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    Is a 2nd crash more or less likely?

    definitely going to happen again, and i suspect we'll close at the lows next time as well.
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    Sarah Palin on BP Oil Spill: 'We Need to Keep Drilling'

    i disagree- you know what happens to most failed traders? they become liberals, because they want all the free handouts that entitles them to.
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    NYSE says Electronic Trading Black Box for plunge

    they were profit-locking-in stop-loss orders that cascaded down. i guess you want to ban stop market orders too in your fantasy world. i'm fine with making the markets fair - (ie no sub-penny pricing, no queue jumping, no front-running orders, maybe even slow order placement down to hundredths...
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    It Was Cascading Stops In Futures

    +1 let's end the lies of a fat-finger causing this
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    SHOW me the person who "fat-fingered" the trade that caused this crash.

    i agree with the OP- yeah this graph looks terrible on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis- back it out a year-- can you say "profit taking at any cost"?
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    More Than a Million May Lose Jobless Aid Due to Deficit Concern

    um, i think people like her are supposed to get a job at some point. get off your high horse and work somewhere, even if it isn't higher paying than your last job.
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    America is next, mark my words.

    i agree, so make a few million in the next couple years and figure out a way to leverage yourself to the dollars demise.
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    Great wall of china project in us, kill two birds with one stone?

    because if you don't support illegal immigration in the US then you are clearly just a racist. at least that is the only argument i ever hear coming back.
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    What's Worse: Missing the Move Entirely or Giving All Your Profit Back?

    neither is bad i prefer to be involved when nothing is happening- hard to lose money that way and you can attack the market all day long with death by papercuts.
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    Obamacare & Adverse Selection

    why exactly was the status quo unacceptable? was it because we had the best health care in the world? because that's how I, along with every rich person and politician in the world previously felt. just link me to it when moore choppers over to cuba for his care- o wait that is right everyone...
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    Will Americans EVER be able to get out of debt?

    shouldn't we first give them california- i mean aren't you supposed to sell your toxic assets first so you don't have to keep selling stuff later on.
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    Will Americans EVER be able to get out of debt?

    how can we get out of debt when our plan for the foreseeable future is to continuously increase our level of debt combined with a demographic change that will likely leave fewer younger workers around to even attempt to dig our way out. the markets may rally for now, but if you are under 30...
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    Why does Germany depend for its demand on other people’s readiness to run up debts?

    hard to raise your consumer spending nominally when you have to imort millions of people just to keep your population numbers constant.
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    trading is really easy

    i would argue that you need to control risk and maximize your strategies profit potential. for me that is sizing up and up and up.
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    Jesse Livermore predicted today's markets 80 years ago

    hopefully it does, it is impossible to lose lots of money in this market- which in effect means it is free money for all as long as it lasts.
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    Base salaries for a trader?

    best places have almost no guarantees but pay out the best %. if you are gonna gamble (since 99% fail) my as well have as much upside as possible that other 1%. my firm gives a stipend each month you later repay when you are profitable (or don't have to if you fail)- but then you get 50-60% of...
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    Could someone explain what this means?

    it does not matter if it goes up or down afterwards, the breaking of the stops and the mini-rally that makes is the only out that they were really looking for. there are no real expectations of starting a huge rally after hitting the stops- they needed to hit those to get out of their already...
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    Could someone explain what this means?

    they push through everyone's stopouts because it then gives them liquidity on the way back. as they are buying markets for example they will just continue to buy until someone new comes along to grab that hot potato hoping to carry it up another price. once they get someone else to come in and...
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    What do you do to prepare for your trading day? heres what I do, advice please

    i consciously try not to know what "fundamental" stuff is going on each and every day i go to work. if while i'm trading something "fundamental" appears- i try and flatten up as quickly as i can. i'm not stupid enough to think i make money off of "fundamental" moves- i make money on days when...
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