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I remember a strange situation 3 years ago, when I was a junior derivative trader in Frankfurt, Germany. To that time there were advertising banners of Nortel almost everywhere- train station, bus stop, airport- and I was just wondering why they did that much advertising in Germany, because...

"Best trading patterns" from the almighty legend Mr. Laurence A. Connors. To admit I sometimes lack the patience for the perfect timing of "the double - volume market top method", but it is possible, ask Laurence.

Hi Optionplayer, EXPE was also a profitable short play for me. If you can withstand extreme short squeezes , you will end these trades profitable. Regarding Ebay I also expect a further push, as you say, some guys know something. But these guys will take there profits all about at the...

I'm not short the commodity gold. I was short the stock "gold", but the trade is already done- made some bucks. Anyway, good luck. :p

Actually I'm long the qqq and short ebay to make a spread. In IMHO ebay has held up a long time, maybe too long. It reminds me of NVDA, which not too long ago was priced to hell and it seemed it would never come back. Time will tell.

great company, just a bit too pricey, at least for the moment. I would also expect a stock split, chart would suggest such a thing.

There were lots of arguments how solid this company is. Take a look at the chart and see what happened. What goes up like a rocket, often falls like a heavy stone. IMHO.

Totally agree with you. Also trading Fdax and Estx50, but I just do 1-5 trades a day, but almost every day profitable. Greetings to Poland.

You are right. Yes, this KKD thing was really a damm short I will always remember, but in the end it eventually came down. Have done hundreds of short sales during my career as a trader and what I've learned is that one has to have enough money to withstand any potential short squeeze. So, for...

Gold falls like a stone after it went straight up to heaven. So I cover part of my postion and take some profits. This thing just went wild and now it cools off.

First, thanks for the reply. If margin would be 5% of the whole position it would be fine. How do you calculate this percentage? Asked IB helpdesk, but they couldn't give me an answer. So I just tried by doing it, and as mentioned before, my margin requirements rose by about more than$ 3000 for...

I just shorted 1 MSFT June Contract and bought 100 MSFT stock at the same time. I am absolutely market neutral therefore, but IB requires approximately $ 3600 in margin for both positions. So the spread makes no sense at all. Am I doing something wrong?

To make things clear. I'm not saying that this company is a fake or worth next to zero. Maybe it is a solid company with sound management. But, my technical systems are telling me that this thing is way overbought. In addition they don't have earnings, relating to the internet IMHO, which...

I'm short and I'm willing to short much more of this stock, the more I'm forced to sell additional pieces, the higher the total profit will be in the end. This stock has no P/E, just an operation somewhere in Africa. Some of these highflying goldfield stocks are just the same kind of bubble...

Yes now it is available for shorting, some days ago it wasn't. Anyway, thanks for the reply. So now I'm short this stock and see what's happening.

anyway, happy trading, wild.

Let me guess, you are mickey from adblue, aren't you? Da guckste Alter, wa?

Are you kidding or is this offer for real? $2000 shouldn't be a problem.

heilbronn refers to my hometown, www.heilbronn.de, which is famous for its wine. Nor me, neither my hometown has anything in common with whatever you wanna say. Yes, I'm a m.f. German and maybe others hate me for that, but I am what I am. And if it comes to trading, it doesn't matter where...

I'm trading European and US- markets as well. Due to the fact that I trade both markets my performance is definitely better than I would trade just one market. Can trade Eurostoxx Future almost every day successfully, use very tight stops. Also trading stocks, intraday and on a swing basis and...