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    Raising Money for a Hedge Fund

    how would one go about doing this. please, don't say friends and family, because i don't know any wealthy people ;) can you work with financial advisors and provide some sort of referral fee? they have an established clientele and would already know who would be suitable to have a portion of...
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    FARK!!! North Korea Just Tested the Bomb

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aRTIHNAHMU8E&refer=home Yen, South Korea Stocks, Won Fall on North Korea Nuclear Test By Jake Lee and Kyung Bok Cho Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Japanese yen and South Korea's stocks and currency declined after the North Korean...
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    Middle class revolt

    the median income in the US is 44k, and among the top few in the world. now people across the world are willing to do their jobs for less, so people have to either take less to compete with those willing to do their jobs, work more, or improve their skill level to earn the same or more, not bang...
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    Only a moron would buy YouTube?

    you can't overstate the importance of being to the market first. sure youtube.com is easy to be copied. so what? yahoo was just a link portal to other sites to start. there are a billion of those now, but they weren't first. i didn't read what cuban said about the partnerships youtube is...
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    Akam

    it's an amazing company. the problem is it's extended. i'd like to see some sort of consolidation at this point - say shows good relative strength by holding up near it's highs, moving sideways, while the market dips for a week or two. the other thing i noted is that limelightnetworks.com...
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    CNBC or Bloomberg

    Fast Money is pretty good. those guys are all traders who have made their money by trading, not by writing and talking about trading or giving advice. they have that dude Eric something from the crude oil pit - he was among the biggest traders in crude oil in the pit for a while there.
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    Why the need to post PnL, real-time calls, etc?

    to prove to others that it can be done, and to create some accountability for themself. if they know their calls are going to be documented, they are going to make sure they research those calls. why would someone posting real time calls bother anyone.
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    fastow gets 6 years

    all i know is these ebbers, skilling, and ken lay got more time than gambino hitmen, rapists, murders, and gang leaders responsible for killing many. the sentences are absurd. you should never do more than 20 years for a non violent crime.
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    Bernie Ebbers's new salary

    these people didn't even steal money and if so it was a small amount. they merely hid their poor performances. it's unfortunate, but companies do fail and people do lose their jobs when that happens. this reminds me of when they asked 2 ex-enron employees who both said they enron treo...
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    Bernie Ebbers's new salary

    (cont 2) A federal appeals court last year threw out Olis's sentence, and a federal judge in Houston on Friday reduced it to six years. That means Olis is likely to spend about two more years in prison. "Not every case is Enron, and not every white-collar offender is one of the smartest...
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    Bernie Ebbers's new salary

    (contin) Public revulsion over financial crimes that cost small investors billions of dollars has barely waned since prosecutors began to investigate a string of corporate scandals in late 2001. The death of convicted Enron founder Kenneth L. Lay in July induced profanity-laden outrage from...
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    Bernie Ebbers's new salary

    this is from the very liberal washington post too Cook the Books, Get Life in Prison: Is Justice Served? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400914.html In the category of longest prison sentence, WorldCom Inc. founder Bernard J. Ebbers recently...
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    Fastow gets 6 years

    this is pretty disheartening really. from my understanding, this whole thing was Fastow's idea, and it couldn't of happened without his expertise. he should be doing the most time, not the least.
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    Shock waves in Detroit?

    'If the Democrats win the next presidential election then possibly the Chinese will be told that to sell cars in the USA they must build their plants in the USA. Lots of things might change after the next two elections." there would be a couple negative implications if that were to happen. US...
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    WSJ article on Steve Cohen and SAC Capital Mgmt

    wow, the hate on here is unbelievable. that guy is a champion. end of story. someone to be respected by traders, not trashed by mediocre and losing traders. a few of these posts wreak of envy - such an ugly quality. i have no problems with that guy at all. "he only made money cuz he got calls"...
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    scalpers on aapl today

    i tried to go with the breakout from the mini consolidation on the daily this morning. it didn't work :mad:
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    Are the big firms "stealing" ECN rebates?

    i also see nothing wrong with this. if you're doing more than 30 million shares a month, then maybe you could ask to split it or start your own firm.
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    I'm gonna say it...That older fellah on Forbes on Fox is ready for retirement

    because it's only ok for news channels to be biased, if they are liberal in nature and not conservative?
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    Median Incomes vs. Price of Housing

    many believe that real estate is a local issue, not national and there is some merit in those beliefs. the midwest, and areas such as ohio, montana, nebraska, iowa, etc, etc didn't experience the rapid appreciation that went on in cali, las vegas, most areas of florida, virginia, dc and the rest...
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    Bulkowski's Chart Pattern Books

    they are good books. however, in an interview, he noted that his career win % is only 49% (his winners are much bigger than his losers), so that doesn't suit my personality, but i respect his research. his second edition adequately addressed criticism that the research in his first edition was...
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