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There wouldn't be a DOM as you can't have futures trading with being able to short. By definition, there is a short for every long in futures as you really aren't buying or selling anything, but entering into a contract to deliver or take delivery at a specific price at a future date. Financial...

I was. I started trading live in July of '87. I was in no way prepared to deal with it. Made a few S&P trades (which were 10 times larger than ES), but was a deer in the head lights most of the time. My partner was also new to trading and took a big gold position thinking flight to safety. The...

Just noticed that crude hit $95, and probably going lower. Notice how we aren't hearing about the evil speculators now? Maybe they are all on vacation because everyone knows they can drive up the price to any level they want.

Constituents were calling in 100 - 1 against the bailout, so I don't see the logic here.

TZ, You are delusional. You haven't stated a single thing that makes any sense.You sound like you are about 20 yrs old. How about answering my genome question? That's pure science buddy. You have offered zero science. You think Noah built an Ark don't you? My degrees BTW. You can pose as...

Also, Here is a quick list of famous atheist philosophers. Took me two seconds to find this on the web. I could get you lists of many more, but I am too lazy, and you'd dismiss it somehow anyway. And why did I state that philosophers are atheists? Cause I took a fair amount of philosophy...

No TZ, Atheism is based on science, religion is based on culture. Explain this one, pure science here. Human genome is almost identical to that of chimps. If that isn't major evidence for evolution I don't know what is. You of course will state that this is not science somehow because you...

This I agree with. Neither one of these guys would be my first (or second) choice. I was just hazing you a bit because you were so sure Mac was going to win when Gore flopped (chose not to run).

What the hell does that have to do with this thread? Racism ignorance has nothing to do with science or God. As for Leaky, evolution has pretty much been proven. Reams and reams of evidence vs. you guys who think the earth is 5000 years old (there are civilizations older than that), Noah's...

But you said McCain was going to win.

Give me a fucking break, its the exact opposite. From philosophy 101, the classic Dichotomy of God: 1) All powerful 2) all knowing 3) absolute purity (good). Then how can there be so much crap in the world. Starvation, wars, etc.. Does not compute. Virtually every philosopher is an...

Bingo. Artificially low interest rates and ridiculously loose credit helped as well.

From what I can find on the net, there seems to be no mention of a transaction tax. Looks like we dodged a bullet for the time being. Personally, I don't think it will ever happen as the lobbies from the Chicago exchanges will explain pretty well to Congress what a disaster it would be. I could...

There are two threads currently running about this that are very active, especially the one in Trading. Consensus is its the end of the daytrader in America as they want to base the tax on the value of transaction, not just a set dollar value per transaction. .25% of millions per day would crush...

He was my pick for Prez. Hell of a resume, speaks well, and even looks like a President! I can't really stomach either of what we are left with.

As others have stated, moving to another country isn't an issue unless you want to pay no taxes period, and this has little to do with a transaction tax as you'd have already done it for income taxes. And yes, you'd have to renounce your US citizenship. Although the US is pretty fucked up now...

yeah, same problem here, and I've been at it over two decades. Thinking of starting up a trading office here in San Diego just to have people around all day. I don't trade as well around others as I get distracted and sucked into crappy trades all the time, but its getting to the point where I...

I just heard on CNN that Congress can't even vote on it until Monday, so I don't see how it will be a done deal on Sunday.

ONLY liquidity! You obviously do not understand how crucial liquidity is for an efficient market system. Also, besides the taxes you mentioned, all the commodity exchanges would essentially be out of biz as day trading is 95 % of their income. Equity exchanges would all combine to one small...