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Maybe they don't think they need to hide. I was asking a cop friend a while back where he hides to give out speeding tickets. His answer: "You don't need to hide." There are so many people doing it, you figure that the finger will never get pointed at you. Sort of like walking around...

You call that a nice person? I call him a criminal. BTW, I think he wanted the register to already be open.

I am laughing. It is so true. Many years ago, I went to medical school with a bunch of prep school/Ivy leaguers. They had been to Europe, Asia, knew how to golf and ski, knew Latin and Greek, knew who was who in the opera and the Broadway plays in New York. I did not know any of that stuff...

even if you cannot see the RUT index price on the market data lines in TWS, you will be able to see it in the option trader module

Very unfortunately, Tianenmen-type treatment of some of these peoples is possible. I am fearful of another Poppy Bush/Iraq type situation in which US language is interpreted by repressed peoples to mean that we will defend them, which we won't. The only people over there we are going to...

Amen

Yes, this is an issue. Should we vote here on the coolest annual report? I have 3 shares of SJM in an old account--left over from a merger or spinoff many years ago. I don't think much of the stock, but SJM produces the most artistic and delicious annual report in the world. Jam, peanut...

Try not looking at your P/L. I have begun doing this lately. I trade only in the first hour and a half. I recently turned P/L off when a nosy friend came to visit and found excuses to peek over my shoulder. And I found that I liked it that way. I just follow my rules--don't look at P/L...

Yes, great idea. SUCK or PEW or POS

It is just chance. You could just as well have been born earlier, invested in the 80s or 90s for 10 years, and made a pile. It is really a time frame issue. The investment advisors always show people longer time frames. Sure you can do fine if you can hold for 30-40 years, but most cannot do...

Maybe it sells books. People want to think they can feel/fake their way through things. Surely that should make us feel smarter than following a set of rules or a bunch of little squiggly lines on a chart. What did I read recently that claims the best traders are those in the sales...

Yes, you may find yourself getting batted back and forth by the stock's movement. You may cover by buying the stock, only to have the stock fall again. Watching the stock all day may not help you, because overnight gaps are often larger than intraday movements. Here is my suggestion: try...

Only the last one pisses me off-the rest are old news. I'm going to eat 20% less of the inflated food so that I can shit 20% less.

Propslave has it right. You gotta read. There is nothing that any of these 5K or 28K seminars is going to teach you that is not already in a book somewhere. In fact, that is pretty much the case for almost any subject in the universe. It's all in a book somewhere. My favorite, as I have...

I do not understand this. If you have two accounts (retirement and taxable) isn't it better to try to make the maximum amount in each, ie, trade each optimally, instead of letting one lie fallow? Isnt' it always better to make more money and pay more taxes? They will not tax all of it away...

Why do you think a qualified, experienced accountant cannot figure this stuff out? I do not think it is rocket science, just tedious and time consuming.

I knew it was you...

You don't have to day trade. You can become a week trader or a month trader. It is easier. There are more edges. It is far less time consuming. Of course, potential rewards are less (notice I said potential).

Please don't suggest it. Us west coast people would never get any fucking sleep.

I hope some more Chinese people will weigh in here. I heard a curious piece on BBC this AM; maybe some of you did, too. They interviewed rural Chinese residents whose homes were about to be destroyed by a damn project slated to deliver water to large cities. One stated he had been labeled...