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imho, born talent is an olympic sprinter born with more fast twitch muscles because of his DNA a deaf person who can still create symphonies (Beethoven) a pianist who has perfect pitch a child with photographic memory a singer who has never taken vocal lessons but has a five octave range...

Acrary, Great stuff. I was wondering if you can share your views on systems that have a stable profit factor but unstable expectancy. Say for example a system has a stable profit factor year after year but the expectancy is declining. The number of trades is more or less the same every...

i see your point but i would say that a person's competitiveness and determination is very difficult to assess without really knowing the person. there's a difference between being talented and being competitive. a benchwarmer can be the most competitive and hard working person on his team...

if your plan is to get your foot into the door and then transfer to trading or ib, this will be a near zero probabliity way of doing it. the reason is because you will be viewed as a lowly operations and back office person. they will think you are inferior to them and not worthy of their...

up 11.9% this month.

if you go to GS ib you will not be able to trade your own money like some said. every time you make a trade, you'll need to fill out a form beforehand and have your managing director sign off on it, then maybe somone at the compliance department too. there will also likely be a holding period...

lol you are still agonizing over this? you started another thread about this a while back. obviously your heart wants the trading job, but your brain is telling you to take GS. i think you are posting here to find reasons to justify doing what you want to do instead of what you should do...

lol sledged way back when i was still in college i actually wanted to do the same thing. i didn't even live in new york at the time and i went all the way down to the NYSE to ask for an application to be a runner! i didn't even know anybody there. lol makes me laugh to think about it now...

the stock has is up 9 out of 10 days so far this year. If it closes up today (+2% today so far), it'll be 10 out of 11 days.

anyone buy this stock? up 10% for the year already.

how did you do in 2005?

I'm not really asking for people to teach me, I'm asking for people's opinion. Although if someone has something of value to teach I would certainly be interested in hearing it.

only thing that doesn't make sense there is that EPS has to be > $2. the absolute number really does not mean much. anyone else? also, please be more specific. what are the EPS and growth rates that suits you? how low of a relative P/E is low enough for you?

What type of opportunity fits your criteria?

take a look at Hurco (HURC). it's a Peter Lynch type of stock...boring industry and no analyst coverage, but has high growth, low valuation and low institutional ownership. actually there's 1 analyst covering the company, but he's from a generally unknown brokerage house. the company...

why wouldn't everyone switch to this new unbundled pricing? does this pricing structure benefit traders who trade <300k shares per month? the table says the commission for <300K volume is $0.0035 per share which is still cheaper than $0.005 per share under bundled pricing. thanks.

lol afterburner your answers are awesome. if i had a job that fit your skills, and you gave those answers on the spot during an interview, you would be a finalist for sure. i would never ask such dumb questions though.

just wanted to add that there is a common misperception here in regards to giving to charities. in the majority of cases, wealthy people and corporations (especially) do not give to charities for philanthropic reasons. they give to charities for reasons that benefit themselves.

i also think a lot has to do with how much money you have relative to the people you interact with day to day. that's just human nature. a villager in a 3rd world country is totally happy making $200 a month selling goat milk because everyone else in his village makes only $50 per month...

money does not make you happy but it does keep you from having to worry about a lot of things (e.g., your future, how to make more money, locked into a dead end job, etc.), so you feel more relaxed when you have money and things don't bother you as much. in this sense money does make you...