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    New York City prop firms

    Recruiting traders is akin to recruiting athletes. profitability has to do with innate personality traits such as courage, patience, loss management, ability to control emotion, etc. there are milions of educational services on how to trade but so few succeed because you can't teach anyone to...
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    Technical Analysis = CRAP

    TA is just a tool. what isn't sold in books is the fact that profitability really comes from innate characteristics, such as risk taking, courage, patience, pain tolerance and loss management, etc. ie two people can take the same exact trade and have 2 totally different outcomes. i have never...
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    Anyone take/taking a job with Coastal Trade Securities?

    Your contribution may be locked, but any firm that is well capitalised can just give you back the capital from their own pocket.
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    The 98% Who Fail

    Casinos in vegas are always packed. Most people don't trade. they gamble.
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    Anyone take/taking a job with Coastal Trade Securities?

    If the firm has enough owner capital, they never enforce this.
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    Are you confident in Bubble ben bernanke?

    it's his beard. makes him look pedophiliac and untrustworthy.
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    The Surf Report--part 2

    attention seekers go into journalism and politics
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    Financial IQ - Mines 85, perhaps I need more education!

    guess you're not asian.
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    The Surf Report--part 2

    black or red roulette wheel. nice system
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    Trading and Dating/social status

    disagree. what is most important as a trader is what car you drive, where you live, how big your checking account is and how many expensive gifts you buy her. if all this checks out then she wouldnt give a shit if u piss on your monitors naked in your basement. vast majority of goldman guys...
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    Stimulus Needed for ‘Frustratingly Slow’ Recovery: Bernanke

    fed policy is like that film final destination. just delaying the inevitable as banks get too bigger to fail.
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    HFT vs Small Traders

    I'd say 10% of HFT's make. HFT's were what daytraders were to the investment community 15 years ago. In the beginning it's free money. At some point their strategies get diluted and self cannibalize when everyone enters that game. The markets reflect the times. The wealthy are becoming a...
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    HFT vs Small Traders

    Most HFT's do not make money either. They just make it annoyingly difficult for the minority who do make money on that short time frame
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    Prop firms - why the scum bag image?

    most props were not built by financial professionals with any real pedigree. Instead my experience is they're usually ex- russian refugees, ex hvac, insurance/car salesman or garment wholesalers.
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    Milton Friedman advocated Quantitative Easing to prevent the Great Depression

    these egomaniacs don't understand the business cycle and exacerbate them with silly monetary policies
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    Trading is boring!

    increasing size is like smoking weed.. do it and it's not boring anymore
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    Diamond Prices Jumping Along With Commodities

    diamonds are a scam commodity
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    Joe Montana goes down

    you love talking about other's misery. your life must be pretty miserable.
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    What is your opinion of HeadHunters?

    any job that profits off trafficking human labor is immoral. think cattle.
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    WallStreet - Money Never Sleeps - comments

    Why is hollywood hellbent on casting midgets, dwarves and david schwimmer lookalikes?
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