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Thanks.

No, it wasn't directed at you. I've seen people here praising IB and can't understand why, even if they're "happy with IB."

"free cash"

I'll follow-up on my remark. Commodities should not be traded without an awareness of their fundamentals. With commodities, the technicals always, in the end, reflect what is happening fundamentally. Again: Don't lose your a**.

top traders, "even Hershey?" I'll have you know that Jack is onto something. Have you been alive the last two days and seen what the markets have to offer? Capital extraction, that is the name of the game.

The problem is that by the time you've tweaked your indicators, the market may have changed.

You guys need to think about a "speculative book." It's like a sliding window on the 5-deep book. I gave you a freebie.

Buying the homebuilders? Buying the lenders? What new world is this?

Don't lose your a** for the "technical"s. Commodities aint always what they seem, technically speaking.

Aint it wondrful?

Get your heads on straight, people. This real estate bust is for real.

Days like today and yesterday you should short as aggressively as you go long when the bull is running. Some days the bear is let loose! There is no other way to make money.

Akhnoten, you gotta know you got a problem when you're tweaking the indicators.

You gotta learn something. In the market there are what is known as "bag holders." Those are the people left long when the market drops. Those are the people who bought the rah-rah.

One thing I cannot understand: Why would a trader ever praise his broker? Is the trader thankful that the broker let him make some money?

Maybe busted out. It aint easy to post when you lost beaucoup.

DOW 14000. Did that. Time to do something new.

Don't hope for a recovery. The comps will kill you. Some people have to sell. When they sell for less than the last comp, there is a new comp to compare the other houses against.

Yeah, "providing liquidity" gets their buddies out, gives them a bid to sell into. Your tax dollars at work. Sell the bounce.

Believe it or not, I once had a problem where one of IB's default fonts didn't exist on my system and just got squares where the letters should be. So, I think, if I remember correctly, I right clicked on the field and found that I could change the font. I don't know if that will work with the...