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    Abuse amongst traders

    Abuse goes on in these forums because of passive-aggressive people who don't have the balls to say things to a person's face. If these conversations were going on in person, I guarantee a lot of the crap that goes on here would not happen. People may still think the rude things that they do...
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    CyberTrader

    IB endorsement in 3...2...1...
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    Schonfeld Opus Trillium

    they are but they do different things...
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    Top 30 traders under 30

    I'd like to meet Darren...unfortunately I couldn't eek out a living trading if I had Warren Buffett wispering in my ear every day, so meeting me would be useless.
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    Top 30 traders under 30

    I'm not gonna say they the Pairco guy doesn't make good cheese, but I know a 26 yo personally who brought home 600K from a prop firm this year, after a 50% split. The guy bought himself a Jeep Liberty to drive, lives in a 1200.00 a month apartment, and pays his Mom's and sister's bills...
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    Series 7 and a Financial Mindset

    I hate to admit it, but I am terrible at tests and I passed. The best thing I found was practice tests on the computer. Those put you in the most realistic environment to learn.
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    GOOG - Yay or Nay

    Bite me.
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    GOOG - Yay or Nay

    Big brass ones. Good play.
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    'Fess up - who got blown out yesterday???

    I got a play out of some Schwab 12.50 calls and got out before the stock got halted. It was my best trade in months.
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    ClearView--Business Intelligence for the Financial Markets

    To the best of your knowledge, are 30 second charts the closest to real-time tick charts available?
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    ClearView--Business Intelligence for the Financial Markets

    This should be good.
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    Trying to figure out a platform to use

    Look at Couponjohn, 40 posts worth of beginner questions and he has become a grizzled, surly ET vet taking shots at people.
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    Mock Stock Account?

    http://game.marketwatch.com/Home/default.asp · Long and short equity positions · Mutual funds · Market, limit (day or GTC), stop order types · Margin functionality · Accounts in U.S. dollars · Accounting for flat commission charge · Accounting for interest on uninvested cash...
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    Margin Call on an IB IRA account (Need Suggestions)

    Not true...lots of firms will let you trade any option strategy not requiring margin, like long straddles, long calls, long puts, etc. That example you give of some "dr." is what's wrong with the brokerage business today...it's like walking into a casino, dropping 1 million on the craps...
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    Before hours?

    Duly noted, I retract my insensitive post.
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    I closed my IB account

    They insult you on the way out....nice.
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    Brokerage Firm

    Call the company's investor relations dept. they will let you buy one share without a brokerage fee in most cases.
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    CyberTrader SMART (dumb) routing: 18 cents slippage on stop to cover 100 RIMM!

    I noticed their OTC BB executions will rape you dead. Does that count?
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    What do prop shops offices look like?

    I am sorry, but if you are writing little notes to remind yourself of your rules, you're in the wrong racket.
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    Need series 3 to trade prop futures?

    Does any firm require the 3 to trade futures prop?
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