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    How much would you retire from trading for life?

    i guess you'll be working until the day you die.
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    Private jets

    one other thing. if you lease a private jet, you won't have to worry about annoying passengers, but you still have to deal with security lines and certain delays (weather-related or due to airport traffic congestion).
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    Private jets

    i looked into this a while back. there are companies that will let you purchase lease credits. to fly NY to LA non-stop, you will need to lease one of the larger jets like a gulfstream 400 because the smaller ones don't have enough range. figure a round trip will cost $100,000. that is the...
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    Any trading ideas to make $50,000 fast?

    this does not have a 90% chance of success. more like 10%. sorry, but the only way to achieve the OP's goal is to buy a handgun and hold up a bank. there's a 10% chance you will lose your $50k (posting bail) and lose your freedom too.
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    Seth Tobias RIP

    shit, this makes me want to go out and get a CT scan of my cardiovascular system.
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    Change in Mortgage rates with upcoming Fed cut?

    the 30 year fixed mortgage correlates closely to the 30 year T-bond, 7 year ARM with the 10 year T-bill, and the 5 year ARM with with the 5 year T-bill. a reduction in the FF rate may not cause mortgage rates to immediately drop. sometimes it can take months, but eventually they will drop.
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    Wall Street Layoffs

    duhhh... what city/state government doesn't rely mainly on tax revenues????? what should NY do, try to sell billions more in lottery tickets?
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    September 11, 2007 terrorist attacks?

    the first attack was on feb 26, 1993. so why was sept 11 chosen if terrorists like to repeat on anniversaries? another stupid theory.
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    Who else here think women suck?

    if you want to be with a hot chick, you have to put up with the nagging or bossiness. every pretty girl i've been with has some issues with her attitude (being selfish and demanding are common). there's too much competition among guys for the very few hot girls out there. there are not...
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    investors make up majority of mortage defaults

    to be clear, the industry-standard definition of a commercial loan is a loan on either a residential property with more than 4 units, or on a commercial property such as an office. what you are referring to are loans on non-owner-occupied residential properties. they are not commerical loans.
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    How To Forecast the Real Estate Bottom

    yeah yeah sure, whatever. according to your formula, san francisco homes should be selling for $350k but the average is $800k. so the prices need to drop by more than half. it has been that way for 40 years. you'll be waiting a long long time for reality to match your fundamentals. your...
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    IB - Why Not a USB Security Device

    that particular USB device protects against piracy and won't serve the purpose we need. what you need is a USB device that is uniquely coded for your account not for your installation of TWS. you would not be able to log on without the device. but you can use it with any installation of...
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    investors make up majority of mortage defaults

    since when is 32% a "majority"? OP = idiot
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    1987 looks a lot like 2007 take a loook

    nice of you to manipulate the scales to make both charts look similar when in fact they're not. another useless chart.
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    using dvi + rgb from two computers on 1 monitor

    i have two computers with a kvm switch, but it only uses rgb not dvi. i don't want to buy a dvi switch if i don't have to. if i plug one computer into the monitor's dvi port, and plug the other computer into the kvm switch and then into the monitor's rgb port, what would happen? there will...
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    SIPC protection in case of a financial disaster

    jeez you guys are stupid. the insurance by lloyds covers each account BEYOND the sipc coverage. suppose your broker has 5000 accounts, each with $110k cash. so the firm's total customer equity is $550M. if the broker fails, the sipc would cover $100k x 5000 = $500m. lloyds would cover the...
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    IB's new statement format

    the new format is so hard to read it's ridiculous. you also can't save it to your computer like you could the old one. sometimes i wonder who's designing these new features.
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    US Could Be Heading for a Recession

    is this based on your random thoughts or some special data that only you have access to? or perhaps you have no idea what 'recession' means and are just throwing it around meaninglessly. all the public data out there says the country is not in a recession.
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    PIMCO's Bill Gross says Bush should bail out homeowners, markets.

    most americans are against a bailout, me included. so far, bailouts have been introduced as legislation and bush has said he would reject them. but be careful, there are subtle ways the government can bail out these homeowners without legislation. the Fed can lower rates and say that it's...
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    Housing bubble = recession? Anyone agree with the assumptions of this article?

    from 2002 to 2004, interest rates declined. from 2002 to 2005, housing prices increased. throughout those years, real wages didn't climb and savings were negative, so where did people come up with the money to buy plasmas, cars & vacations? answer: cash-out refies and helocs. now housing...
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