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    Question for Bloomberg Pro users...

    How is Bloomberg Professional service in terms of reporting realtime analyst upgrades/downgrades? Are they pretty fast? How difficult is it to weed through the tons of info coming across Bloomberg in order to discern the upgrades/downgrades from other news and act on them quickly? Does...
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    Why would successful traders join/stay in a prop firm?

    This is meant as an innocent question, because I've never been in a prop shop nor do I know anyone who has. But, if a trader was consistently successful, making $200K+/yr, and his account was large enough to finance his trading with the margin offered by regular retail brokers, is there any...
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    What's the fastest and SAFEST way.....

    By far one of the dumbest questions I've ever heard.
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    poker player tries his hand at futures trading

    I don't know why I did it, but I read through the entire Charlie Dow part of this thread. My conclusion is that Charlie sounds like a hack who feels like he needs to put a well educated newbie in his place and demands respect just because he's been trading for a few years (notice no mention of...
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    Doubledown on overlapping strategies?

    I have multiple systems that sometimes yield the same long/short call on the same stock. In those cases, should I go ahead and doubledown on that stock? On one hand, they are different strategies, so I should treat it as two distinct investments. On the other hand, I'm exposing myself more to...
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    Making Mad Money with Jim Cramer

    Not trying to be a wet blanket, but I just wanted to point out that the Nasdaq Composite was up 5.32% in the month of November, meaning that your performance of 7%+, while great, occurred in a month when the entire market was cranking. I'd be interested to see how your strategy performs during...
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    Earnings Surprise trading

    I looked at the idea some time ago, and did a comprehensive data analysis over almost a thousand ERs. My conclusion was that it was possible to extract a profit if you monitored the price action prior to the ER, because more often than not a stock that significantly trends in the day(s) prior...
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    motely fool says 95% onfday traders out in 6 months

    Any chance you can copy the article into this thread? I'd be interested in what else the article has to say.
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    Top 30 traders under 30

    Wait a minute. The guy's gonna make $350k this year and he's considered one of the top 30 under 30? I thought such a "prestigious" list would require a minimum of a few million. It's probably similar to the PGA money list -- The top ten make 80% of the money and the rest fight for scraps! :D
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    Any chance IB could be acquired?

    With all the consolidation going on, I wonder if this could happen, considering that IB appears to be one of the more popular brokers for active traders. If so, could this be good or bad for existing clients? Should I be worried?
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    Question about Centrino notebooks

    Is it possible to close a centrino-based notebook and still have it running (i.e., with Internet Explorer open and continuously connected to my wireless router)? I subscribe to a stock alert service that notifies me realtime, and I want to be able to carry my notebook in the closed position...
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