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Is there any advise you would give other traders? (Mine would be to 'cut your losers quickly' as cliché as it sounds, I think it's important)

suggestion: option to add pictures to your profile i saw dealbreaker and marketwatch etc added this option and i have some funny ones hehehe

What did you do for income while you were learning to trade/ blowing up accounts?

True..but when you have a losing year 20 to 30% of profits is zero and with a fund you still get the 2% management fee :p

i belive that http://www.schneidertrading.com has an office in spain

you don't get 2% management fee at a prop

Good post, thanks. Am looking to branch out to currencies, commodities and bonds. Was thinking about getting some handholding, but come to think of it i might not need that.

particulary the broker assisted side? any good? any ideas on pricing?

it's Jérôme Kerviel

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interactivebrokers charges fed funds +0.5% as their best rate

a)yeah, i know, the yen carry trade seems a bit crowded though b)no idea about the direction of euro vs dollar, but i understand that's the risk in the position

borrow USD at 3.5% buy euro bonds yielding 5%? How much margin would you need? And what would be a good broker/ bank to do this?

why not ban put buying? ;-)

I visited Turkey in oktober. My mother was looking for a holiday apartment somewhere warm. I never saw anything like it: in the Alanya region alone there were 100's of empty apartments and half finished buildings and very little buyers. Project developers were offering us to pay half now and...

i wonder what kind of fees the private equity guy charges to his investors, it seems he has a very large overhead.

Cruising in my black AC Schnitzer BMW at 75 mph on a secondary road with my sunroof open, calling my broker on my Motorola Startac to buy RNWK in the summer of 98.

my take is a 'sell the news day' for stocks

In our defence The news this morning of the €5 billion rogue trading losses at SG has raised a lot of questions over the French bank's risk management. It's also drawn attention to the fact that the bank won Risk magazine’s equity derivatives house of the year award this year. The award was...

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