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    GOLD 400.00+; Can it hold?

    FPC would turn that into a poem.
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    GOLD 400.00+; Can it hold?

    ...you might be surprised. <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=381878"></img> source: http://www.treas.gov/tic/exhibitsc&d.pdf
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    Any firms hiring with no capital contribution

    The way you've asked these questions is to require some blanket statements in answer. In general, I would answer as follows, acknowledging that exceptions must, by definition, exist. "more prepared for what?" business management, perhaps. that can be an advantage in market analysis, but it...
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    Any firms hiring with no capital contribution

    if you search ET for "Geduld" you will find an article about Buzzy Geduld, who sold his firm, Herzog, Heine, and Geduld, to Merril Lynch for $900 million in 2000 or thereabouts. Prior to starting one of the largest OTC market makers, he ran a donut shop. Most of the people whose vision...
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    Coffee, Trading and You

    I traded coffee and drink it. Have some fond memories of trading coffee. Drinking it, too. I have some fond memories of Dunkin' Donuts. And if it goes public again, I'll trade that too.
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    Any firms hiring with no capital contribution

    schony, carlin, these guys are burned out. i'd bet on worldco making a better comeback than these two former highriders.
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    Best way to profit from housing crash

    what, are people going up and dump their houses and live on the beach? :D relax, it's a joke. with a point.
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    transitioning from prop

    same as any other business. someone gives you cap, and he thinks he owns you.
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    Rental prices lead housing prices?

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    Rental prices lead housing prices?

    ... <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=379895"></img> tried to post the chart here, it usually works...HTML issues here, I think. <font size=1>form bigcharts.com</font>
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    Rental prices lead housing prices?

    i don't suppose that rent amounts have anything to do with the supply of rental units, or the demand for them, or any thing such as that.
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    Worldco payouts.

    some traders paid $15 per 1000.
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    Good article.

    i'm not a big fan of quants, but it was interesting. liked the idea of trading anything and everything, venture capital, etc.
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    Stock movement, standard deviation and psychology

    great description.
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    Stock movement, standard deviation and psychology

    the fact that a series of observable events will stay within a set of boundaries (1, 2, or 3 sd's) sort of argues <i>against</i> randmoness, doesn't it? it's more like a constrained range of possibilities; like a fence around a playground. It's not <i>unpredictibility</i>, it's...
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    Deflation? Stagflation? Hyperinflation?

    well said. the original complaint reminds me of someone crying about having to pay $240 per share for YHOO. There were plenty of other, less volatile equities out there at that time.
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    Happy Thanksgiving To All You Elitanians And Elitists

    indeed and thanks Baron, also. Great board -- head and shoulders above the rest; congratulations, I've been meaning to say, on passing 20,000 members. chas
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    making transition from sell side institutional sales to a prop desk

    an inspiring clip from the first ny site: <a href="http://www.fnysllc.com/faq.htm"><img src="http://www.fnysllc.com/images/faq.jpg"></img></a>
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    Monte Carlo simulation

    i was asking myself the same thing. then i figured that probably no one knows how to do it anymore.... see if this has the excel stuff you need: http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/monte_carlo_simulation.pdf
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    Soros on American Bubble

    spoken as only a man who got caught long a boatload of dotcoms can do.
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