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    Trade busts

    Sold KRE shortly before market Friday at prices 48-52 and again 58-59. They busted the 58's and adjusted them to 51. Amazing how these totally legit / non-erroneous fills in all those stocks listed were simply busted outside of the 20% range on a day like Friday. When I eat some ridiculous...
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    eSignal Continuous Contract Settings

    ** #f, i.e. es #F
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    Anyone else long QID?

    Still holding, but took 1/3 profit off table on QID here 43.5, from 37 area.
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    Anyone else long QID?

    . USAtrader 05-23-08 10:01 AM Yes, QID and SDS. Nobody wanted these when they were bottoming a week or so ago
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    Can you watch charts of two Equities, at the same time, on E-Signal?

    I routinely use Esignal with layout containing all in around 100 symbols quoted, 2 charts, news, and a couple other windows, linked together within Esignal, and to other programs as well. In addition, another layout I occasionally use contains around 20 different charts opened simultaneously...
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    Trading in Dubai

    Nobody will consider you a hermit loser if you're taking out size.
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    Firefox 3.0 is here (fast download mirror)

    Anyone else unable to reach logon area of locatestock.com using Firefox 3.0?
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    Someone bought 5000 LEH 10 puts for 1.45.

    Your statement is correct only as it regards day of expiration.
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    successful traders?

    Ditto.
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    Slaughtering the Sacred Cows of the trading industry

    For mutuals (relative return), that works, since that is their goal; index outperformance. For hedges (absolute risk-adjusted return), it doesn't.
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    Anyone else long QID?

    Yes, QID and SDS. Nobody wanted these when they were bottoming a week or so ago.
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    Assent

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    IBKR halted?

    Most likely just ahead of offering/pricing info.
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    Why is the market rallying?

    You're right. So few get it. It's not that there are more buyers than sellers. It's that the relative enthusiasm of buyers is stronger than that of the sellers.
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    NYC real estate is cracking

    The numbers would look worse if they were ex-plaza, ex-15cpw, etc.
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    IB eliminates margining on many stocks!

    Exactly. Seeing what happened on Monday with this group, and that rumors in general in this environment can cause a domino effect of demise, if you have a fair amount of capital in the firm, this sort of news is some reassurance that your the company is protecting your capital. Leverage doesn't...
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    Trading in Israel

    Have you been there?
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    SEASON 2, thursday TV WALLSTREET WARRIORS

    That's a daily rate. Go to Hertz and look at daily for a Ford Edge, multiply by 30 days = 3000. "Bad deal"? You're paying for a luxury and a service. A better number to use would be the membership at elite level. 27k for 90 days/3 = 9k / Month is your number.
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    Your trading expenses are how much % of your trading income?

    What it is or what they tell the IRS it is? :)
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