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I completely agree. I must have missed the part here where it says "as long as the freedom of the press does not have a profound effect on a company's business model".. Maybe the Framers of the Constitution wrote it in invisible ink? A Constitutional Literalist would say it wasn't...

On the one hand, nobody ever posts charts of pure close lines. Candles or OHLC graphs are all we see. On the other hand, most of us around here aren't profitable, so mayhaps there's something to lines. Back on the first hand, every book on the subject I have ever seen uses candles or OHLC's.

Whoah, stop the bus right here. Don't write me off as being a cynical ass, but when somebody controls the purse strings, they control the whole shootin' match. Name me one instance about anything at anytime in history anywhere in the world where the one who controls the funding didn't have...

$100 billion companies aren't defeated, even if the gov't declares war on them. They throw a shovelfull of money at it in the form of political contributions and lawyers to delay until a more friendly president comes along, then the whole thing blows over and goes away. I offer Microsoft as...

You've had a bad run of luck. Is this week turning better?

Should be required watching for every American citizen.

pssssst.. this is the internet.. let's not shed light on anything and ruin it for everybody..

Hope to start this year. $15k in IRA, $5k in standard account. Haven't got a clue what to do yet. Still reading and learning and looking at charts. To mis-paraphrase Edison: I haven't failed, I have found 10,000 ways to not build a profitable trading system.

Interesting. In a non-margin account I always thought spreads were cash settled so you never held a short position. Does your broker still have full recourse if your position ends with a loss in a cash account? I have heard that if you ever wind up underwater in an IRA, that can cause a real...

I've noodled on this since I got home, am I over thinking this? If I just shorted all those currency futures, I would basically have the same thing? So I could get flat by buying UUP and also buying the basket of foreign currency futures? This is the most puzzling ETF I've run across.

lescor, Do you trade at home or at an office? If office, yours alone or part of the prop firm? You mentioned an assitant- dedicated to you or shared amoung a trading group? Basically I'm wondering how big your operation is.

But what the hell does that MEAN? What makes it go up and down? If I buy it, what do I own? Can somebody dumb this down for me?

Start a journal, post trades live.

So I guess the big question is how can I, as a little guy, profit from this? Knowing something is going to happen 10 out of 12 times sounds like a huge edge..

Back of the envelope calculations: One tick level data packet can't be more than 50 bytes (10 bytes for unique instrument ID, 10 bytes for price, 10 for quantity, 10 for timestamp, 5 for venue, and 5 for checksum). So if you were getting 10 updates per second on a very active insrument...

OK, at the risk of you all accusing me of backpeddling, I did say I would have a licensed professional on my side, not specifically a listing RE agent. An RE lawyer qualifies as such in my book. That's not going it alone. My aunt and uncle sold their house in Cali right at the peak of the...

Nope, never my own. But I did do re-fi's a few years ago, and I know first hand there is a lot of stuff that goes into real estate deals. I took an independant RE course in Cali and was licensed to do re-fi's in 13 states, and still there is no way I would buy or sell a house without a...

lol ok Today feels like Friday with all the nonsense on ET..

Why?

Like the jet pack, love the porta potty prank! lol