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    Trade The News

    newstrike is trying to recruit for hold brothers. i signed up a few weeks ago and get a nice coy call how they can improve the service and bamm he goes in a recruiting spell. he emailed me offering me a good deal. hey nothings free. but yes there speed is excellent but there's long periods with...
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    question for guys doing 500k trades a year

    there's no penalty. the truth is the irs has never changed its format. it just clarified it's changed nothing and the rules still are to show every line. i think this rule is made to prevent part timers from claiming trader status to be honest. the irs knows if you do 100k trades you're there...
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    question for guys doing 500k trades a year

    this is mostly for retail guys. are you showing every trade on your sch d this year? a few trader cpa's are trying to say you need to show every trade as the irs doesn't want 1 line accounting anymore. i say tough crap it's almost impossible to show 500k trades. if it becomes a hassle i'll...
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    Problems with Transact Today?

    yeah but that for 375 r/t's a month. if you do 200 it comes out to $4.50 or more as they still charge you the $400 no matter what
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    Problems with Transact Today?

    what are transacts commissions now?didn't they raise them in the last 10 months or so?
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    Another Bear calling for a meltdown

    he's the only bear left in the world. bill fleckenstein has been bearish for 10 straight years and has never ever been bullish since the 80's on us stocks. him and david tice are the 2 only perma bears left on earth. and both have been wrong for so long they're laughed at and ridiculed on tv and...
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    401(k) Account Hacked & Vaporized In An Instant - $180,0000

    without the token does ib guarantee against fraud like sch and etrade? what is ib's policy toward fraud?
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    Total for 2006.

    these single guys in nyc or new jersey got to be be paying 60k or more 200k or income. for one many are in offices and have no expenses plus most are single with no overhead and few writeoffs plus the 10 or 11% new state and local tax.
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    Prop Structure for Taxes

    don you mean at the end of the year i submit a sheet thats says i spent 2k on software,3k on rent,$600 on phones right? your people aren't submitting every single bill are they? i'd think they give you a total for the year of each expense.i'm just curious how gs accounts for these expenses? when...
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    Prop Structure for Taxes

    don what do you mean your traders submit all expenses? you're saying if you have a remote trader he submits all his expenses from his cable modem to his mag subscriptions to his quotes? so he gives you a total expense # and you deduct it? what about home office exp?is that netted out? so on the...
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    professional career vs. trader

    i know many dentists and i live in a big city and i think averaging 230k is bs. overal all dentists avg max 150k a year
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    House of Cards ready to fall

    lol the same people said this today also. so just like all the black friday hype people talking out of both sides of there mouth. as i recall these same people hyped black friday then shut there mouth. consumer spending will tank in january Monday December 25, 10:14 am ET By Anne...
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    Change of Calculation Methodology of US Retail Sales

    it's all lies. 90% or retailers reported very disappointing same store sales in nov then we have this up 1%. more crap from the gov't to keep the bubble going
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    Dow Jones Industrial Weightings

    thats because its $ weighted and not cap weighted. so a higher price stock like mo falls 10% has almost 4 times the effect as a ge falling 10%. look at pfe the other week falling $4. even though it fell like 18% mo would have had to fall $14 to have the same effect.
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    Texas Instruments cuts forecast

    things getting really wild and wierd and now we have bby missing bad. i've counted over 40 warnings the last 4 days or 10 times this time last year. its obvious earnings growth is heading down but wall street could care less and wants to party on as evidenced by txn being up this am
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    I am convinced that Trading is the best Job

    mike all i want to know is were do you work making 6 figures trading much of the day and posting almost all all day AS I WANT A JOB THERE. jesus just think if you spent all your time working you'd make 300k a year
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    I am convinced that Trading is the best Job

    thats very smart michael the reality is most guys on here trading for a living have either been doing it a long time or are very young and have small living expenses. i've seen very very few guys who mid life age 40 or so with a family and 7-10k expenses a month that can start from scratch and...
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    Bulls have the definitie edge over the next 6 months

    all these bullish and bearish notes are scams. these are meant to get responses. all these crazy notes the past few months should be on the chit chat board
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    HLYS IPO Anybody??

    its showing 35-45 right now
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    Santa Clause Rally=Much Higher=More Records

    i think we see 14k by march and 16k by year end 2007. this is 5 times stronger than 1999. i've gone 200% long the last few months and will not sell period. i dare the market to show me it can drop
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