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    Jokes 2

    Going Out with Your First Love Six retired Irishmen were playing poker in Seamus O'Leary's apartment when Paddy Murphy loses $500 on a single hand, clutches his chest and drops dead at the table. Michael O'Conner looks around and asks, "Oh, me boys, someone has got to tell Paddy's wife...
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    bob bright

    Bob Bright - still the trading and poker pro at 70. Another trader's opinion of BT's Bob Bright Robert Bright AKA "Bob" World Series of Poker > Robert (Bob) Bright
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    High frequency traders literally printing money!!! LITERALLY PRINTING MONEY!!!!

    Traders, Crunching Numbers, Question Circuit Breakers' Impact May 26, 2010, 12:04 p.m. EDT By Kristina Peterson NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Market participants rattled by the May 6 plunge initially hailed the stock exchanges' proposed circuit breakers. But after crunching the numbers, some...
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    High frequency traders literally printing money!!! LITERALLY PRINTING MONEY!!!!

    If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em "Successfully Implementing Killer High Frequency Strategies" "The Most Up-To-Date Overview of the Present and Future of High-Frequency Trading" Past Attendees (Your Competition) 1st global - Abrams Associates - Acceptance Capital - ACTIV...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Take yer pick for ideas from a few of these multi-monitor desk setups uh, re-click an image to go back to main page... In addition to the YouTube Multi(Dual)-Monitor Page, there's tons more interesting and practical multi-setups also listed here via Google (yes, I actually posted this) -...
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    High frequency traders literally printing money!!! LITERALLY PRINTING MONEY!!!!

    The Machines That Ate the Market Bloomberg Businessweek May 20, 2010 “… Hysterical Thursday did no apparent long-term harm. Some venerable stocks dropped to a penny apiece before bouncing back. Overall, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index declined 6.2 percent, from 1,136.16 to...
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    Who will replace Rumsfeld ?

    The reason Rumsfeld won't be going anywhere soon - and why Ms. Rice probably understood that from the get go: Rumsfeld's protege (from the Nixon and Ford Administrations) Cheney (a former Secretary of Defense himself under Prez Bush I) backing Rumsfeld to stay on as Defense chief. Condi will...
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    Real Estate is dying? Investment-wise what is the next Asset Class Du Jour?

    "Camp Pendleton is committed to operating and maintaining the world's finest amphibious training facility. With more than 125,000 acres of varied terrain and more than 17.1 miles of shoreline, Camp Pendleton is one of the Department of Defense's busiest training installations..." So, for...
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    Austin, Texas traders

    Here's most of the current Elite Trader group. Why not also contact them through the Austin Traders Yahoo Group?... There's some pretty sharp trader/programmer-types residing in the capitol of the Lone Star State - a few are also regular Elite Trader contributors, and at least a couple...
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    Real Estate is dying? Investment-wise what is the next Asset Class Du Jour?

    Hmmm.... 70% of Nevada's population is squeezed into a valley in its southern tip - the burgeoning Las Vegas area - affectionately known as...uh, oh...Sin City... ...and already with 65,000 home sales to date this year... :D
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    Real Estate is dying? Investment-wise what is the next Asset Class Du Jour?

    "...Pulte Homes garnered a considerable amount of local attention earlier this year after it increased home prices in a Summerlin subdivision [west-northwest Vegas] by as much as $142,000 in less than two months..." The above teaser excerpted from the article below is just one of many...
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    Anyone have positive results using Trade Ideas streaming alerts?

    In this case, I would imagine :D = positive outlook, based on Trade Ideas' history of being highly trader-input-responsive... Reid, you and others looking forward to same, I see.
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    Real Estate is dying? Investment-wise what is the next Asset Class Du Jour?

    Yes, because insurance companies have a longer investment time frame, they are usually the first to buy and hold the largest outlying land tracts in the path of growth - whether as a developer-partner owner, or to eventually sell to bank-financed developer/builders as the regional population...
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    Real Estate is dying? Investment-wise what is the next Asset Class Du Jour?

    Hmmm... We'll have to see how that example plays out. Anyone else have similiar economic indicators related to mortgage money?
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    Poker and the Beginning Trader

    OK, I'll buy into the premise that poker may be the new pastime. Why not? It beats one's once-loved baseball, and the proliferation of the now-pervasive pseudo reality shows - hands down. (That time would better spent actually playing at the poker tables, or observing and learning the basics...
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    Stern: "Laker's a lock"

    Darrell Dawkins - one of the original NBA bad boys....
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    Arnold Schwarzenegger & Enron

    This now eight month old sensationalist newspaper smarmy pap belongs in Chit Chat - as you already knew before you posted it, Harry...
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    CNBC's Bartiromo Leaving Morning Show

    Given her popularity, lovely Liz Ann may have been dashing from one financial show to another on that particular day. Who knows... Don't be too hard on her... You can drive some Cadillac models virtually forever.... :D She has a great smile like NY Times Wall Street financial writer...
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    Paris Hilton Sex Tape

    Oops! ....thought this was the Classifieds forum.... :D
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