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What possible reason could compel a prop firm to be so desperate for traders that they would make the type of deal you've suggested to a newbie?

maybe topsy-turvy should talk with those chia-pet people about jointly developing a chia that is bristling with delicious cherry tomatoes!

Hmmm.... It has been about 6 months since "game over" was declared in the first post of this thread. I'm not arguing or anything. Just wondering what the triumphant proclamation will be in another 6 months. I guess we'll find out when we get there.

Any style of trading can be a sure-fire way to blow out your account if you don't know what you are doing or use too much leverage. I know of many traders that use market-neutral strategies and have been successfully trading for years. I also know plenty that blew through their account in a...

Makloda, you dare to question the King of Shorts!

LOLOL! wheres hedgefundtrader, he should be in here crowing too! Death to evil short sellers! Hurrah smarties and Web v6.7! $7.00 deli sandwiches for everyone! Dow 36000 by tomorrow afternoon! Sorry, just couldn't contain myself

LOL, ratboy, ain't that the truth!

Jones247, the Brights do allow long-term positions in pairs, and spend quite a bit of time in their training programs going over this strategy. I think you will find that if your overnight positions are generally market-neutral, you can carry a fairly large $$ value relative to your account size...

Everyone in Congress seems to be crying about homeowners losing value in their homes. Nobody seemed one bit worried a few years ago about home prices going up 25-30%/year for several years running in many areas of the country. I guess all the no-down payment and teaser rates were just a...

I like Frank Grimes' idea! We need a daily thread featuring Stocktrad3r and Hedge, with their invaluable market commentary and advice. We could all rake in a fortune by taking advantage of their collective wisdom! If we had all been taking their advice over the past few months alone, uh...

Obama seems to be the only major candidate left who has actually proposed a timetable to pull out of iraq, and even he is giving himself 18 months to clean the sh-- off of GW's shoes.

LOL, another thread starter opined recently "Gasparino should be jailed". Investigated, jailed, why waste time, anybody got a rope?

The Dems were crying like babies as soon as Bush put social security on the chopping block. Admittedly, having paid into the "system" for 20 plus years, I was a bit uncomfortable with the idea of private accounts at this juncture. A bit selfish of me I suppose (I guess I too am part of the...

Thx for the reply Jayford. I understand and agree with your statement regarding the Laffer curve. To a certain degree, we saw that theory in action with the Bush tax cuts. I'm all for lower taxes. I'm sure that I can think of many better uses for my $$ than feeding the government bureacracy...

It is very frustrating in that, beyond using your vote to make a statement that won't be heard, by voting for someone other than the two choices fed to us by the two major political machines, what can I do? Send letters and emails to my congressmen? BahHahhah, and become one of the handful of...

Thanks for the reply, TGregg, I thought about posting in politics, but on the other hand, consider the issue to be equally important in regard to the economic impact.

Why are candidates that promise to attempt to practice fiscal responsibility unelectable??? As a voter, it has become a process, like a previous poster stated, of holding your nose and picking the least objectionable candidate. If you go out on a limb and try voting for some no-name party...

Are any of the popular candidates pledging to stop spending $$ faster than they can get it off the presses? With the prospect of mushrooming social security and medicare expenditures, along with a stifling defense budget, (thanks for your wonderful "Bush doctrine", GW. That's worked out...

All of that studying is great and should give you a leg up, especially if you can spend some time with a successful trader. Unfortunately, all the study, backtesting, and paper trading won't fully prepare you for the emotional impact of having real dollars on the line. Part of your...

its easy to say "lets get rid of all these onerous regulations and let businesses flourish!" But weren't many of these regulations put in place as knee-jerk reactions to some type of corporate misdeeds? If there hadn't been Enron, Worldcom, would we now have Sarbanes-Oxley? If not for gross...