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    why prop and not futures?

    I was offered a job in CT in 96 trading the spooz for a "prop" firm. Back when prop meant you were a good trader and traded their money with your strategy and they paid you well if you could make them lots of money. You made money with position. They are now one of the largest hedge funds...
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    NYSE closing for James Browns' funeral!!!!

    Can you imagine! Party time!!! Get your angel dust and guns and salute two dead legends.........
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    NYSE Closing for President Ford's Funeral?

    I am sure no pointy head even thought of it when they went public... If I was a member of a leading market share exchange I would gladly take the day off. NYSE is in a competitive environment now.... Exchanges are $$$$$$$$ driven finally by competive forces, or we woudl still be trading in...
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    NYSE Closing for President Ford's Funeral?

    Reagan would not of wanted it that way. But we live in a new world, public NYSE.... Maybe Ford, but not Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush or whoever is next.....
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    Goodbye American Production (and Maybe Innovation, Too)

    free markets will always win, always! Chinese don't have not adjusted their currency accordingly, or let market dominate. They will soon be suffering like the asian contagion of 97 or the mexican meltdown of 94. Both followed by good times for us. Do you remember?
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    Massive US Dollar Sell-Off On The Way: What To Do?

    Stocks are already diving compared to the rest of the world and we are still up y.o.y. US consumer wags the tail of the world markets. No one will chew off the hand that feeds them. Till the next major geopolical event times are good here in the US......
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    Massive US Dollar Sell-Off On The Way: What To Do?

    Go get a job in manufacturing. US would make a nice offshore manufacturing base for exporters to the rest of the world, like we used to be....
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    Debt Debt Debt

    Quantify numbers if you will to gdp. Same with deficit. No problem. Now go build your y2k bunker and stock it with bottled water and gold ingots...
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    NYSE Closing for President Ford's Funeral?

    Now that they are public, it is going to be a tough sell. Can you see any other public co closing for a funeral? I say next dead president, no close!!!!!!
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    Should I day-trade full-time???

    Why do posters come one et and act all coy about producing unheard of returns then ask total strangers for advice? Beware..... I have made $8.6 million the last year trading tiger shrimp futures on the Vietnam shrimp exchange, do you think I should quit my janitorial job? Please help et...
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    Beans in the teens

    The more acerage utilized for corn planting, less for beans, therefore less bean production.
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    Anyone been a Futures Broker?

    How bad do you want to be a trader? Get two or three jobs, work your ass of for the next 5 to 10 years and save up a few hundred thousand. It is called delayed gratification. As far as getting a trading job if I was hiring I would have to ask, how successful are you in other endeavors in your...
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    Why scalping beats any other trading style

    Short term outcomes are much more predictable, trading, sports, etc. Much easier to predict who's going to win the game on Sunday than who will win the super bowl next year based on current information. Same with trading, making scalping easier based on recent price action. However recent...
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    China's CNOOC signs $16B Gas deal with Iran, beginning of WW3?

    Everyone is dependent on the American consumer..... Period. No one will cut of the hand that feeds you.
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    This bubble is rediculous!

    Put your prediction into context. Are you talking 2000 meltdown or a nice 7-10% correction? Equities are just reverting to historical normal returns. The indexes have been dead money for the last 6 years. We have moved very far very fast, but everything always reverts back to the norm...
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    cme seat holders

    He wants to call them all up begging for a job..... "I love to trade and want a mentor, with money to capitalize me. I have been so unseccessful in all my other endevears I have no money and am sure I will be successful in trading."
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    Career Advice: Here are my trading results

    First, what's your benchmark for your returns and have you addded any value (beaten) said benchmark. I have over $1,000,000 in a managed account and my returns contnuously exceed the benchmarks for their respected asset classes. That's what I gladly pay 1% for annually to my finanancil...
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    What To Watch For Today!

    523 50% retracement from thurs low and pivit high from fri on ymh7 Also fri low, held up, missed the buy at 526, one tick it looks like...
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    You are forwarned!

    Prediction next two weeks, low volume. They will probally wind it up tighter than a banjo string then run the stops and take you all out. Or they could puch it up another 2% just to crush the shorts and infuritate those that are not long. They are out too get you!
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    Bad tick on esh7 or big mistake?

    Thanks, I was looking at my Bermuda time clock, thought it was near 18:00.
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