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(1) Who is on the other side of your trade? Probably a professional trader, maybe a retail customer. (2) Your profit comes from the clearing corporation which debits the losing traders from the price your trade was filled at. (3) 9 traders can be "long" and 1 trader can be "short" in an illiquid...

You want to sell shorter-dated options, i.e. 1-to-3 months out, in order to benefit from time & volatility decay. January wouldn't be a good choice. Maybe the CME Miami Real Estate contract might be a decent correlated hedge. Check it out.

The basis-trade is tough because there's too much money and interest focused on it. The "rocket scientists" will always be a few steps ahead of you. Speculative trading will always have good potential if you have a decent trading method and good discipline to back it up. Instead of the basis...

If the "madam" has any politicians among her clientele in her black-book, nothing will happen.

There are 10 cities plus the overall index. You can go to futuresource.com and set-up a custom quote board and/or a chart window to keep an eye on them. The volume and open interest numbers are "scary". Appointments to trade the contracts are usually available around 12-noon(CST) when the other...

Take a look at the "noon balloon" AND the final 90 minutes of the session. You should find some consistancy during those time periods. If not, trade the open and then relax OR get a job.

He was long & wrong the Nikkei AND also had a huge short position in Japanese bonds and euro-yen(?) that also blew up in his face at the same time. If the trade had gone his way, he'd have become a hero before eventually blowing out.

(1) Do nothing. Hopefully, $350 won't affect your standard of living. (2) If you live within 30 miles of them, "take matters into your own hands in such a way that you'll never be caught by police". (3) Contact the state's attorney in the state you live in AND the state the company is located...

The correct answer is (i), 1974

(1) Do you even have $10,000 in your checking account? (2) What are the system results for the past 1, 2, and 3 years? Those results will psychologically "overshadow" what happened during the earlier years of the ten year history. (3) Any system that incorporates the late 1990's is attempting to...

The "old frontiers" are still very fertile. Wait until it's on sale for $1 in the "used" section.

Jesse Livermore Junior? If a rookie lost 30% of assets under management in one month, he'd be out of the business forever.

??........5,8,13 and 89!! Those are all fibbonacci numbers! Holy Caca!

When emerging markets become submerging markets, be careful!

Pabst-------You're "The Man". I only forecasted what you did on 2-6-06. I don't know how to copy old threads onto a new thread.

They've been trading for ~2 weeks. Volume is teeny-tiny.

Longer-term time-cycles are more persistent and reliable. I'm really, really hoping that the 4-year cycle culminates to the downside during September or October. Keep an eye on far-out-of-the-money index puts in August. We'll see what happens. Fibbonacci seems too arbitrary because there are too...

tradersaccounting.com, greentradertax.com, irs.gov. They might be of value.

Are you serious! The $4-level is an old double-top from January & April 2004. You know the old saying: "What was once resistance should now be support for awhile". Consider covering your short-position at $4.01.

Oh boy, let's see, the Dow will trade lower until ~11am CST and then move higher. We'll see what happens.