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    Has this NIGHTMARE happened to anyone?

    name the broker so we can all avoid... thanks
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    In NYC with technology, ...seeking enlightened Prop

    steve cohen will be knockin on your door ASAYGYST As Soon As You Get Your Shit Together.......
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    Recommendation on Series7 material

    I'm using "pass the 7" to prepare. Its good so far. http://www.amazon.com/Pass-Training-Guide-NASD-Exam/dp/0912301716
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    BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill

    Short sellers out clubbin.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMglajE3AQU&feature=related
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    I know why most retail investors fail to beat the market

    You should start backwards to identify the source of all this financial and emotional contention. I.E: Why do most people who start businesses close them after the first two years or so? http://www.growthink.com/content/6-untold-reasons-why-businesses-fail...
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    List of Optionable Stocks with Earnings due before July10 Expiration

    sorry - link is down. Try investors.com Quotes Plus data can separate out optionable stocks as well. http://quotes-plus.com/joomla/index.php Quotes plus has a field called Is Optionable - returns a 1 or 0 and you could use that in your filter or strategy to rank positions.... this is...
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    List of Optionable Stocks with Earnings due before July10 Expiration

    http://www.investors.com/products/default.aspx?id=dgg-n
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    Hungary to default before Greece?

    Read up on Dave Rosenberg's letter - "breakfast with dave". the latest and greatest thing driving consumer consumption is the "strategic default" on your mortgage.
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    Trader for Bunge, Cargill, ADM

    There is a story in "invisible hands" - stephen drobny's new macro trading book about a woman who worked at Cargill for a while and really became a highly paid hedge fund manager after. The interviewers aren't mentioned by name, but it sounds like a good career builder place. It seems to me...
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    Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?

    I'm sure she could roll over some long bonds for me.... I might initially worry about slippage, but I'm sure I could get filled using some volume weighted much better than average pricing algorithm.
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    Degree related to trading

    Ferdinand's explanation is bang on. gucci - I think you'd have to distinguish between how people plan to do things and how they do them in the real world in this case. Soros is not supposed to be perfectly aligned and logical, especially when hes dealing with reflexive and asymmetrical...
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    Degree related to trading

    I would do a driveby on Soros' comments and say that it represents an appreciation for risk. Theres some underlying element of phenomenology there, but nothing that would contaminate him as a trader. Also, the dichotomy between thought and reality is really just the appreciation of...
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    Degree related to trading

    The first good trade you make might be realizing that a college/university education is overpriced.
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    Goldman sold BP Right Before Spill

    You would have to look at the value of CDS exposure on BP and determine the counterparty. That might open up a can of worms. The equity side is kind of less important imo. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0216875320100602?type=marketsNews The BP CDS is worth about 6x more than it was in...
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    How client "A" manipulated coffee futures...

    My coffee always gets manipulated. It started when Starbucks set everyone to 20 hrs a week or less... I've never had the right tasting coffee since.
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    Anybody else short US 30 Bond

    rounder -pls explain what you mean around the roll?
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    Canada Q1 growth most in a decade - 6.1% - 2x USA growth

    I feel obliged to point out the highly engineered economics of Canada.... Most of which has been able to absume debt for the past while, servicing it with resource and inflation backed (real estate) investments. As soon as investors get a taste of deflation, the jig is up...
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    GLD vs PHYS

    There's a couple people in Canada worth a few hundred million each that like to read the COMEX strip everyday.
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    Can someone make sense of this Israel-NPT thing?

    methinks some liberal dirt is about to get dug up.
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    Biggest interview in my life coming. help

    looks like a shitty me too quebec PE firm... Their portfolio is full of very low quality tech stuff and mediocre service/industrial businesses. Sounds like they need low cost / student labor to keep afloat.
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