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    1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed

    Unfortunately, i didn't vote. I went to school in Hawaii and didn't transfer my voting right over from NY, or whatever the proper terminology is.
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    VIX ETF/Futures/Options Discussion Thread

    now if you were putting butterflies on in vix futures, say long 1st month, short 2nd short 2nd, long 3rd. would you expect to be paying 4 separate nickle-wide spreads? if not, how would you go about putting this trade on to avoid 4 nickle spreads? what broker do you use? I'm running...
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    1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed

    For all arguing about government passing bills to keep student loan rates "low" or "high", keeping general rates low, etc... I am a recent graduate, i graduated last june. so you have an idea, my student loans weighted avg rate is 6.5% This is an accumulation of loans from 2008,2009,2010...
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    Forget gold seizures...

    I dont doubt that gangmembers from mexico are coming here, but i wouldnt believe a word i read from an article with such a sloppy and poorly written title. There r definitely better sources for what you want to convey.
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    Forget gold seizures...

    I believe your comment was a joke, but i couldn't read news from a site that puts news titles like that up..I read the title of the article and had to close my browser, "1.4 MILLION Gang Members And More Pour Into The United States Every Single Day" So in about 2 years roughly 1 billion gang...
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    dynamic exit in excel

    can easylanguage do calculations such as x day back standard dev, correlations, etc.? im assuming it can
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    dynamic exit in excel

    I am using excel/VBA and i am not yet familiar with c/c++, or other programming languages If you think this is the type of problem that is more easily solved in another language, please say so and i'll take this as my time to start learning something else. if you can also point out a good...
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    testing futures for rolls

    i'm not sure if you understand my question. i don't mind if im trading the day before a roll, i just want to make sure my system knows that and can give me the trading exit price based on the contract i traded and not based on the contract that is now designated as ux2 in bloomberg.
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    testing futures for rolls

    i'm running a back test in excel and i'm having a little trouble so i'm seeking some help. Background: my data is from bloomberg. I used the "generic" future tickers such as UX1, UX2, UX3 etc. and what this does is it pulls the front month contract for ux1, 2nd month for ux2 and so on. I...
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    VIX ETF/Futures/Options Discussion Thread

    Nevermind. i've got it.
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    VIX ETF/Futures/Options Discussion Thread

    do you know where I can get historical intraday data for VIX? (besides bloomberg) If you don't mind answering, is anyone using OptionsXpress? if so, what platform are you using to trade and monitor greeks, are you able to pull any streaming data into excel? sorry if i seem a little...
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

    oh oh i'm so sorry, i completely misread and though you said u entered a trade and if it doesn't work THEN you'll wait. sorry sir.
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

    why don't you just wait for something attractive instead? it will probably save you money in the long term
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

    ur over trading because your pissed about your lost profit. take a break.
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

    Ah i didn't want to make a poll and i'm sorry if I came off rude, good luck amigo.
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

    Thanks for the explanations, but please refrain from them in the future. My question was who's going long at the open, not why is the market down 30 points, and honestly, I hope no one is going long at the open, because then I know if I am, I'll probably be right.
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

    out. who's going long for the open?
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

    How did you short another right now? the marketz clozed
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    How on earth are the indicies markets all so extremely bullish??!

    It could be that everyone is overlooking what underlies the market indicies. In the case of the U.S. (S&P500) companies in the United States are posting great earnings for the environment we are in. This is forcing the equity bulls out of hiding and they start buying things up, especially when...
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    ES Journal Archive (2011)

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