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Look Clinton’s to blame (loose lending standards, glass steagall etc), Bush is to blame (no balls), there’s a lot blame to go around. Time just named the 25 top people to blame. I was dissapointed that Dodd and Barney Frank weren’t on the list. But the Fed controls the money, they are to...

Maybe, but I don’t think so. I have traded with Sterling trader. Partial fills happen all the time. You probably don’t notice it. Most of the time the 2 fills are done at the same second. For instance you place a buy at the bid for 200 shares. A few seconds later you get a fill. Sterling...

I see these all the time. I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out, but haven’t. A couple of years ago, the SEC implemented the sub-penny rule. Everything over $1 had to trade in full penny’s, no $10.0599 trades. Every platform I’ve used rejects these orders, but I still see them...

What planet have you been on? Bush did absolutely nothing and in fact aggrevated the immigration problems. He did nothing to solve healthcare costs. He was the one who started the bank bailouts. He never stood up to Greenscam or Bernankrupt to curb the excessive credit and housing bubble...

I read some of your posts and they literally are exactly how I was thinking. It’s about a system. It’s basically about throwing up a buy and sell order a few cents apart and hoping they both get filled. Try to get an extra penny or two from every trade and that really adds up. Rebates are a...

I got a 70% payout and have to pay for the software. PM me if you want the firm name. I don’t care about the payout is. Who cares if it’s 100%. What’s 100% of 0? All I cared about was the commissions. Unfortunately this strategy didn’t work out. I’ll explain more in my next post.

We live in a world where the accused is forced to defend himself and presumed guilty, rather than the accuser having to thoroughly prove their accusations. Anybody who has been to traffic court knows this. It’s a he said, she said, and the cop always wins, unless you have a lawyer. More...

How am I not taking responsibility? I am at work doing my job and casually asked him if he could not do what he did because it confuses everything. All of the other drivers will say the same thing, what he did messes things up. After he got all mad, I realized I wasn’t going to get anywhere...

OK thanks for the advice. I will probably just need to suck it up. That’s really what I’ve already been doing. I am not making very much money now, but I put on a good face and go to work and then try to look for other jobs during the day. I do my job very well and everybody knows that. I...

Around 1900 the dow was at 50. It took 80 years for it to get to 500. It took 25 years to recover from the 29 crash. Then we had an a huge boom to 14,000 before crashing. So really buy and hold really only worked in the past 30 years. What makes the past 30 years different? Massive...

I was wondering if you guys could give me some advice. On Sunday I was at work. Everything was fine, but then my manager broke a minor protocol to try to make his numbers look better. Him doing that initially made me a little confused (which is why he’s not supposed to do it) and after...

You must have been in Montgomery County. They’ve really gone overboard with the speed cameras. Today I was driving in an area I haven’t been in a year and noticed they put up speed cameras on the main road that usually has a 45 mph limit. Of course they put them right at the school where the...

Call it whatever you want. She rejected the idea of spending the excess cash knowing that $100+ oil might not last. Whether this was good planning or just coincidence, I guess we’ll never know. It’s a good rule for everybody to follow. Don’t expect that the good times will keep on going...

I recently heard Sarah Palin basically saying the same thing about the oil in Alaska. But she said when oil was $100+ that she didn’t give into the state legislature’s demands to spend money and instead put it into a rainy day fund. At $40, I wonder how much they’re making now. Of course...

Just because someone doesn’t pay taxes doesn’t mean they are not hard working or not responsible. When someone works 2 jobs, 40+ hours a week and still can’t afford a small apartment or health insurance, something is wrong. Can you blame them for voting for what they thought they were...

I’m sure the same can be said about you.

Well I’m not looking to debate positions too much here, but I figured I’d take a small shot at a swing trade on the euro/usd. Maybe if I can manage to hold on that long, we might see a move back to 1.4000. Like I said, I really like to scalp, so we’ll see. I have a terrible trading past...

I also got the $25 account. I thought I got to keep the $25, but I guess that doesn’t really matter. I would catoragize myself as definitely one of the world’s worst traders. I’d been thinking about opening the $25 account as a way to have real trades, but no risk. Maybe I could actually...

Well I say it’s better to recognize a problem and have the wrong solutions, than to never see the problem at all. Republicans sometimes just don’t get it.

I signed up for the free $25 micro account. It’s frozen up a few times. Today I was short eur/usd when it was at 1.2828. I had a limit exit in at 1.2820. On my TOS platform I saw that it was heading down but FXCM was frozen. After it hit 1.2815 on TOS and stopped, I changed the limit to...