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books: i read TONS of them before i made the career switch to trading. i still read books, watch videos, etc. when i can. i didn't use that as a substitute, but as a supplement...there would be situations, setups, etc. that i'd read about, and it would click in or be reinforced when i'd see...

nice trading! keep up the good work and helping others....and ignore the naysayers.

in bull markets - yes. in severe bears...no. it's like forms of denial. the first is "it's going to bounce back". the second is "please, let it bounce back". that's likely where we are now. the third and final one is "i can't stand this stock market stuff and never ever will touch...

if they're willing to go a little better and different for food...go to momofuku ssam or tailor. can't give you the poon angle (happily married, not looking) but for top cocktail bars, death & co. is def. good. so is pegu. actually, pegu's got lots to look at when i've been there...

i fully believe that you need to have a degree as SOME kind of fallback if you fail. i've tried several different things in my life which were out of the normal career path, 2 with entertainment industry, one with a startup, and now trading. the startup was my only "full-time" job, it...

i'm partial to the hamburguesa @pamplona, beef / suckling pig / chorizo. it's quite filling, don't plan on running around after. it's also a distinctive taste...

lots of my friends who work in the city report just what surdo, etc. say in terms of everything. most work in finance, but not all. and fortunately (unusually?) they all (save one person) still have jobs. nice tune, though. mr. marr appeared on guitars in it, and kirsty's done some...

vn's new venture; sue people who take the title of his book? well, at least it can't be any worse than his last two (fund) ventures....

google for the book, pdfs are out there. i believe the author chose NOT to reprint it; it's been out of print for a long time.

etfs never have had an uptick rule. however, there is no 'uptick' rule on stocks anymore.

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einhorn's been dead right about LEH. he's been saying the same stuff on LEH for a LONG time, and took a little pain - both monetarily and verbal abuse - when the stock was still going up / not going down. and stealing? proof? any? bueller?

really? why do you say that? he was dead right on LEH, and donates a chunk of his profits to charity. AND goes long/short (which is why his fund had a negative return, despite kicking ass with the LEH short, both fundamentally AND with the money).

check out robert sobel's book on panics; some of it is on books.google.com ...

can *this* (the VW squeeze) finally be the thing which triggers the real panic? i've been doing a fair amount of reading of past crises/panics, and there's always something which is the pinpoint trigger "panic!", but before that, plenty of reasons why things went down. so it could be...

that's why i wanted options... but these corners, short squeezes, etc. on real companies seem to end the same way - some people blow up, but the bubble gets burst when the govt / other company / large shareholder gives the shorts some way out, and the balloon gets deflated but fast.

damn, us citizens can't trade non-u.s. options (sec rule). ARGH....sec again...

any options available on VW here in the states? can't find any.... (just found some on IB, through IBIS)

actually, i've been reading a couple things... my thirty/forty years on wall street (worthington) and sobel's 1968 book, i think republishedin the 90s? of panics on wall street...

if it destroys the retail investors confidence, that's a GOOD thing. give it a year or two, and then the pros will start slowly buying things. the cycle goes roughly "gotta own stocks forever", then "no problem, i'm in this long term" to "man, i hope these stocks go up" to "i hate stocks...