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    Bond Trader 2007

    It's time to go short, man.
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    How they really made lots of money...

    I doubt that covered calls helped him boost his returns. He might have used them simply to smooth out the volatility.
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    How they really made lots of money...

    Yes, the profits are bigger but they are splitted between all members in proportion to everyone's contribution. So where is the leverage? People didn't make Warren Buffet richer by giving him their money. On the contrary he made people richer by producing those returns for them.
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    How they really made lots of money...

    How people's money can leverage their 20% return? It's still the same 20%. This guys are not in some ponzi scheme with more and more people pooling their money to make very rich just a few.
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    Need help: leverage calculation

    This does not say anything particular, good or bad, about this broker. The people should simply know in general that forex is unregulated, over the counter business so they have to be extra careful with any broker.
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    Closed-end Fund Income Investing

    Yes, the distributions were $0 for dec and jan. By the way this happened also before. http://www.ishares.com/fund_info/distributions/detail.jhtml?symbol=TIP
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    Traders in Russia

    I am just wondering what broker firms you guys are using to trade in Russia?
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    How is everybody's health?

    That's exactly right: small meals every 3-4 hours. People with stomach ulcer live by this rule. So should healthy people too.
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    What would you do with $1 million?

    Keep doing what you were doing prior to that. I don't believe you clients want you to change dramatically your trading style.
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    If so many people are unsuccessful traders...

    The problem with a losing strategy is in realtime decision making to enter and exit positions.
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    dbFX / FXCM / RefcoFX...does it ever end??

    If so the next question would be then: what dbFx has to do with deutsche bank if their reps work for FXCM?
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    If so many people are unsuccessful traders...

    The opposite of a losing strategy will be a losing strategy too.
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    IB single account for two persons

    Half buying power means each one will still have $15000 to trade. IB won't let them daytrade anyway, right?
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    IB single account for two persons

    But with 50/50 set up IB would know that you have only $15000 for trading and I believe it won't let you daytrade anyway.
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    Hidden Fees in IB

    Do they document it somewhere that the order of less than 100 shares will be canceled?
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    spread tax

    Didn't you sell @70 contract before, bought it back and now you want to buy it again which is reverse of your original sell? I am not a tax expert but in my mind your situation is not the same as buying a stock, selling it at loss and then buying it again that produces a position which is...
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    US buildup in Persian Gulf

    Here is quote from this article: 'To further the goal of non-proliferation and as a confidence-building measure between States parties' Iranians act like they are not bound by NFP and they do nothing to contribute to confidence building between them and the Security Council.
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    US buildup in Persian Gulf

    Do they do it now? I don't think so.
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    FX Options

    ikongm.com
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    True story of sacrifice, what life is like with brains, balls, but without bucks

    How do you pay your bills if you don't have a job and capital to trade?
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