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    Devastating after hours trade...SCREWED!!

    No mistake on IBs part. You sold limit at 76 turned into a marker order as price was above you limit, ie IB filled you $10 better. Instead of complaining you should thank IB for saving you $10 a share loss
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    C# Developer Wanting To Learn Trading Strategy Development.

    A smart kid in a good state university studying MFE or in a graduate CS program can use this to leapfrog into the hedgefund industry.
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    Fed may push for rentals of foreclosed homes

    What is Free market capitalism exactly? It's become a religious mantra that describes a nonesensical philosophy that evil psychopaths will do good things for society. You want truly free market capitalism, go to third world countries with weak governments employing child labor and where 90%...
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    Fed may push for rentals of foreclosed homes

    Either that or it becomes a boarded up crack den for drifters are mentally disturbed rapists and serial killers. The religion of sociopathic free marker capitalism got us to this point, time to look at sensible alternatives.
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    The US government is bought

    What we have now is Government by the evil, for the evil. Nothing will change until media monopolies are broken up and elections are financed only with public funds. A Billion to be president for 4 years, highest bidder wins.
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    Black Hole Debt - 16 Trillion Dollars

    Deep down todays version of Capitalism is another form of Marxism. The heaving over worked collective of serfs funding the lifestyles of their wealthy masters. The result of Democracy on sale to the highest bidders.
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    A Christmas Message From America's Rich

    Popular Fallacy today: More tax cuts for billionaires = more jobs in America The reality: Every dollar The Waltons of Walmart save = more jobs in China The problem? The rise of the fanatical rightwing and their pollution and corruption of every facet of govt. We end up with severely...
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    Ib Quotes With Medved Quotetracker

    Timex watch, Honda Accords,Dyson vacuums.... Jerrys Quotetracker.......robust, intuitive, best in class.....products of genius minds.
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    MF Global: customers with warehouse receipts get 72%

    Daylight robbery with govt consent. This keeps up and hopefully someone will make a comprehensive list of lowlife regulators, CME officials and other enablers who knew about this. Since the goons in govt won't do a thing and keep on making baseless regulations to enable thievery, people need...
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    Bless his Seoul...

    Give homeland security and their enablng goons another decade. We'll all be crying like these people.
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    Can the Euro Survive until March?

    Going into 2004 had the largest historical puts. Many smart longterm traders started shorting and lost it all as the markets slowly grind up. Everyone saw the housing collapse coming, yet markets kept making new highs. Stupid stock market never reacted to reality until Lehman collapsed...
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    Are Doctors today basically just welfare recipients that put in a little work?

    Medicare isn't the core issue to escalating costs. High cost is due to horrendous diets, price gouging by protected health insurance providers and drug corporations. It can be argued medicare in fact saves money in the long term, making primary care available to many of these people. Avoids more...
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    is this a great country or what...

    this thread a joke. Thanks for the laughs.
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    2011: Rebuilding My Battered Account

    Past performance is not a predictor of future performance To finance fixed family costs it is preferable to invest in income producing assets. eg. 400,000 can be leveraged to control 3 millon in income producing real estate in any college town to produce the required income for family...
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    Using a hedge instead of a stop

    1. RTM or Range breaks out entries fail as often as they suceed 2. There are few high probability entries. 3. There is a quantifiable opportunity cost for a missed entry 4. If you are using trade stops, there are quantifiable costs associated with reentering a trade that is stopped...
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    Excel Trading right from Spreadsheet?

    ^ Valuable info. Thank you.
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    10% unemployment but H1B visas accelerating

    Fervent belivers of free market capitalism complaining about a friction free labor market Fervent belivers of Kenyesian debt fueled economies complaining about the size of the national debt Fervent belivers of social security complaining about social services while cashing in their...
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    Excel Trading right from Spreadsheet?

    How much time does one need to invest in learning the knowledge required to automate with Excel? Where do I begin to get to a robust excel based trading system that is semi automated?
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    Grinding it out, day after day

    Approximately 10 years of losing before making the break through using trading stats to eventual profits.
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    Kaufmann Risk of Ruin

    I don't understand the math but I'll make a few statements from experience: 1. For every trade Profit targets are good to have 2. If average profits equals 2x average loss, in the long run you'll do ok 3. Dollar cost averaging helps to minimize losing trades, but do it often enough...
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