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    Break Even Trades

    Does anyone else think that the reason why 50% retracements are so common is that traders like to break even? They double down and exit at break-even.
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    Why traders get no respect

    While I agree with what you have said, it only proves that you can't (or are highly unlikely to) be happy/loved etc.etc.blahblah without money. That does not mean that any amount of money will be able to guarantee health, buy love etc.etc.blahblah. In other words: Without money, there is...
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    ECN Rebates

    With one important difference: You don't lose anything but money if you get caught under the "bulldozer".
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    Why traders get no respect

    But in both cases, there is a good reason why a process takes some time, and there is the hope of seeing good results by giving the individual situation the required time.
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    Why traders get no respect

    Let's see, here are a few other "professions" that don't provide any goods or services: Anyone who does "preventive maintenance". For example, I buy a used car for $5k and drive it for a couple of years until it breaks down, then I buy a new one. Total cost $2,500 per year. My friend...
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    Why traders get no respect

    Interesting post. Reading what I utter here on ET, one might thing I am an incredible ass. That might be true, but I love to tutor kids as well. You would be surprised at how patient I can be.
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    Is NYSE Price Improvement fair ?

    When I trade listed stocks, I often put limit orders in and let them sit there for minutes or even hours. I never do that with four letter stocks. If my order is not executed within a few seconds, I usually cancel it.
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    Why traders get no respect

    I don't know about you, but I was not fucking anyone in the 80s.
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    Why traders get no respect

    Have you actually observed that fact? Where I live, I can witness first hand how the American consumer is holding up despite of a recession. I guess they just put more and more on their credit cards or refinance their homes or something, but they still get a new Mercedes and 128 inch LCD TV...
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    Half Hour Volume in the ES

    Not necessarily. All you will be getting is some data. Why should I ask more for it than any employer would pay me to do a similar kind of search and low key programming job?
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    Half Hour Volume in the ES

    $4995 USD payable in advance.
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    Half Hour Volume in the ES

    It's just a wild guess, but you could be observing the phenomenon called trading.
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    Track Trade

    That depends on how you define "ticket" and "commission".
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    Why traders get no respect

    It's true that the majority of the human population is like that almost everywhere, but there are lots of countries where they are not proud of it.
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    Why traders get no respect

    Never underestimate the stupidity of the average human! Seriously, you have business cards? What do they say, "securities liquidity provider"?
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    Why traders get no respect

    Thank you. Always doing my best to entertain while at the same time trying to slip in some perspective.
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    Why traders get no respect

    There are things money can't buy (as we all know from the MasterCard commercial), so just to be on the safe side, maybe one should say "money can buy everything I want" because the person you are addressing might long for irrelevant or false ideals like truth, love, genuine beauty, wisdom, a...
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    daily expectations

    Is that a guarantee?
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    Why traders get no respect

    This is America. Girls don't care whether you speak 20 difficult languages or cannot even form a single correct English sentence, they don't care if you are a doctor, professor, General of the Army, CEO, they don't care how small you thing is or how many seconds you last in bed, they don't give...
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    IB disable your account?

    Interesting analysis. And the reason you are posting this in the thread about a clerical error is ...?
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