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    Interactive Brokers Lost Estimated 25 Million In Q1 On Insider Trading Of Options

    As far as I know no market maker is perfectly hedge especally for deep OTM calls. So when a take over happens they are going to lose. I know several MM's on the PHLX or the AMEX back in the day who lost their years on one takeove.
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    great line about I bankers

    From an article on Jayski, a website about Nascar concerning some un named Wall Street firms wanting to become involved in the sport. Yates in a long time owner of a team Robert Yates talked extensively with the potential investors and reached the same conclusion. “You sit in a room with...
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    Why do commodity prices fall before Fed meetings

    to impress Jodie Foster?
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    Dick Diamond

    i know him real nice guy been a trader for many years
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    "100 Women in Hedge Funds" - Global association

    some of the biggest men i know are women on wallstreet
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    Jesse Jackson: Black investment banks not getting Blackstone IPO action

    typical Jesse shakedown he did the same thing to Nike and Coke some years back look the man has alot of paternity to defend he needs to make a buck
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    Trader Liability for Broker Errors

    Echotrade has allways been fair with me when I had situations
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    someone at IB needs thier ass kicked

    thats what you get for trading at Vinnies stock excnage and fine Italian pasteries
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    Zinc Trading LLC/Zinc Consulting

    Does anyone know anything about these guys? they seem to be marketing themselves as some sort of trader agent types
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    ECHOTrade

    It happens to be that when I was at Echo I had 100 to 1 from day 1. In my personal situation I had a track record and a style that called for it
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    ECHOTrade

    no they come to your desk and raise your limits while a stripper gives you a lap dance and feeds you caviar
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    firms with best intraday buying power to Money up ratio?

    true but that was after they blew up Here is what I am getting at. A trader in a prop firms money is at risk in one of two ways. the first is that the firm blows up and he loses his deposit or retained earnings. The trader in this case has very little recourse weather he is an llc or a sro...
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    firms with best intraday buying power to Money up ratio?

    I do not mean arbitration where the trader got his money back. I mean a situation where as a result of a dispute with a trader, the firm or its principals were fined or suspended by the regulators or where forced to pay significant punitive damages to a trader.
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    firms with best intraday buying power to Money up ratio?

    can Don or anyone else specifically cite a case when a exchange or SRO took regulatory action against a prop firm for not paying traders or the like? i have known of action being taken for capital short sales, and licenses but i can not recall a prop firm ever being disciplined for issues...
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    ECHOTrade

    i know of people who get much higher leverage then that at echo it is negotionable based on trading style.
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    100-1 Leverage

    echo gives 100 to one
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    Angelo Mozilo (aka George Hamilton) of Countrywide Financial Has Large Nads

    actually sub prime brokers exist because wall street needed to create an asset class to securities not because people needed houses.
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    Anybody insider-trade SLM on Friday?

    i think the rumer was in the paper on friday morning
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    Top 10 hard-to-fill US jobs

    "3. Accountant. Haha, that's because accounting sucks and most people will go crazy doing it. Even with the money you can make, most people just cannot bring themselves to that occupation. Seriously, when you think accountant, you think BORING." also demand for accountants surged after the...
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    Top 10 hard-to-fill US jobs

    http://ups.com/pressroom/us/bios/bios/ virtually all of the senior management at ups started out on the dock
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