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    Need a Job in Chicago

    The facts are this: 1. I'm not going to find a prop job with salary . . sure I could start trading with a firm and no draw, but I need to pay for school (night classes). I went to a state school. I'm going to grad school but I know the chances of finding a paying job is small. Right now I...
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    Need a Job in Chicago

    I'm moving to Chicago next week and I need a job clerking . . . I've got a great resume but haven't had any luck searching online. I'm willing to work for minimum wage . . all hours . . . overninght . . whatever it takes. Please PM or post with any leads or suggestions. I've got...
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    5K to 5 BILLION

    in the 24th year you'll have 2.5 billion to invest in one company you expect to double in the next twelve months. . after you fully invest 2.5 billion . . .and then on top of that you have to get out. THat also applies for year 23, 22, 21 and so forth all the way down to a reasonable size...
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    Free automated trading platform, for IB

    It's been over a month since you posted! You've got us anticipating the release date? or did we incur a problem?
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    Dow 14000

    That would be cool if you could get the gig at CNBC. Did you factor in the value of the dollar vs. other currencies?
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    Chess

    that makes three of us. You guys want to play sometime on Yahoo!?
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    Quantiative programming tutorial VBA Excel, c++ etc.

    I don't know, must have been a problem within my Excel. . I reopened the file I posted and it worked fine . . . I'm going to build a little more on it.
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    Index Straddles Vs. VIX Call Options

    sorry about deleting my other post. VIX is the volatility of the S&P. I'm not sure about delta-nuetrality.. You could buy pure VIX or VXN futures . . you would be long volatility.
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    Pre-Market Tests

    Is there a way to get pre-market data? I'm trying to figure out a way to test FairValue vs. Futures over a period of time. A co-worker right now is doing a forward test, but this seems like a clunky way of doing. We can't find a vendor with pre-market data points to build the tests around.
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    C++ , Visual basic?

    not ten years, come on. you're looking at five years.
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    C++ , Visual basic?

    If you do a google search you'll come across tonnes of stuff focused on beginning programming. You could buy a book too but you can do tonnes of stuff on the web. It takes a lot of work to learn enough to actually accomplish something towards trading. The timetable depends on how old you...
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    C++ , Visual basic?

    Yeah they are used to import data over the internet to aid in judging trades . . . There are trading jobs out there that don't require programming. It helps though if everybody can back up there own work . . that way the firm isn't paying out tonnes of money in overhead.
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    What School Now?

    take night classes
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    Its not wallstreet news but....

    7million * 90% != 35million
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    What is the best realtime scanner/filter?

    I would start with TradeStation
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    Anybody using IE 7...

    can I just stay with the IE I have now? how hard is it to upgrade?
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    Hedge Fund TV Show

    NDHD or something along those line. . . kernen was saying how no one in the studio got that channel and no one was going to watch. . I think I heard that the channel had something to do with a HDTV network . . I don't know.
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    Prop Firm near Austin Texas?

    WarriorFund : http://www.thewarriorfund.com/nonflash/index.html
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    I Need Help For Tomorrow Please

    tomorrow you can just sell the calls . . hopefully for a profit, unless you want to hold on to them and see if you can make a larger profit considering how it might keep climbing higher before friday . . anyways IF you did buy the calls, they can't be automatically excercised seeing how you...
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    OTM Early Exercise . . .

    Thanks guys . . . so if the calls are OTM, let's say stock's trading at $40 and I have sold $50 calls. For whatever reason I get excercised(I read the post, doesn't happen), my broker goes out and buys the shares with the margin I have on deposit, and then goes to the option contract holder...
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