill gates and have 1 billion dollars of stock to sell, you call your broker for a much much smaller commission. commissions is their profit.
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    Dark Pools - End of Trading As We Know It?

    if mr. market is fooled he'll just have bigger 450% spreads and no volume. you might as well delist the stock from the exchanges. as price and volume of transactions is not known
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    Dark Pools - End of Trading As We Know It?

    public market displays no volume but in the backroom or dark pool you have 1,000,000 shares sold. or covered or downtick. you'll get more volatility..like 25% min. spread on stocks.
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    Dark Pools - End of Trading As We Know It?

    market makers won't participate in the open market for the shares. if some transactions are not listed or known. information is valuable in the market. hidden price, hidden identity of transacdtions...just shut down the publicly listed market and get delisted.
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    Dark Pools - End of Trading As We Know It?

    Dark pools are bad for the free market or open market system. If those sellers are so paranoid that the price or volume that they advertise would crash the price. they will have no bids. if i know the seller is desparate to sell the bids would disappear and you'll get a bigger price crash...
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    Naked short rule to be applied across entire market

    if you can't find shares or borrow shares to short, than you can't short. the fact that SEC even allows naked shorting at all is an mystery to me. market makers are exempt because they have to be on the bid and ask and actually 'provides a service' to market.
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    Naked short rule to be applied across entire market

    Naked shorting theoretically is not possible. How can you sell something you don't have so it makes the market look stupid or like scam. you are selling a IOU if these shorts want to bet they can short single stock futures, but not the stock itself. stocks can be easily manipulated in...
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    Day-Trading 2.0 for small traders

    that is only 35% per year ROI.. you might as well give your money to a hedge fund manager. Lots of professional hedge fund managers can 'PRODUCE' min. 50% ROI on account less than 1 million...man you can do that without daytrading and keep you day job.
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    WHAT happen at IB ??????

    private companies can't issue shares to the public. public companies are generally always more valuable than private companies. private companies don't have access to capital from the public. individual investors or individual hedge funds would never pay that price unless they own 100%...
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    Why do 98% of traders fail???

    all wrong. they start playing double or nothing and max. 10 leverage and going overnight when the market has changed...no volume illiquid market. volatility has increased.
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    CFTC Makes an Example Out of the Little Guy (Optiver) - Oil Manipulation Charges

    that is what you call trading. is scalping illegal now.?
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    How do large firms and pros place orders?

    How are you going to get a buy or sell order filled if your order is hidden or NOT ADVERTISED IN the STREET or MARKET!!!!! if everybody is hidden, it's really stupid way to trade. ban hidden or dark pools. don't play around.
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    Congress Pursues $80 Oil With Trading Limits, Disclosure Rules : from Bloomberg

    the futures market isn't as big as you think. even without the futures market, oil will still be produced and consumed. traded the old fashion way.
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