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I just got a toshiba P25 series with the 17" screen. I hooked it up to a 21" crt monitor and windows allowed me to extend my desktop across both screens without any additional software or cards.

I too am an arbitrage trader and routinely use leverage of 50:1 for weeks at a time. All extremely low risk, which is why the leverage works. My question is about the cost to carry such highly leveraged positions. What kind of haircut are you arb guys paying and how negotiable is this with...

The original question was "How much commissions do you pay as a percentage of your gross P/L?" If you pay $300 in commish for $400 gross, that's 75%. And paying 150 to make 400= 38% But your point is well taken for someone trading a lot relative to what they make. And trading IS a...

Day trading account, 30-50%. Long term trading account, about 3%. The only thing that matters though is the bottom line. A high volume strategy will be commission intensive, but give you lots and lots of opportunities to apply your edge and might net you a lot more than than infrequent...

Trading multiple strategies in one account and using good record keeping to track what's really going on would foil all attemtps to figure it out.

Not fungible, can't short, 99 shares maximum size. Limited stock selection and they can make a market in the stocks. "Due to market volatility and high trading volumes, system access and trade execution may be delayed." Commissions between 5 cents and 2 dollars per individual share, only...

Great idea, as long as the securities are fully fungible on the regular exchanges. Can you sell short with this operation?

Dave, are you trading etf's or closed end income funds?

See? Your post was up a whole day and a whopping 70 people have even LOOKED at it.

Yes it's true. There are soooo many ways to extract money from the financial markets. I've gravitated to basically cherry picking the easy stuff (it's out there). Q: Why continuously bang your head against a wall? A: Because it feels so good when you stop.

Barry, I've posted numerous arb questions and opinions on this site and they always fall on deaf ears. It's the easiest, lowest risk way to make money, but no one is interested in it. They all want to know how to make two points in ES. I don't do much M&A arb, usually just on newly...

I downloaded the new Napster music service, but it won't work for me because it's only available in the US. What setting on my computer do I have to change to trick Napster?

The west coast citrix sever was down for about 5 minutes this morning, but I didn't get booted from the vpn connection at all today. Are you in an office?

Yes, tell us how you got to over half a mil this year while spending a couple weeks in Costa Rica to boot! :)

The bottom line is you have to find something that meshes with your personality. There are an unlimited number of ways to take money out of the financial markets, but only certain types of traders will be successful with certain strategies. I would suggest you get exposure and some training on...

Preferred stock would be a good alternative to corporate bonds. They are traded on the major stock exchanges just like stocks. They usually have a face value of $25, so it's easy for the average investor to buy them. They pay quarterly or semi-annual dividends and are valued the same as...

Who's L2 combines ecn's and nyse into one box?

Would it be possible to somehow share a Bloomberg terminal over the internet between two people? I was wondering if you ran it on a dedicated machine in one location and had software that allowed another person to see and take control of that computer from another location, would that work?

It's called a specialist handling fee. He gets an extra cent/share for limit orders on the book more than 5 minutes. Obviously a cash cow for them, not like it requires any extra work on their part. The thing that sucks about automatic cancel and re-sending of orders is that you loose your...

My advice to you is just to say you are going for a holiday and leave it at that. I have had problems entering the country just to visit my office. It is hard to explain to people what a trader does and not infer that you are somehow employed by someone or working for someone. They are...