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    Contrarian!

    i think they had been in el cajon since like 1943.
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    Contrarian!

    inventory is very low and there are still plenty of buyers. just like the tech bubble, the market can/will remain over-bought for much longer than considered rational by many folks. the top will be plain after the fact, much as someone in Spring 1990 could conclude the the Summer of 1989 was...
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    Contrarian!

    no offense, but i dont think representatives for DataQuick, HomeGain and Fidelity Nat. Title Co. are unbaised. the other comments by the "sources" should have been followed by: "And what does that mean." the "rational buyers and sellers" heading almost made me pee my pants. the guy talks...
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    Been Hosed By Your Discount Broker Lately?

    well, i think it came to 173 trades for the month as i didnt trade in november or in december until about the 12th of the month - after i discovered the problem i wasnt reallt looking to turn alot of tricks for them. i asked to speak to compliance, who apparently decided the matter for RJT. i...
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    Argentina And Debt

    im not an economist. i dont have a PHD. and i dont trade currency markets. but, every once and a while i notice that the IMF keeps loaning argentina money to make payments on debt they cant service. it'd be like a bank loaning you money every month to make the mortgage payments to them even...
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    Been Hosed By Your Discount Broker Lately?

    i was shocked more than furious - of course, i was having the conversation at like 5:30 am or 6:00 am PST. kinda amazing really. they must have some cashflow issues... trying to hit the high margin stuff really hard. if times get tougher, maybe they will start charging $1 a trade for email...
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    Been Hosed By Your Discount Broker Lately?

    i have not. it might be easier to resolve this issue as a "continuing" client than as an "ex-client." dont you agree? i trade as a LP rather than an individual. this complicates things a bit in terms of "professional fees" with IB. not mind boggling, but just another wrinkle. regardless...
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    Been Hosed By Your Discount Broker Lately?

    twobits, they will still honor the $5 commish if you were a client before the buyout; provided you make 150 trades a quarter. IMO, the fills have gotten crappier... but, couldnt prove that. i know that i really didnt have any complaints before the takeover (of course i left scottrade for...
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    The market is whispering something...

    when they are done with saddam, they should turn around and overthrow themselves next!:mad:
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    PhD without the guts

    or at least be aware of the fear. my mom lived in 3-D her whole life - DEATH, DOOM and DESTRUCTION - around every corner. depression era childhood could have had something to do with it, along with the fact that she was raising two kids w/o support of any kind... took her 23 years to pay off a...
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    PhD without the guts

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    PhD without the guts

    which class would i be taking at harvard? maybe - FALSE B/O 101? i wonder if i had gone to school with those folks if my perspective would have been altered? probably. if you read "liars poker" i think you'll see that trading is not an academic exercise. my point was that this is not an...
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    PhD without the guts

    man this is SOOOOOOOOO true... i took a graduate level stock analysis class at a major university by a Harvard trained MBA who runs an investment fund. first day - actually first 5 minutes he asks: anyone who is not getting their asked kicked in the market raise their hand. One hand up...
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    How is Sabena gonna do in trading?

    NO KIDDING!:eek:
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    The market is whispering something...

    1. there will be a war. our reason for provocation will be relatively weak compared to past events. there will be a war with iraq. 2. there will be an occupation. 3. unless saddam destroys the fields, the occupation will be less disruptive to oil supplys than the current situation. 4...
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    Andover Takeover

    hey over linetheline... robert was kind enough to invite me down to his office one afternoon towatch him trade... what was in it for him = NOTHING. being self-taught, i'd only seen one other trading station before, so just seeing how how robert did things was very informative. from my...
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    Andover Takeover

    robert, didnt ABwatley buy RJT? if so, that would explain the charges of $2.50 a TRADE for paper confirmations.... sorry i missed your seminar this past week... my loss!
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    Fastest way to lose an $1,000,000 account

    1. sign up with RJT 2. turn off the email confirms 3. make 100 trades a day (200 round trips) 4. even if you break even trading enuf to cover the commissions, they'd siphon off your million bucks in exactly 2,000 trading days for simply providing you with statements (at $2.50 per trade - NOT...
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    Another Very Simple Trading Strategy

    hey inandlong.... im using the the shorter time frame bars - perhaps there is more noise in them... just noticing that in the recent past that instead of honoring a 50% or 62% FIB level, the retracements have been deeper, which is a difficult trade for me to take. not making a big deal out of...
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    Margo's Swing Journal

    maybe its just a coincidence and margo uses a similar system. :p
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