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    Dividend Stocks

    The trick is not to get lured in by the high dividend yield. 2% stock today can easily be a 6% in 4 years. Having said that AT&T and Verizon's 6%+ yield is hard to pass up along with few tobacco companies like PM, BTI, MO, RAI and LO. World class stocks are a good base to start out with. KO...
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    What were the high flying tech stocks of the 90's?

    And the most famous of all pets.com
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    Top Chinese bank regulator warns of loan growth risks

    Apparently this is a non-news because the Hang Seng is up 500+ points right now. This over bullishness is worrying.
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    How nice are people on elitetrader vs other forums

    Elitetrader and 4chan is about even.
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    Earning est's dn from march yet stocks up 40%?

    One time charges are also making some sectors look good like banks for example. Citi selling smith barney.
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    ASIA down 2% tonight!!!!

    HSI is a bit over normal. I check it few times a week and it's usually at around +/-200.
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    About the US System

    You just made his point Gubinec. We can easily destroy any military outside of the top 3. We just have a nagging problem of ideology but we can make glass parking lots at will to them and they can't do anything to aside from small scale covert bombings.
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    U.S. May trade gap falls on export strength

    That double digit billion figure used to mean something but it looks so tiny now.
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    Higher Minimum Wage Coming Soon

    Fire 1 and make the other 9 work 1.1 times harder.
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    Is talent required to be a top chess player?

    Susan Polgar is I think one of the most fascinating grandmaster. I wonder if brain hacking could be applied to trading. Of course 99% of people here are way too late try it because it needs a young mind. "There is an area at the front of the brain which deals with face recognition, allowing...
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    An Anectode That Speaks Volumes: Dollar Store Puts My Local Hallmark Store Out of Biz

    Haven't you gotten the memo. It's okay to be cheap these days. You can ask for discounts and use coupons without shame. I have personally switched to store brand foods.
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    How to make money in a deflationary, wealth destruction economy?

    40 P/E for a tech company is justified. Although I don't think they're a tech company anymore. More retail than tech.
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    IB and Yahoo Finance close price difference?

    Go with the Yahoo numbers. IB seems to be always off with their quotes. It shouldn't affect your trading that much, at least it haven't for me personally.
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    Will I get filled GE Bid 11

    Probably by end of the week. Of course when that happens I wouldn't be surprised if it easily goes to 10. I sold my large position at around 12.86 and I'm starting to get in at 11.50.
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    More bad news for those playing the home game

    Some people just don't get the immense impact of adding milliseconds to execution times. If you haven't been there, you don't know.
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    GS, BAC, WFC, C, JPM, MS earnings expectation Q2 2009

    Go to earnings.com you dope. All the info you'll ever need.
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    Rogue Trades Cost Oil Broker $10M

    I bet he was thinking that if he made a lot of money for the company he'll get a big fat bonus.
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    Smart Phone Suppliers

    http://www.isuppli.com/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=20398
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    If you Trade, you need to do this asap.

    No one really needs two internet connections these days aside from mobile internet. Take a laptop outside your house and you'll probably find couple of decent unencrypted wifi signals. I have AT&T for internet and my neighbor broadcasts his Comcast wifi without a password. Also, I've been...
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    Trading tax of .25% on all transactions! Have you seen this?

    That's good and all but the government doesn't really know how to spend money the right way. We're funding a slush fund for the government hacks that make it rain every couple of months with huge spending. Only an idiot would want to give them money; of course most people have to.
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