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    100K Account Risk/Reward

    Because your talking about RISK managment, and even though you think you have set your max risk to 2%, that's a nice idea but not always true. Anything could happen, maybe the accountant has been robbing them blind and suddenly you find the stock halted, when it opens its going to be down 50%...
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    Why Didnt Russia-georgia Battles Have Any Market Impact Today?

    You should look at the long term trend, but you should also understand the big picture, and look at the most recent trend. The dollar has broken out strongly, is now making higher highs and lows. It has more strength now against EVERY major currency than its had since 2005. The likelyhood is...
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    Shorting MCD (McDonald)

    Insults can for sure be good contrarian indicators. In this case though I suspect you have someone who is just buying into the trend is your friend dogma without consideration of anything that actually relates to MCD.
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    Shorting MCD (McDonald)

    good luck with that
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    Russian tanks in Georgia, 1000s dead, market rallies who cares...

    From Stratfor Editor’s Note: The following is an internal Stratfor document produced to provide high-level guidance to our analysts. This document is not a forecast, but rather a series of guidelines for understanding and evaluating events, as well as suggestions on areas for focus. The...
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    Russian tanks in Georgia, 1000s dead, market rallies who cares...

    South Ossestia has a population of 70,000. Russia is telling the Georgians that they can not do whatever they what, likely telling them and the Ukrainians not to join NATO. No one is upset about it, it will probably be over before the Olympics. War is always tragic, but not always meaningful.
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    Why Didnt Russia-georgia Battles Have Any Market Impact Today?

    We agree on something. Just because all the politicians are still complaining about it and the news media tells you its so doesnt mean it is.
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    What Do You Want In A Trading Room

    There are a couple of places that do, (did) provide this type of service in a room. Excellent post.
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    russia/georgia

    What happens in South Ossestia and Georgia will be of great interest to China as they deal with Taiwan IMHO.
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    Free Mentoring

    I want to set this tentatively for Sept 6th using gotomeeting, which I think will allow me to have as many people attend as would like. This will be free, and I also have no upsale. What I would ask is that if you do attend and find it useful please donate $100 or so to Cancer research. Two good...
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    Why does no one here give detailed trading advice?

    It's very rare that something worth having is just given away.
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    I want to break something

    You just dont.
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    oiltowns

    If you dont have friends and family etc there, trust me, it's not worth moving to South Dakota just to save some taxes.
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    For those who are lazy and cannot think

    the articles and calls in Toni's room occured BEFORE I bought the stocks.
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    For those who are lazy and cannot think

    I've not done too much trading at all this year because of my of health and just not liking the market too much, but on June 20th I paid an average of $25.10 for 12,000 shares of AFAM. This represented a position of 30% of my personal account. Its been by far the most productive trade of the...
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    Speeding up learning from experience

    Teach what you do know, its an amazing teacher.
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    oiltowns

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/05/oil.boomtown/index.html
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    Jesus these swings are killing me

    I don't really know anything about options except how to lose money, but in trading in general if I find a market is not working out for me I tend to just step aside and wait. Cash is a trade.
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    When will YM,ES,NQ,DAX,FTSE stop tracking inversely Crude Oil?

    When people stop worrying that oil prices are going to effect the market and the economy.
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    can you short the damn banks now?

    You CAN do anything you damn well please.
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