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    U.K. House Prices Unexpectedly Jumped in May 2.6 percent, Halifax Says

    This is just the market heating up for the summer. I wouldn't read too much into one month of data anyway. The real test will be 3-6 months from now.
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    Steps to becoming a great trader

    #1 recognize that you aren't going to be rich by tomorrow or next year, unless you are already are almost rich.
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    Profit Navigation

    Lets see the videos of you making those calls on CNBC. Oh thats right, you never were on CNBC. You lying sack of shit.
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    Are low margins the way to riches or blowup?

    What do you think of $500 margin retain accounts? If someone has a positive track record trading index futures intraday, is it advisable to lever up? Take a person that normally trades the NQ on $6000 margin per contract, and is profitable. Now this person decides to start trading $1000...
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    Brokers are scum.

    Pics or bullshit.
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    That sucks any way to reach ib at night?

    Uh maybe not never know. Have you tried calling any of those numbers? Im thinking phone sex hotline.
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    What do you think of this (bad) fill?

    I was short 2x YM pre market monday. I set my stop at 8593, and got filled 2 contracts filled at 8606. Now what gets me is that 2 contracts were both filled at 8606, a full 13 ticks north of my stop. I could understand if one contracted was filled at 8595 and another 8596 in a fast moving...
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    Which stocks would you hold for 30 years?

    I wonder if people will be looking back at this thread in 30 years. Even if ET isn't around by then, good likelihood it gets cached and stored forever by a web crawler. I think 99% of people that choose a large cap dominant today would suffer or get wiped out over 30 years. Then again you...
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    Selling Calls To Take Advantage of SPY Drop to 82 By 18-Sep

    I hope your not depending too much on #3.
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    Explanation For Closing Spike on Friday

    Anybody who was the least bit surprised by friday's close hasn't been trading long enough. Volume spikes up on the open and close, and they are often both very unpredictable. I have a feeling nobody here would be complaining if the DOW dropped 100 pts in the last 5 minutes as it has before...
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    THE FIX IS IN: Manipulation: How Markets Really Work -

    A lot of market action is rigged. Not 100%, or every tick by any means. But many of the moves on stocks, futures contracts, and currency crosses throughout the day are rigged. Just gotta learn to trade around it I guess.
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    Play To Win

    Did it buy you anything :confused:
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    Play To Win

    So did 10 years of screen time trading buy you that office?
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    whats it like to be short into a ramp like that?

    I got out just before takeoff. :) +65/ day
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    Oil Prices

    $70 is a given. $90 would be a disaster for consumer spending, but its not unlikely with NK and Iran heating up.
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    Trader P/L 2009

    -1.1k. Oh well ;)
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    S&P triple top, bearish formation

    As we all know technical analysis is always lags, and must be taken with a grain of salt. But check out the very bearish formation of a triple top, each with lower highs. Where are we headed? Down, in my estimation 850 S&P target within a short period of time.
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    NYSE Plans to Launch Stock-Index Contracts

    Great news. I wonder what the pricing will be. I guess NYSE will be competing on price alone? This is be great news for big volume index futures traders. Hopefully it will all liquidity and not fragment the market though. Can someone copy/paste the whole article?
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    Did NK just detonate another nuke?

    Link link link link! :eek:
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