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    The Opening Orders Thread

    Professor Bright, I noticed the daily buy/sell number on your site differs from the number displayed at programtrading, it is generally a lower amount, wondered why. Secondarily, I am finding inconsistencies in the Open price displayed in eSignal and YahooFinance. For example, today BAC...
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    Looking to hold my series 7 license, anyone?

    "parking" a securities license is a prohibited practice, it violates NASD rule 1031.
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    question for prop guys

    Echo requires series 7, use SterlingPro software. Assent requires series 7, use Anvil or Hammer. Benchmarq is a subLLC, series 7 not required, use Blackwoodpro.
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    The Opening Orders Thread

    Thanks! Man...I knew something was amiss...short 7 out of 9 names, all winners. The Black Swan met the Blind squirrel under the broken clock...
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    The Opening Orders Thread

    May I call on someone to provide todays Futures price at 645ish PST, I think I screwed up and made $2047 on 8500 shares! I calculated using: FV 13.82 Cash 1484.25 Futures 1480.30
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    Lahde Capital Management up 410 percent year to date

    $5mm to 60mm...and growing. I tried keeping their name out of my post since the manager's performance wasnt publicly disclosed at the time.
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    Will you buy timmay's hedge fund book?

    1 finger + 3 fingers = 4 fingers? Mickey Mouse trades?
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    What must I know before joining Prop firm?

    FWIW...my thoughts on remote. Almost all of the consistent moneymakers I know trade remote by now. Obviously, the ever increasing rate of technological advances have had a major effect. The 'own-account' or proprietary trader...I prefer this over the dated 'day trader' moniker is on the...
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    Here comes Fred...

    Dude...count to 10 before you decide to post. 61.8% of the time you'll find your intended posts is unnecessary; and 38.2% of the time, pointless.
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    Hey TIMMAY, you here?

    My auto mechanic took 5k to 250k in 4 months buying ATM and OTM calls in AOL every 20 points up for awhile...planned on cashing in at $1mm. The account went from 5K...to 250K...to 1.5K. He still does my oil changes. This guy did not even know the daily newspaper had a financial section. My...
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    getting really worried about neiderhoffer

    He's probably busy counting how many people playing checkers wearing blue hats riding on elephants on days the SP500 moves within 1 sigma of its average over the last 38 days coincides with a 6% rally when one finds a plant biologist surfing on a yellow surfboard reading a backyard BBQ book.
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    Daytraders a SERIOUS threat to our business

    ...seems like the 'trading' equivalent of the guy at a rock concert holding up the ten foot sign telling us we are on a highway to hell.
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    Closest thing to bloomberg

    eSignal for quotes, charts. Or Tradestation if you like backtesting etc. Subscribe to DJ News ($30) and briefing.com. Grab a few RSS feeds. You can get a squawk box for $125. That pretty much will give you everything you need for about 25% of what Bloomberg costs. Who needs the...
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    Definition of 'Blow Up'

    In the current era, losing an amount of capital in a measurement period which causes the current investors to request redemption at a rate which affects the fund's ability to continue as a going concern. Many fund OM's state the fund will be required to wind down if the loss is n%. Often a...
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    Broker to Prop Trader

    You mean the manager who made you sell crap with a quota, posting the monthly sales contest results on the compliance managers door, the wet, soggy tuna sandwiches at the required sales meetings...featuring Angelo Mozilo and his fake tan, loud shirts and even louder ties; the delayed quotes, the...
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    Poll: Is it humanly possible to capture 3x ATR everday?

    ..and eating a Jack Hershey bar that use to be called Hershey's.
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    Lehman shuts BNC Mortgage unit, cuts 1,200 jobs

    Dude, start a blog. I can read headlines.
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    Trader P/L 2007

    +442
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    The Opening Orders Thread

    Used a .5% envelope, 1 out of 4 filled, a quick +$295 I'm sure my high school algebra teacher would be smiling seeing me bang on a calculator at 6AM!
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    Trader P/L 2007

    I've stopped trading until I complete my rule based auto exit program. I will never get to the next level without automating my methods. Look forward to posting after simulation/testing is complete. Good luck to all you members of 'Murderers Row'!
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