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    Book Recommendations

    "The Tape" is actually on 8 Track now after the NYSE/ARCA merger.
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    I told you how to get an institutional trading job. I really do not care who you clerk for, I wish you all the best! hint: lose the 'tude.
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    This one Bro! "I am not a paralegal. I am clerking for a judge, which is prestigious in the legal world." Good luck, you will be eaten alive on a trading desk. I started out getting lunch, and am semi-retired now. PS: My next door neighbor is an A.D.A., I am going to find out who you...
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    Double my money (forex)

    Paper trading means alot when NOT Time Stamped. You must use a Double Ended Dildo!
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    BDGBDG's EGO would not fit in the door of ANY exchange from his responses!
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    You would be surprised! Lose the defeatest attitude, and start thinking positive dude. I am trying to help you. If you have passed the NY BAR get any job at any Brokerage firm in Legal/Compliance, it is better than a low life FLOOR clerk job. I have been there. It was a great stepping stone 10...
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    He never stated if he passed the Bar! Get a job in legal/compliance for an IB and become friends with a few key traders is the most logical "back door"! I know a real good guy that was a compliance nobody and weaseled his way onto an institutional desk and makes 500K or so, all because he...
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    Then why not do the logical thing and get a paralegal job, and study charts and the market every waking moment you have and "swing trade" outside of work hours. No reason you can't enter an order here and there from work.
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    Then remove it off your resume if you can not turn it into an asset! Working on an exchange floor is only going to frustrate you then. You will be perceived as arrogant and overeducated. Get a "job" at a Prop firm and give it a year. if you can't figure it out in a year, well then try The...
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    With Zero experience, as a favor you might get a $30K/year job. An experienced front-line Wire House clerk makes $100K + (including bonus) a year with MUCHO experience. You still have not stated why someone should hire you VS. some kid with summer experience on the NYSE floor?
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    Go hang out in front of Broad Street entrance to NYSE or North street NYMEX "smoking galleries" out front. you are not going to make $50K as a Clerk with no experience. I was a NYSE clerk for 3 years in the 90's before moving upstairs.
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    Trading Floor Clerk

    Find a frat brother or relative, or don't bother.
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    Cnbc

    Bloomberg gives me less of a headache.
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    Cnbc

    I would like to hear Alexis moaning instead!
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    Cnbc

    How annoying is that Whooooooosh sound every 2 minutes? Do the CNBC Crackhead producers think this is value added to play this noise every time a chart is displayed?
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    Bernanke's speach and the Treasuries?

    I hope you sold 'em well.
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    Bernanke's speach and the Treasuries?

    Market was oversold, and his babbling was already priced in to the market.
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    Bernanke's speach and the Treasuries?

    This is like shooting fish in a barrel. Waiting for the real spike's, when Ben Shalom speaks! I have a core position so I have bids and offers on the book between the fun.
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    Question on wash sales

    You do not need to list every transaction, just the net. Enter the 2005 Gain/Loss on form 6781 First, then carry over line 8 & 9 to Schedule D line 4. This is used for Section 1256 Contracts, (Futures). http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f6781.pdf#search='irs%206781%20%20%20form'
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    Question on wash sales

    No, just submit your net loss for the year!
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