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Its people like you buying corn who are driving up tortilla prices. Why do you hate tortillas? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_tortilla_march :D :D :D

Enron: You have 1 cow. It dies. You sell 10,000 raffle tickets for $10 each where the winner gets a cow. You draw a winner and give him his dead cow. He complains. You give him his $10 back and pocket $99,990.

PKX is another nice metals play. Korean steel co.

ACH Chinese Aluminum. What else could one want?

Did you consider anything in the oil article? SU? CNQ? Anybody? BUELLER?

My take is that going from broker to trader is like going from car salesman to NASCAR driver. Sure both deal with cars, but in two different ways. That said, it doesn't mean it can't be done. Being a broker is totally about sales. Many brokers really don't know that much about the market...

Thanks guys. Does anyone know if you buy the entry level software, can you upgrade it later on? Or is the Builder program considered a whole new purchase?

No one's used Trading Blox?

Read Liar's Poker, it covers him extensively.

Does anyone trade at Echo? Is it a good place to start out? Do they offer training or is it pretty much self directed?

Does anyone have experience with Trading Blox? I see the gentleman who developed it posts here and is held in very high regard. 1 What are the differences between the versions? 2 How much do you pay for datafeeds and where do you get them? 3 Is it easy to use? 4 Are you able to...

If you owned a stock for approx 4 years and reinvested the dividends, and then sold it, do you need to put each cost basis of dividend reinvestment on the Schedule D or is it OK to use an average cost basis of all the div reinvestments? Thanks.

FullyArticulate, I was thinking the exact same thing about long beans, short corn. If I was a farmer, I would certainly plant corn over beans if I had the choice. However, look at this chart of long nov beans / short dec corn- it seems to suggest the opposite. I'm new to reading spread...

Michael what do you think about this: http://www.softwarenorth.net/cot/current/charts/CL.png Commercial hedgers (who should know the market better than anyone) have built to a net long position. This has to be bullish for oil. What's your take?

Farmers are going to be planting for spring soon. With corn so high, do you think most will plant corn rather than beans? What is your take on long beans, short corn trade?

Stoned- a couple of Barrons roundtable guys like John Neff mentioned NBR, and that's up as least 2pts since mention as well. ps where's your report on this weeks Barrons? You're late! :)

Whats the manager charging you? If he's giving you market like performance and charging you 2%, you can move it to an index fund and save yourself about 1.8% or about $3600.

http://www.softwarenorth.net/cot/current/charts/CL.png The commercial hedgers have gone net long oil. Does anyone use COT reports with success?

Does anyone have any thoughts on Corn right now? Looking at a chart, it looks like its going to fill the gap back to 375 or so. However this looks like to "obvious" of a trade right now. Any thoughts?

Can mini contracts be traded on IB? Also does anyone know if there are mini coffee, sugar and cotton contracts? Thanks.