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    Interactive Brokers

    Maybe you should think about it from the other side of the fence. For IB, an INTERNATIONAL business that deals with millions of dollars each day in electronic form with no branch offices, it would be very easy to launder money through them if you had it that easy to transfer money. Sorry...
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    Rumor? Fact? Bright's .40/1K share fee?

    .4 cents incremental above 1000 shares/ticket If a Bright trader sends in a ticket for 2000 shares and pays 1.0 cents right now, he pays $20 in commiss With new structure, the first 1000 shares is charged at 1.0 and the other 1000 is at 0.4. Total commis $14. Savings of $6 per ticket...
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    Eating and trading

    Holy smokes, how much do you weigh and how tall are you? 3 plates is a lot to bench unless you weigh around 250lbs (that would be 1.25 your body weight)
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    First Year Review

    I like the flaming guy. Nice Sig.
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    Did the Market just SLLLOOOWED down and stoped trading?

    The traders in the office was saying the same thing! I took a nap, and the others went for an extended lunch. I tried shorting the SPY this morning, but got run over, so I'm a bit tentitive of shorting the close. Market's feel like a slow grind up. DNAJ65000
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    Reporting results to family/partner

    While I was a trainee with SwiftTrade, I made the mistake of telling my family how I did for the first week. Then after, they expected a daily report as something to talk about. Since they didn't understand the nature of the business, they got distressed when I told them I had a big losing...
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    emini scalper's question

    sorry for the newbie question but could someone please tell me how much capital (without margin) is required for: 1 contract of the emini s&p 1 contract of the emini nasdaq and also, how much profit is .25 point movement in each of the sp and nasdaq? thanks for bearing with me...
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    Price Improvement Poll

    As I understand it, price improvment usually is a function of batching order flow. Since there is less institutional activity nowadays, there's not as much order flow for the specialist to give you and I an improvement on. DNAJ65000
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    who watches 24?

    hehe, my friend bought the season 1 dvd pack and we watched it in 3 days of 8 episodes each day. Can't wait for the season 2 dvd to come out. Any idea how many more epis there on tv? DNAJ65000
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    Swift Trade

    As a former trainee at the Vancouver Swift, I'm happy to hear you're going for it. Best wishes for success! DNAJ65000
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    how to minimize the slippage?

    What kind of style are you trading? Are you trading momentum, pairs, other? Best thing to do is to only use limit orders and don't chase a price down more than once. If you're trading nasdaq, it's not as critical since there's usually more liquidity on the big cap stocks, however, if you're...
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    Divident question

    My bad. I stand corrected.:eek:
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    Divident question

    to get the dividend - buy stock on the ex-dividend day - hold it overnight - the stock will be marked down by the dividend amount the following morning (so if it pays a $0.50 div, the stock's price will trade $0.50 lower assuming no other market factors) - you are free to sell it in the...
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    money equals happiness ???

    I asked myself that question many times when I chose trading as a career. What I came up with is that NO, I wouldn't still trade if I had between $2-$4 million in liquid assets. I would invest it in bonds and live off the $70,000 interest/yr and pursue personal hobbies. Trading is a lot of...
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    Swift Trade

    Legally, you're not "hired" as an employee of Swifttrade during the first 3 months. You are technically taking a course for $99. But I left because our training class of 8 people all got "fired" or more accurately, "not hired". So that's why I went to Bright Trading. I really enjoyed my...
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    Random Walk Contest Week 1

    It's Thurs and my 5 stock portfolio is green! not bad. 4 of my 5 picks are in the money. lets see what friday closes at. fishsauce, do you calculate it on a % return basis or actual $ basis? DNAJ65000
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    Swift Trade

    Hi, I was a trainee with the Vancouver office 4th quarter of 2002. Each office is a bit different in terms of management since it's a franchise but here's a general gist of it. Sorry for the lack of flow cuz it's a cut and paste job from earlier posts. I'm too tired right now to edit it...
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    Exactly how smart is Bush?

    Human nature is to do things in one's best interest and as I'm reading your post, it sounds like that's what you're trying to say. The US made a pre-emptive strike to Iraq to protect its national security. Why listen to the UN if it's not their security on the line, right? By the same token...
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    Exactly how smart is Bush?

    I'm Canadian and I love the States. Great stock market, great music, great sitcoms. However, truth of the matter is that whether you are Pro Bush or not, it's the opinion of the nations outside of the US that matters most. Let me take the war in Iraq to prove my point. Canada's Prime...
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    Why ET is great

    I agree that the intelligence level here is much higher than most message boards....Yahoo being on the opposite end. Of course, you do learn to hone your insulting and flaming skills on Yahoo. :p
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