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Did you mention you have traders who trade options for ECN Rebates? I would like to try something like that because I churn lots of weeklies using different routes and some routes get filled faster than others, that's a fact. Here's a weird trade I had last year, I am long a stock via options...

Robert, why do some brokerages treat women badly? They got vicious with my partner a few years ago and so did the data feed company even though she knew more about their product than they did. Which data-feed company do you use for your firm and are you a clearing house yourself?

What's wrong with us? I had a dream last night I was long 10,000 Apple June 2015 Calls and I am arguing on the phone with my brokerage "June AAPL Options are Expired!" They said "we can just roll them over to next June for a small fee!" The Nasdaq Level 2 or Super Montage was weird in my dream...

I was curious if you have ever dumped a Brokerage (My Track) or data-feed provider you found to be either nasty or rude on the phone? There were several hags at one brokerage who bothered me and data-feed providers some that treated me like dirt, changed over to someone new quickly and they...

Prado, VN returned their capital many times over throughout the years instead of trying to manage something too big like the Fidelity Magellan Mutual Fund that had over $100 Billion during its height. How badly the Magellan performed is on record because of its size it moved big stocks when...

Thank you Market-Surfer for doubling something I've been writing about since VN blew-up in 1998 on Yahoo's Message Boards. I bought his first book "The Education of a Speculator" and fell in love with VN and all his cool anecdotes about life, his father and swimming." I am a long distance...

Last year one of the kind members on Elite posted a video about a rich Trader who decided he would pony up the capital to for several newbies in the United Kingdom and teach them how to trade. If you recall almost nobody who joined his firm made any money and realized how hard it is to sit...

Sorry, my bad! I agree Mr. Paulson is brilliant and its possible BOFA's Analysts are worried their going to get sued and "get taken to the shed with the proverbial Cherry Tree Switch!" because the Public is too stupid to think for themselves, they need to blame everyone else for their bad...

The moral of the story is to keep a balanced position of cash to equity, a quality very few of us can actually implement since we all want to secretly own the World without anyone noticing we perfected trading :) Mtrader, your insights are true, how many traders I've met who say they make...

I think this article on the TheStreet along with Victor's Daily Speculations finally will answer the original Op-Ed post, "How did Victor Lose his Capital?". His version makes sense, I know someone who was there when George Soros got mutilated on his Futures Contracts, a first hand version said...

MS, did you ever hear about VN being the first chink in Refco's armor? For newbies they can look up Refco and MF Global, interesting counter from Victor showing his fund had nothing to do with Refco, their own incompetence. On Wall Street more lies and myths gain traction than truth, here's a...

Wiki's info on Victor shows a huge Alpha, he was one of the best when his method worked well. We hear stories of people getting bored like Benjamin Graham who supposedly mastered the Market and found no joy, I wonder if Victor ever got bored after decades of winning and living like a god...

Bank of America's research analysts have finally been heard by BOFA's Upper Echelon, financial planners and wealth advisors are not allowing any clients to invest in Paulson's Hedge Funds. Paulson manage's over $20 Billion, interesting why CFAs from BOFA have pushed so hard to dump BOFA's...

Once you get good at day trading you transition to swing-trading and position-trading as your stock or options continually behave. It's a craving for action and stupidity that blow's up peoples accounts. If your buddy survived eight years, as asked by others, how much did he spend on living...

If you want to see a group of people suffering from Asperger's, attend a big chess tournament, they flock to chess like no other sport. They can remember their games from 30 years ago, all 63 moves or more but relationship and socially many have great problems acting normal. They would make...

What's the best and worst fill you've gotten on a Market or Limit Order?

I tested two different Brokers, one got me $.19 extra on 19 contracts, the other costed a big spread. The little Brokers make their bank selling that order routing, IB save's you cash and reduces your rates depending how much you trade.

When will you ever learn a cheap trade is not a cheap trade? If your broker can get you $.03 per contract on a spread of $1.20 x $1.34 instead of paying $1.34 all the time, what's cheaper? Paying $.03 x 50 contracts is $150.00 price improvement or $.45x50 vs $.35x50+ $.03x50 contracts since...

How many Hedge Funds do you think could compete with Victor during the Iran Crisis, Gulf War 1, Asian and Japan Real Asset and Stock Bubble (1989), add in a Fed fighting inflation by moving rates to 10+%, it was not chance how he made bank. Add in the US Stock Market Meltdown in 1987 and the...

I own his two books and read each twice, one is a man whose shoes grew too big for him and the second was a financial styled "Tuesday's with Morrie", both contained valuable information every trader needs to reflect on.' Active Trader kept Vic and Laura less than a year, other Trader's Sites...