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Yes. You should contact them. I got Tony's book free in the 2002 Online Trading Expos at New York City. Maybe you can get a free copy too. :p

Greenspan made his famous speech regarding "Irrational Exuberance" in December 1996. Nasdaq reached its peak in March 2000. Does this mean that we shall have at least three more years of deflation?:p Come on. Look at the medical/health care costs, prices of gasoline, heating oils, housing...

I have not been paying much attention to tax increases by the Federal government. I do remember one thing: Before Reagan, the income of a graduate student working as teaching/research assistant at a US university is not taxable. Near the end of Reagan's presidency, it is. And it has been...

IMHO: In the corporate world, there are two major types of people, the bosses and the dogs. If you are neither a boss nor a dog, you will labelled as a “rebel”, aka, “non-team-player”. The bosses and the dogs will then try their best to make your life miserable. Unless one is good at...

Each brokerage firm has a procedure that is spelled out in your account agreement forms. The Options Clearing Corporation ("OCC") uses the 75 cent threshold for customer orders, but your firm may have a different threshold. Here is how The OCC describes it: EXERCISE BY EXCEPTION...

All three of Detroit's automakers have claimed dramatic quality improvements in recent years, but they continue to be hit by a disproportionately high number of vehicle recalls. © Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. Tue Apr 13, 2004 04:42 PM ET...

I have not called Dell Tech Support for a long time. I did call Time Warner Tech Support a while ago, regarding some problems of the Cable Modem. As expected, an Indian girls answered the phone. After getting rid of about 25,000 people between June 2000 and March 2003, Merrill Lynch finally...

The loan officers will say that you are too conservative. Instead, you should write tons of uncovered calls.:p

4/12/2004 10:54:25 PM NEW YORK, April 12 (Reuters) - The world's No. 2 personal computer maker, Dell Inc. (DELL) , said on Monday most of its employees are based outside the United States, as it expands in overseas markets. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, which derived about 36 percent of...

Hi, I bought a Dell Inspiron 7500 four years ago. It has been working flawlessly. The problem with Dell notebook is that the default configuration is really the absolutely minimum, that is, surfing the web is among the few things that it can perform well. Upgrading can be very expensive...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?postid=190026&highlight=qcom#post190026 :p

Also, some trades may be executed by mistake. A trader may have multiple brokerage accounts. He/She may enter one trade in one account to hedge another order executed in another account. :p

Yes. Those days were over. I am not sure I shall live long enough to experience another bubble economy. In 1999, my friends and I were constantly complaining about our compensations: salary too low, bonus too small, etc. In that year, one of my friends turned down an offer with an annual...

No. They were hired as TRADERS NOT Quants. I know the differences between the two. In 1999, the sign-in bonus for a programmer below VP level at Lehman and Goldman could be over $30,000. $200,000 per year was not a big deal.

It depends on the economy and your connections. One of my friends, who holds a Ph. D. degree from an Ivy League School, but no trading experience, joined a proprietary/quantitative trading team of an investment bank few years ago. They started him at $200,000 per year. Later, two of my...

If you stay in US for less than 183 days per year, the first $80,000 of earned income are not taxable. :p

Mandarin is the official language for People Republic of China. Don't underestimate the Chinese Communist Party. They can easily hold back China for another one or two decades. Sixty years of communism has destroyed all humanity there. All that left are corruption, propaganda and power...

Hi, Just out of curiosity. Why do the prop firms like listed stocks so much ? :confused:

Trading is a business. Do you have a business plan ? :)

Nonequity options are options that are not directly or indirectly related to a specific equity (stock). Most if not all publicly traded index options are nonequity options and get the 1256 tax treatment. :p