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Hopefully all these good things will drive even more traffic thru the 6E and away from the Forex bucket shops.

You guys that did not trade today were just too damn smart. Today was crap. Granted I'm a newb and trading paper 50% but I made twice my goal Monday - Thursday in the futures. When you make your goal .. it is time to shut it down! This is not a day job where you gotta show up 5 days a...

Yes, ToS still has live CNBC for free. The feed runs as late as 8-9 pm EST too!

"And now Obama is putting even more money into education. Another 12 billion." $12 Billion more in worthless liberal arts degrees. How much of that will be eaten up by 7% - 10% increases in tuition. More anecdotal evidence: My company hired two mechanical engineers .. each had 300+...

Similar to another suggestion, I think it is a keen idea to live in a different time zone than the one you are trading. For instance, if you trade the NYSE it would be smart to live in CA or better yet Alaska. You could trade starting around 5 am or so .. trade for just 4 hrs and then go do...

Ironically, enough rich people voted for that communist pos that its a virtual guarantee that he cannot touch "the system." Massachusetts has the country's only universal system and I think a single young person is about $250/mo for coverage. It is mandatory but it is subsidized a bit...

Why even do this? Why not get $10,000 of your own money and just trade the futures or forex and be your own CEO. Start small, 1 contract, try to make $500/week and then go from there. I'm an amateur, part-timer with 1 yrs experience. But for the life of me, why would any one want to...

Geoff - Have you ever asked to program the Trigger for thinkorswim ? I don't know a thing about programming but I know ToS does have open source for that sort of thing.

So this looks to earn a bit of credit if the SPY sails lower, or stays @88 but profits hugely if it goes to 95 at June expiry. According to my analyze tab, this looks like a butterfly that still makes money if SPY never goes back to the 95 jackpot. Fascinating trade.

yes.

Usually, I have a limit as to how much "heat" is the portfolio. Certainly closing something out for .10 - 0.15 removes a lot of heat and frees up capital to do other things with. That being said, how many days to expiry matters to me. This is the "event risk horizon." If the stock has...

I fear the day trader tax filed by Rep Defazio (D-OR) .. the threat is real but somewhat unlikely.

It is interesting to see what happens to this "housing stock" when the gubmint owns it. Will the renters mow the lawn? As a graduate of the housing projects just outside of Boston I can tell you it aint a pretty picture. When people don't own something they do not take care of it.

Saw Peter on CNBC last weekend on Friday night or something and he said he was bullish on stocks. Segment was with Don Luskin and I almost jumped out of bed!!!

I just finished the Livermore and one thing about his situation that does not apply anymore ... in many situations ... his trades moved the markets .. in some cases he was the market. He had unshakable confidence in his skills which seems to be necessary for a trader. He liked to live...

"SHLD the stock now ; acting tremendously bullishly." But why? Did they have earnings?

That was thing about ToS, it was the ultimate for a small fry like me. I deal in single contracts in options. The commish for 1 contract $1.50. TD AMERITRADE is like $12.50. It looks like trading is going back to the days of $50,000 minimum accounts.

Do you accuse them of shorting the hell out of their firm? I did until I started hearing about the Dubai angle.

They know this but they have to fix some rules first. (up tick will come back, leveraging % rules on hedge funds, FASB157 abolished) Just take a chill pill.

Wait until you get a taste of Obama and the 45% capital gains tax. In Obama you are talking about a man that reports $0 in equities owned, no cap gains, no cap losses, no dividends, nothing. Eery.