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I never wear a seat belt that is the risk taker in me. But I would never buy a motorcycle either, I refuse to travel on concrete roadways not surrounded by a metal cage, I cannot take that much exposure to risk. I do not like planes and it has been a couple of decades since I travelled in one...

You can get quotes through the Level II /Market depth panel for NYSE stocks, if the other quotes are out.

I can only interpret that as they have been lenient in allowing people to hold overnight. I rarely hold overnight but any position that I do hold overnight is always under the normal buying power amd I would never try to hold overnight with Day Trading Buying Power.

I have daytraded on margin for over 15 years. These are the only items that seem like changes to me. I am not sure if I ever heard of a restrictive classification before, and I thought you had to have at least 25k at the start of the day or you could not daytrade at all. They seem to be saying...

As a daytrader, I feel NO guilt. I would feel very guilty if I were a politician or a clergy man. Being a member of either one of our two major corrupt political parties or being a member of most denominations that I can think of, could pose a large burden of guilty. Being merely a market...

The argument about the similarities between gambling and trading are many. I am not sure if I am "gambler" or not. The only gambling that I have ever done was sports gambling in the early eighties. I gambled very large amounts particularly considering what I had to risk. I churned an awful lot...

My first LCD monitor was a NEC with something they called Opticlear. I have kept buying NEC's with Opticlear. When I see other people's screens, I am just not accustomed to that look.

Sir, you are correct.

The market made the point that JPM's gain was CITI's pain. BAC was a push.

He is going to explain how his administration has a strong dollar policy. There is a confidence builder.

<p>Bush and Cheney represent our political past and that is not a good story. But our political future may be even more bleak. An all hat no cattle Texas governor may be looked upon fondly after one of these idiot Washington insider Senators named Obama, Clinton or McCain take a term or two.

According to this video they evidently call it Le Big Mac in France. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLtwFugudZE

I am glad your title did not include daytrader or scalpers because by definition us daytraders or scalpers do not hold positions overnight and for that reason we are always belittled by the real traders who are a class above us for holding over night thereby always being rewarded by the wisdom...

<p>If brokers were on shaky ground in the first place, it could be enough to make their problems visible for everyone to see. I am thinking of ETrade in particular. I wonder if there was anyone using margin who tried to trade BSC and got turned down?

I made a mistake reading my charts, the futures were down 53.20 on the open that day, it was the next day they opened down 37.90.

I keep a record of what the S&P Futures are at at the open. The lowest I have recorded is 37.90 on 1/22/2008. I did not trade the open that day because I generally do not trade numbers that I have never seen before.

I do not put much stock in what Cramer says, but I did agree with him on Friday when he said the common stock holders of BSC were screwed, I did not realize how quickly that would become apparent.

To use a sports analogy to underscore your point, in basketball there are shooters and there are scorers. Shooters sometimes fall in love with their shot and look to shoot when they are allowed to shoot the shot they want. Scorers on the other hand are usually good shots but they are looking to...

I think anger and temper can be managed and used in such a way as to be effective and productive. In order for anger to be effective, it needs a human object. Although anger and temper are parts of my personality, I cannot use them in trading because there is no human receiver of the anger that...

I LOVE to trade. That said, I do not love it so much that I care to trade much more than a couple of hours a day.