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Um Excuse me? (Bias note: I am an employee here) Pretty interesting. We're not all old, stodgy, cranky folks (I'm cranky only when i show up here with no coffee. Internally, we have a lot of technology and shit gets done. Does SAC Capital have a website? No. Citadel? Partially. I'm...

she's still there (at least in our company directory anyhow)

For the other BURNING DESIRE TD :) http://www.preparationh.com/

LOL ES :D I just had an idea for a reality show on mtv: MAKING THE GRADE: Proprietary Trading Have a house like Real World and give them all prop trading shots... :D "The Apprentice" LOL how's the new digs ES?

It's like I'm watching ESPN, only this ain't on HD!!! IT SUCKS! I do kinda notice this looks a lot like the European format (at least the ticker on the bottom) The ticker on the top reminds me of a NFL sunday game. LOL At least they have the commodities on the upper band now :D

The freakin charts are tilting from side to side! GOD I hope they turn this crap off on the floor! BLOOMBERG PLEASE.

You have to want it bad enough. Bad enough to starve. Bad enough that you cry. You have to have a BURNING DESIRE. People will see it in your eyes.

I have the Moview Quad and i like it..

MidAM is now integrated into the CBOT grain room.

Anyone know of a good firm that does audits on trading statements for us small fry guys? How much does a typical year-end audit cost? Thanks, C

Yeah, but I've also seen some locals (another poster posted that locals and traders are different in a context) who trade off of order flow and still manage to make a nice tidy profit. They don't have charts. But hey, different strokes for different folks.

$30 to lease a seat on MGEX????? :eek: http://www.mgex.com/seat_prices.html

Bighog- From what I've seen in my experiences dealing with locals at least in the grains room (mcurto on here can comment from his vantage point over in the ritzy financials room) - there are no charts on the floor. All there is is you, a couple scraps of paper, and someone's dentyne on the...

For short term intraday trading in the grains, I highly recommend The Logical Trader by Mark Fisher. A lot of my friends (a few retired from the game) used to play spreads in the grains (Jan corn vs. March corn and so on) That can be another opportunity if you want to hold on. The strategy...

Chances are if they are already successful and have money, then they DON'T need you :D

But one could argue that if it wasn't for some (not all) of the backoffice types, they wouldn't have the infrastructure to help folk earn that money :D

Gee I have enough trouble getting here at 0845AM. Now you mean to tell me I have to be in this damned thing from 7:45-6? :mad: Oh well... more time to pick ur nose, take a long lunch, smoke some cigars, watch the midtown chix walk on 5th ave..... Thanks Thain.

If you lie about it, then you're in deeper shit and definitely will get screwed for a bit longer than if you tell the truth. http://registeredrep.com/compliance/

ah.. the days from when they handed out stock like a vendor handing out hats at a convention.....

Why does LU move in such a tight range but yet has 36 mil volume today? This is one stock i've not followed in a few years, but geeze.... SNDK can have a range of 49 - 51.46 on 12 mil vol... *confused* -c