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    Nasdaq should be open 24/7

    There would be no action overnight, there would be no market. Overnight futures markets are made in asia/europe, like someone mentioned there's no reason they would risk making a market in some little U.S. company overnight
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    Zero to Low risk investments

    Hi. Guaranteed principal is not the same as guaranteed return. What happens when at the end of the year your buddies go "oops, didnt work, here's your principal though!" and I just lost ~3% due to inflation. Bye.
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    Pit Trading

    Traders are different than locals. Not to mention that not even all locals are profitable...
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    Zero to Low risk investments

    rofl i love you man
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    Pit Trading

    Technicals are for traders that sit at home and lose money. Pit traders make money off of order flow, as you said.
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    Typing Error Causes $3.5 Billion Trade for Company valued at $93 Million

    Limit down. (15%)
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    Positive expectancy to being long stocks.

    What happens when the U.S. is no longer competitive economically - it has been a global economic leader since ww2 *gasp* that's about how long equities have been hawked as an investment vehicle for the masses!
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    Closed-end Fund Income Investing

    So you have junk bonds as well as securities tied to mortgage obligations that are likely to be defaulted on in the case of a housing crash? No offence but that might be pushing it a little Regarding REITs, I stand corrected oc; never really touched them before
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    Closed-end Fund Income Investing

    How about this: JPC - Nuveen Preferred and Convertible Income Fund Share Price: $12.11 (12/05) NAV: $14.29 Discount: -15.26% Yield: 8.42% Personally, I lack the confidence you have in U.S. real estate continuing on it's merry way; for this reason I would look at alternatives to...
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    I have this dream...

    Everyone and they're broker don't move markets. Big bucks move markets, pension funds, mutual funds, the big hedgies, foreign banks, etc. As soon as futures start to spike, arbs would start snatching up equities. When equities spike, sellers come out in full force - you have to remember that big...
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    I have this dream...

    Like some people (such as 5yr) mentioned, this simply could not happen with derivatives of equities. This could be possible with less liquid (and more abstract) assets, such as CDS :cool:
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    best trading books ever

    fooled by randomness by taleb
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    NYSE-ARCA Merger

    Is no one else concerned with the fact that now we have to deal with partials on NYSE? This doesn't really concern people trading 200 shares at a time, but it will certainly be a pain in the ass when I'm trying to get filled on 5000
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    Hedge Funds

    Best. Thread. Ever.
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    Cost Of Carry

    FV = S [1 + (I - D)] Where "S" is the S&P 500 Stock Index. The ticker symbol is SPX and/or INX on most good data feeds. Where "I" is the amount of Interest paid to your banker or broker to borrow the money to buy all of the stocks in the S&P 500 Index. The...
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    Offer Standing, Unsure if I should take it

    From what I've heard, GHCO is a frickin zoo. The non-compete clause will not hold up in a court of law, regardless of what they tell you.
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    WTF! Why Bund Jump 30 Pts On Thurs AM?

    lol U.S. exchanges closed today?
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    LU...Why

    Track pays 0.002 for adding, INET pays 0.0009 for removing
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    Traders from RUSSIA...wake up

    Hey guys, born in Minsk living and trading from Michigan. Medveshonok, haha, clasni nickname
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    Predicting randomness

    Are you out of your mind?
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