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if a hurricane hits new york, what would be the economic impact. i was reading that the nyse would be shut down for months, if not longer, if a similar situation like katrina. Even cat 1 would be incredibly devastating. http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/12908/

go with sierra and dtn, pretty good pairing. I use sierra dtn, and metastock and quotecenter. I like using meta because Im an oldtimer dont want the hastle of changing it. But i like sierra because its so excel easy to use and easy to program stuff in. But yeah serra/dtn, all in shouldnt...

lol well it wont effect me Im canadian :P, if anything it would benefit canada b/c we would be beyond the range of american laws.

I was wondering what will happen to wallstreet and wallstreeters when within the next 10 years another economic crisis hits. This paul guy thinks wallstreet will be no more. think of this aig, lehman, etc people were threatened with death, anybody connected with them, goldman people had tours...

Hey guys I was wondering what you guys think of opening the markets an hour earlier,*normal* hours. there has been alot of talk about it lately,about taking back some market share from europe and asia. There's always talk, but wouldnt it just kill us west coasters.

the thing is I like to talk to a person on a phone if Im doing a complicated order,or if Im excercising options. but yeah Ib is really good if your just trading, but if your doing complicated orders or anything that you want done that needs upstairs work you need a good person broker.

This market watch commentator actually makes sense. No matter what if climate change is man made or natural you must be prepared for the effects. There are some people no matter what if you tell them something bad will happen will do nothing to be prepare for them, till after its too late ...

I dont know for the american side of tos, but the canadianside, they already switch to tdwaterhouse canada clearing. so if you short with them,it suxs.

Holy crap i never knew jjc was bipolar. It explains alot. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/finding-correlations-in-work-and-private-lives-2009-08-05?pagenumber=2

hopefully they will start cracking down on other stuff, you have to admit, this is just the most obvious and least profitable.

All of this goldman bashing kind of reminds me of what happened to microsoft. Microsoft was bashed from all sides, and eventually the more socialist nations got to them. Will goldman eventually be brought down to mediocrity because of all of boo haha...

well to big to fail without significant political power. Meaning either they dont have friends in treasury or friends in key political seats. But I just dont get why they just dont tear down these companies if there to big to fail, make them smaller, if all of these companies dont want the...

Its a simple solution. If a company is to big to fail, why doesnt the government just take it apart. mandate the company cant reach this size because it would be a systemic risk. If a company like goldman sachs or gm is to big to fail, just split it up into smaller companies...

i was wondering who are the worst anaylsts out there? I personally think the guy at canlyon securites for the airline industry suck. For every airline that in the last 5 years that went bankrupt, 3 months before he kept telling people no bankruptcy. It was an outlier event. Then they go...

I was told by my friends that goldman has all the money, access to the best technolgies, analysts, government contacts, lawyers, information, flow of information, contacts around the world,access to industry insiders, and the ability to see what their own clients trade, that it would be insane...

I was wondering if tdwaterhouse is switching tos to their own clearing firm? Td has an ok clearning service, but tos has a really good one. The tos customer service rep doesnt know yet, but for people who had this kind of situation where one broker bought out another, how are customers treated?

I was wondering how this would effect the markets. There has been talk of raising margin on futures up the stock type of margins. Since every market is connected, that would represent 100's of billions of dollar in cash disappearing from the markets,if not trillions. If they raise margin on...

This might sound naive question but why cant the government just print money or do other quantative moves and just dont report it. They do it all the time in the military, they seperate their budget into white, grey and black book budgets. As we all know, when it comes to national security and...

It use tobe the hotest thing for traders for breaking news,is it still worth the cost, or it kinda went downhill?