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    Can you hit your own bid from your other account?

    i remember seeing this set of er2 trades on globex in may of last year. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=743764&highlight=market+wild#post743764 several >400 lots popped off in rapid succession on a holiday friday afternoon right before close. were these...
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    Voters wised up?

    not so different from knowing you're going to vote republican in 08 before you know the candidate and platform
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    Is IB a Bucket Shop

    timber hill's profitability dwarfs ib's by an order of magnitude, both parts of interactive brokers group
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    Finally the truth slips out - It's all about the oil

    But the freedom Kennedy offered the Iraqis to drill their own oil to the maximum was swiftly taken away from them by their Arab brethren. The OPEC cartel, controlled by Saudi Arabia, capped Iraq's production at a sum equal to Iran's, though the Iranian reserves are far smaller than...
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    Finally the truth slips out - It's all about the oil

    this is a diff angle on the question http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406J.shtml Keeping Iraq's Oil in the Ground By Greg Palast AlterNet Wednesday 14 June 2006 World oil production today stands at more than twice the 15-billion a-year maximum projected by Shell...
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    Saddam found guilty

    he should wear his key to the city of detroit if they do carry it out
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    Specialist manipulation

    thanks vm for the info Don. i just don't understand why they would need to do this, who it really benefits. i mean why should one participant in the whole market be able to shut out anyone else even for a second as they attempt to match their orders. they're just one market center. i...
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    Specialist manipulation

    is there a legitimate reason for the specialist's ability to lock the book, and thus lock people completely out of being able to sell a position? i've always wondered why IB doesn't filter out the specialist crossing his quote so a position can still be sold on other market centers
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    tradestation freezes

    anyone else freezing last few minutes
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    PPT update: US authorities believe the roaring bull market is just a suckers' rally

    to quote a funny post on another board, "would a $2 trillion mkt sell order move the market?"
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    anyone having problems with Tradestation this morning? 10-26-06

    yes same here, tried a bunch of different servers, still very sluggish or not loading data at all
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    Sorry guys no chance for a down day

    cool just checking
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    Sorry guys no chance for a down day

    what's your actual position mav, just out of curiosity
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    Anyone trade the QM during inventory?

    it's interesting they launched qm with a sort of disproportionately granular .025 tick when it was trading at 30. i wonder if that was a bit of a subtle tell about the time since
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    ET Posters As Contrarian Indicators

    i always crack a warm smile when i see certain ppl here asserting themselves in the opposite direction of a position i've got some of these guys are just serial failures with absurd denial issues, sorta like an obnoxiousness to correctness ratio
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    Go futures go!

    tempting to view it as an attempt to manipulate technicals. effectively cuts tomorrow's potential downside range in half
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    Interesting Diatribe on Politics & Fear

    using fear to manipulate voters in this manner should probably be illegal http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061021/pl_nm/osama_dc WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans unveiled an advertisement on Friday featuring the image and words of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a warning to voters that...
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    My New, Simplified Plan For Iraq

    maybe it was more about keeping that oil off the mkt
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    miNY Crude Down

    good reason to get the IPE stuff going
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    Testosterone drugs for trading?

    i drank the powdered OJ from an MRE once and my friend and i could swear we were amped to get in some fights or something
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