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    Best sports for traders

    SURFING. Solitude. Ocean/Markets.. forces more powerful than any one person. Risk/reward...The chance to get your head kicked in and or the ride of your life in one session/trading day..depending on how aggressive you want to get. Waves...water or price. Learning curve....STEEP...
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    Weekly SPX options and MiniSPX

    Huh, why in the world would you play them from the long side then? What I mean is Theta will be rapid if the option is OTM. Even if your playing deep ITM it sounds like a suckers game with 5 days in existence. I am sure many of you are more option savvy than me...thoughts?
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    Weekly SPX options and MiniSPX

    How do you options guys think the Greeks will be affected with such a short lifespan?
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    Anyone been successful with Generic?

    8-1 overnight is pretty good
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    Best place to position myself in this industry

    As a 33 year old I would bet my last $ that nobody is going to hire you as a traders assistant or floor clerk. Your gonna get interviewed and the first question will be "what took you so long to get here?". But hey, I would love to be proved wrong on that matter. choice 1 - Use your network...
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    Nothing will bring this market down..................................................

    I don't know about every dip. But clearly equities are not concerned with Oil, temp slow down in gas supply or billions in damage from Katrina. The trend is in tact....for now.
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    Anyone been successful with Generic?

    do not accept anything less than 100% payout when you place a deposit.
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    What old Mr. Partridge

    Yes. I love when he tells his son Paul in a rare moment of affection "the quotes sing to me...they are telling me a story that nobody else can hear or see like the conductor of a symphony orchestra". You can argue he also created trading alerts or signals. In the book it talks about the...
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    What old Mr. Partridge

    If you like Reminiscences you must read "Jesse Livermore the worlds greatest stock trader". Its in biographical form. You will recognize his trading exploits from ROASO but it has details. For example ROASO references the time JL cornered cotton prior to WW1. But in "JL worlds greatest stock...
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    Tax Returns

    http://www.armencomp.com/tradelog/ try that. you can cut and paste from IB`s monthly statements directly into the program. I use it..I love it...have no affiliation with it...
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    Time for change?

    Commodity cycle complete do to the $ bottoming out? If you flipped Crude upside down would you go short? Gold is stagnant up top here. Through the Crude and Gold runs and the $ getting smoked from 2002-2005 equities shrugged it off. questions - Are stocks discounting everything into a...
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    AIG crossed?

    Most likely stale ECN data.
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    Is this Illegal?

    It`s all in the approach. Stock pools that are created to "corner" or sustain an artificial price are illegal and considered manipulation. But, if you are just a large buyer who happens to drive the price up while accumulating..well this happens everyday. And, if you are feeding it back out on...
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    I feel like a traitor.

    Clearly your a young person with minimal "street" experience. Take it from someone who has been in the biz since 1996 and the age of 24. The sooner you learn that NOBODY cares about whats best for you and everybody is in this for THEMSELVES. The sooner you will find success and your niche. I...
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    Performance Analytics Software

    I have used it with an IB account in the past. stocks futures and options all combined. You cut and paste the monthly statements and the software separated the issues. I am no tax whiz but it allowed me to interface with Turbotax no problemo and upload. Your right though..its more tax/accounting...
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    Performance Analytics Software

    this is the one I use right now..LOVE IT!
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    Performance Analytics Software

    I saw an article on Adaptrade in TAOSAC yesterday in Borders. I was looking into buying this today..a few interesting features such as equity curve with MA cross....if anybody has used it let us know. www.adaptrade.com
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    Money Management

    Agreed. Dr Tharps website also has a free game you can download that will help you with money management tremendously.
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    OSTK ceo

    After that interview I would flatten out my position in it regardless of long or short and never look back.......ugh. What an embarrassment....
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    OSTK ceo

    :eek: Sith lord driving his stocks manipulation...ROFLMMFAO...LOLOLOLOLOL
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