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    Video aptly showing why Banks are 'zombies' (propped up by lax regulation)

    disgusting, and sad, has anyone tied this activity back to those who allowed it to happen and fester in the last 8 years during the Bush Administration? has anyone figured out why under his administration, this happened to the extreme?, although these situations happened before, why to...
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    Oh Oh, Might have to take a tax hit, got a HUGE profit thoughts?

    surprising how being licensed traders (if series 7 licensed) and giving advise, all these posts open themselves up to recriminations (actual cases exist, as well as these very same questions and situations are posed on the tests) either way, its good someone with trader taxation experience...
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    NyBot rumored to be closing....

    humor alive and well, and all current news articles too.....:D
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    NyBot rumored to be closing....

    you caught that, huh? someone's awake here.... :D
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    NyBot rumored to be closing....

    Rumors Fly on Nybot Closing Trading Floor By Ivy Schmerken Oct 23, 2007 at 05:53 PM ET One more trading floor is turning into an endangered species if the rumors in yesterday’s New York Post are true. Yesterday, The New York Post reported (on Page Six) that New York Board of Trade...
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    Nailed a quant job at a hedge fund!

    well, the pay will be reward enough, this board does have a very competitive streak, that's the nature of traders, its required to be jealous of others successes, that's why we challenge those brave enough to post their P&L on the most read threads on these boards... either way...
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    Oh Oh, Might have to take a tax hit, got a HUGE profit thoughts?

    Here's my thoughts, isn't that what you're here for?, and here to do?, namely have huge gains in trading? cheers? ok, guys, hey, guys, drinks on this guy!
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    Trader P/L 2009**With TIME and or SALES

    there are many that appreciate the time and effort taken, there are many that have left and not returned, there are many that just don't know why they bother, and there are many that aren't real, just (whatever), just not real. thanks for sharing and making the rest of us see...
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    Confessions of a successful trader

    please explain independent contractor and trader? is this some new category of distended trader for a firm, without liabilities to the trader? is this some form of proprietary trader status? never heard of this combination, pm me if its too personal or company specific, would really...
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    Confessions of a successful trader

    agreed, its not as flashy as the movies or pundits portray the job to be... and yes, what it takes to be an independent trader versus a paid trader for a house are a completely different pair they aren't the same....
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    HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy

    not sure how you came to that conclusion, not willing to engage a discussion on that avenue, perhaps, taking off one's spectacles, cleaning them of all the debris and smudge marks, and seeing this cleanly and clearly will change that vision you're having... hey, just that, such an...
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    HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy

    The GBP reined supreme for a time, The USD has and continues, but whatever is happening is the churn that was always bound to happen, If you say China, then its Yuan will need to be floated in more countries other than just those that it is vacuuming up all their resources with long term...
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    Lack of brains does not explain this echo in my head

    see that commercial on the business channel where the broker walks inside his ear and sees all his thoughts, and the old professor says: "this one has been here a long time", it was his full grown-up size, or representative of his thoughts on trading ETF's what a commercials seems...
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    movies on trading

    I too was bothered, even sickened to my stomach. he lacked any sense of a mathematical comprehension of basic daily graphing of the market action, that would have at least given him the outside view instead of the tunnel vision being on the floor always creates, even a basic comprehension...
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    Hedge Funds and Banks Resume Hiring

    oh joy, then the smooth moves in the markets will be replaced with the skittish trading patterns that destroyed all these algorythmic firms in the first place
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    Zen Fire data feed in fast market

    no success on 64bits there are some that claim that it works, too many have found otherwise
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    Zen Fire data feed in fast market

    X is awesome for eXecutions. X Study is paultry for charting and limited in their analytics, however, their canned studies provide some of the best most common choices. Stochastics, etc, just to name one. Ninja is like the AAPL iPhone with their apps, its worth the camera / cell phone /...
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    Zen Fire data feed in fast market

    are you talking timer refresh under properties of the T&S? being set to false from true (default)?
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    Bond Bears Dumping Two-Year Treasuries Defy History

    just ask all those Madoff clients...
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