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Thanks for your insights Jessie, very informative.

God damn cowboys, these guys are going to wreck a good thing for everyone.

I just bought a lottery ticket, and the first number is a 3. Comments?

You say that you have just graduated and you already hate your job? Why did you waste you time (and probably your parents money) in school without having a plan that you have researched? Maybe what you hate is the reality of working for a living and being accountable to bosses. Grow up and...

Chicken little renters, I like that lol. A friend of ours bought a place 3 years ago and did it up then found out they needed to move. Put the place on the market last summer for 2.6, sold for 1.8 and they lost over 400K. Sometimes the sky really is falling :-) Another case we know of had...

Have to agree with Martin. I have been renting a place here in Boston for $6K a month for the last year( was worth $3M when I started probably closer to $2.5 now as inventory above $1.7 million has increased 50% but sales have slowed and time to clear inventory is up from 4 months year ago to 15...

No, not automated, glad I didn't vote in the poll ;-) Jet lagged and can't sleep. Just checking in on ET and saw the thread but didn't bother to read it, sorry, disregard.

Different trading styles ES. I have reached max drawdown (blow out) a few years too though thankfully not in the last decade. I start each year with $100K balance and my max draw down is $150K (I stop trading for the year if I hit it). Not a style that everyone can or would want to emulate. Just...

I have done at least 1% a day 5 years out of 20+ I have been trading, in a few of those years did substantially better than 1% a day (4%+). It is all about account size. It is possible to make 1% a day on $100k if you are very lucky very good and in the zone the whole year, it is...

ES what are your returns? Audited?

I guess you were close enough on goog after all surf, good trade. Very nice short on the dow. Enjoy the weekend.

Didn't someone say something about not being able to make money shorting goog...

cool web, what comedy club do you work at? You are a riot!

I am happy for you surf, it isn't often we get a reprieve like that we we are early (and we all are from time to time in this business). Hope it keeps sliding for you.

Not just western. Know a guy I went to school with, native Hong Kongese, lives there now and holding over 700 units in Shanghai. Looking to unload no earlier than 2010.

What would be more interesting to me is to know if you mentioned your Goog trade to him and if you did what his thoughts were?

I have to agree with H. You are an experienced trader though and have been around the block so no doubt you are well hedged, maybe even making a bit on money on the trade by now. When ever I am wrong I always hope to very very wrong as that is when my hedge (usually some options stragetgy)...

What city do you work in? Good luck with fulfilling your new potential.

Surf I have a lot of respect for those who ply the short game, Fleck especially and am often on that side myself and have made money shorting Goog in the past. Takes a great deal of conviction but also a great deal of DD and superb trade management, not to mention a very good feel for the...

Hope you are right surf, looks to me like it is at the beginning of another move up and I think $500 is probably in Goog's future this year but am not in it either way. Do you hedge your position by buying some calls or long other techs or just play it outright? With a stock this volatile why...