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    House Building Margins

    factor in the cost of losing your life for a year, possibly losing your marriage, and maybe your marbles, and you can't help but find it a bargain.
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    Who is more free between the two ?

    market makers are part shark, part whale, part manatee. daytraders are barnacles.
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    US Government running surplus during last 3 months!

    it's all Bush's fault.
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    Who is more free between the two ?

    well, if business was only about one's own comfort, this might make sense. but business is about participating in the allocation of goods and services to people who need them, earning a profit in process. work is not leisure, except to sponges. and this, to recapitulate from another...
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    how to trade the vix?

    well, you'll get all the info that google thinks you need, at least. but don't get me started on that.
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    TICK/TRIN , not as useful once you advance into an advanced trader???

    I'm not sure about that. chasinfla used to post some good stuff on VIX, TICK, TRIN, and short interest on the NYSE. If you pull some of it up, you'll might see some long term apps.
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    BIDU - ipo day trading stories

    it all comes down to taking a calculated risk. even in a casino.
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    NYMEX Clearport

    I'm curious where you're doing this from... Someone at the FCM has to OK your access to Clearport, as I understand it. Your rep or risk manager should know how to do this. Where do you clear and if you wish you can pm me that. Again, it's curiousity.
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    BIDU - ipo day trading stories

    sounds like ipo fever is back. dow 25000, here we come!! lots -- LOTS -- of money on the sidelines.
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    Barrons Article on China & Penny Stocks

    I'm not a subscriber, that's why I got and posted the page. Go out and buy it, get some iced tea, put on the Yankees game and kick back on the couch and read it. You'll know what it means to be a real speculator then!
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    BIDU - when will there be options on it?

    facts. just facts. of what use are facts to a trader? Now, I thought that there was holding company in the Caymans that owned shares of some shell company in Carribean, who's main stockholder is the second cousin (by blood) of the former CEO of Yukos oil, now jailed in Russia. Anyway...
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    Barrons Article on China & Penny Stocks

    yeah, it sure is a great article. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=809285 height = 400 width=650></img> so, are penny stocks going to be any better in China than they were in the US?
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    MY FIRST 1G Day

    congrats. I can't even recall my first 1g trade. but it's a whole different market.
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    London bombing support line

    oh, is this one of these "the war is ocrchestrated for the economy" fantasies?
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    Market or Limit order?

    you're gonna get hacked either way. depends on whether you want to actually get shaken out and lose money, or just sit and watch the market run away from you.
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    Louis Borsellino vs Goldman Sachs

    there's a risk/reward ratio in asserting a claim.
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    mozilla sells out

    on selling out: at the heart of every holier-than-thou socialist is teeth-baring-greed-filled capitalist pretending not to be. it's the ultimate "passive aggressive" behavior.
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    I am doing ok, but where is the up side?

    "Duke and Duke always get the commission." "But where are the clients' yachts?"
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    Losing Streaks / Chain Losers -_-'''

    hey, even sammy sosa has a bad season once in a while. even the Yankees have a string of losers. But they always fight back, homey.
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