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$20K a week? that is $1MM a year. so saving $150K in taxes a year doesnt make a difference to you? if you are an independent trader, being based in NYC doesnt really add much value. all you need is a computer and an internet connection, which you can find anywhere in the USA. and the decrease...

nyc is a terrible place to trade. the weather sucks and the cost of living is high. if you are going to be a career trader, go live in a state with no income tax like florida, texas or nevada. if you make $100K a year from trading, that will easily save you $10-$15K a year.

sales & traders should be 5 - 10000%. those big dog traders on their prop desks are no joke.

all i know is that my stops are mostly worthless now. i always get stopped out by some stupid quick price spike and since i go market into the hybrid system, i get filled like 10 cents beyond my stop price. supposedly the specialist cant see stops anymore but i feel like the book and ecns...

well sometimes the algerian oil minister says crazy stuff like, "we are going to reduce output by 50% for the rest of the year". if you trade crude or oil stocks, you don't want to miss out on that sort of news.

how many people actually paid for their FHM subscriptions? it isnt hard to find free subscription offers for fhm, maxim, stuff, etc.. i had subscriptions to all three for several years and i never paid a cent.

and guess where those hundreds of billions of tax dollars, OUR tax dollars, are going towards? right into the pockets of halliburton, boeing, lockheed and any other war profiteer. guess who gets kickbacks from those companies? not you and me but those sitting in the senate and white house. most...

well why not? if you could lock in a fixed rate mortgage when their interest rate has been pratically 0% the past decade.

that is some gift we gave the people of iraq. it was a gift that they did not ask for and a gift a majority of iraqis would return if possible. so why did we give the iraqis a gift? why not any other country? did it ever occur to you that all our gifts comes with strings attached? and...

where are we saving the muslims from themselves? in iraq, where we removed their government and left the country lawless? we made the mess and now we have to clean it up. i don't know how that constitutes "saving the world".

the days of scalping 5K or 10K lots to make 25 cents are over. well you could still try and do it but if you wrong, you are going to get ass raped. i am holding positions longer and sticking to my original entries and exits so i catch bigger moves. more 30-40 cent moves rather than 10 cent...

well the forecasted $1 trillion cost of iraq war is going into someone's pockets.

probably no impact. most prop firms use software that has auto-refresh orders every 5 minutes.

this is true of any firm that doesnt pay you any salary like first new york. why would they not take in someone who is fronting $10K of their own money and will be generating risk free income for them in the form of commissions? if you blow out your account, you have to fill it back up. a...

they also transported them on passenger planes. they are packed in with the baggage and oversized carryons.

you forgot to mention declaring ourselves the masters of the universe and exorting the rest of the world for protection money.

and the christian coalition wonders how borat has made $116MM so far. different strokes for different folks.

or if some unlucky souls all put in market orders at once, they are at the mercy of the specialist. the specialist will gap up the stock as high as possible and can get short off the fill. and then gap the stock back down. and vice versa. if you watched DE trade a few days ago, that stock...

drive both and see for yourself! would you buy a car without test driving it? i personally dont find that chevy cars are designed very comfortably. that plus the fact that they are crap quality makes me say go with honda. cant go wrong with toyota either.

great pics! now i have a new desktop wallpaper. if you could get some pics of that hot new CNBC girl, that would be awesome.