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    short in HFT?

    From what I've read on deepcapture.com, the locate process is a requirement that can be circumvented by shoddy brokerages, and most definitely has over the year as deepcapture has implied that the depository trust and clearing corporation is complicit in this matter. Apparently Penson has...
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    Jim Rogers: Farmers will make more $ than bankers

    Thats why you have Seacan's of weapons and cash
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    My theory of personality types

    Stupid theory - You should read whats been done already - Myers-Briggs and Do what You Are- Paul Tieger http://www.amazon.com/What-You-Are-Type-Revised-careers/dp/0316880655
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    New San Francisco bridge built in China to be shipped to US

    This is an interesting article. I work in the steel trade and I've seen things like the Bird's Nest - China's Olympic stadium and when you use the software yourself that's used to make that structure, it's really amazing. Its not just putting people at a problem and doing it - it was a...
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    Just released. "Smartest guys in the room" at Goldman took biggest bailout loan.

    Maybe they have to lever up all their positions. When you have that much money you can move the Market
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    Portfolio optimization of a basket of high frequency and low frequency strategies

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trainspotter I thought it referred to the movie... Good name for him.. Maybe he'll fall into a toilet
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    Russia to Reduce US Debt Holdings- That's what happens when you print, no one wants y

    How do you know that the USD that Russia and other countries supposedly rid themselves of wasn't just taken by all these countries and dispersed to bureaucrats and then deposited in macau, Geneva, Panama, or Antigua? Seems like the simplest explanation!?! Besides, didn't Mark Lapolla or...
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    Anybody could please explain the rationale behind the MS trade?

    Dumb it down... They were short longer duration treasuries (think 30yr) , and long inflation assets like OIL... they probably thought they had a kind of spread trade on and the expected correlation if they had one, blew out.
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    Can you make too much money from trading?

    There's a solution for those who feel guilty about making money: You can donate some of it You can drink and eat and snort some of it You can find a wife to rid you of some of it You can gamble it back into where it came from You can find an entourage of losers to spend it for you...
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    Fortunes are Made During Market Crashes

    Well if you plan on making money on the short side of the Market- better choose the right broker, and you better remember that at the bottom - not many brokers are going to be answering the phone to liquidate your put options at the value you'd expect them too.... This has happened before- in...
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    America's vanishing science jobs

    ET is facilitating many more narcissists than it would ever "create" scientists.
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    Tim Sykes Sues StockTwits

    Maybe he was hoping for a hummer from Lindsay Campbell... I know I would be...
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    The world's best trader worked for Bernie Madoff

    Surf- Let us know when you spit his balls out of your mouth.
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    Pump and Dump

    Well, if he accumulated a significant share of the float... like 100000s to millions of shares... you could maybe go somewhere with that...without the trading report...but unless its a consistent pattern or millions of dollars at risk, I doubt they would do anything.
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    Pump and Dump

    You'd need - proof that the shares were held by this person or firm .. and that shares not reported by the person or firm were also being held with intent to control them under other peoples or other firms names.... But good luck. Take a look at deepcapture.com, that site is proof that no one...
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    Pandora down over 30%!

    Sure they weren't Newspapers he was selling?
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    Beware of Adobe 8 upgrade

    I had installed Adobe X a month or so ago - and it screwed things up for a while.. There may have been an update - but my Windows 7 system DID NOT like it.... I would take like 60 seconds to print a a drawing out ..... instead of 5 or so with the older version.. so be careful if you use this...
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    Job as a Proprietary Trader when capital investment is needed for a new trader

    It's the same old metaphor- you sold and repaired bicycles.. now you want to race the Tour De France... make sure you get on the right team!
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    Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    Good advice If you are looking at Amibroker - Howard Bandy has a couple of introductory books that will shorten the learning curve.
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    Noam Chomsky: Free Market Fantasies

    Ya- I didn't know about that but he always struck me as a highly functioning narcissist... Like anyone who's ever looked at Chomsky's universal grammar would know its all bullshit.. but tens of thousands got degrees based on it.
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