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Look at the Trump clan - they always have a scowling look like they just bit into a lemon. Being rich must be a real bummer. A study on peoples income to happiness ratio revealed that once people had a moderate stable income they were just as happy as the highest earners.

most small businesses (and ALL large businesses) are started with borrowed money 31 percent of small business owners opt to borrow at least some of their capital from family and friends, a full 75 percent of startup capital comes from credit cards, bank loans and lines of credit. Friends &...

The Gran Canary or the Greek island of Mykonos are my picks for Europe. My favorite island is Maui where I live. Getting out on the ocean does wonders for my trading.

I moved some $ into Fdelity to get 500 comm free trades (good for 2 years). Besides the $4.99 commissions they also have DMA to several ECNs (ARCA, NASDAQ, NYSE,Super Dot). Fidelity has many more commission free ETFs to choose from, the only penalty for exiting inside of 30 days is $4.95. TDAs...

I don't trust anything Michael Lewis says. Do you personally get better fills on IEX? Yes - I do get better fills on the IEX. Eric Hunsader (CEO of Nanex - micro market structure expert) I might add that today in 2013, it is any “limit” orders where the retail investor potentially gets...

IMHO those of us that swing trade futures, holding overnight to months, need a lot more capital in order to have a sound risk/trade mgmt strategy. At times we may be overnight on 7-10 different contracts. $50K is rock bottom entry, $200K ideal size to make it, $500+ well funded - this is a...

In these all time historical low overnight Fed rate era the sweep may not be such a big deal. When or if when get half way back to 'normal' the sweep is well into into the 5 digits for many people.

If the alternative for your family member is a CD then it's worthwhile to at least think about from a business perspective. It's far from a handout when profit, even potential profit is involved. ____________________________________________________________________________ Doing business with...

If anyone asked me for $ to borrow for trading or gambling I will write them off and give them a verbal whipping. The type of person that asks to borrow from friends or family is the least likely person to ever pay it back. If you want to trade be a real man and go earn it. Traders that make...

it seems that the smart router does not have access to dark pools IB/TWS can be configured to include dark pools in the smart router routes. Dark Pool Smart Routing Configuration A new checkbox on the Smart Routing page in Global Configuration allows you to instruct IB's smart router NOT to...

It was historic - but it was not the longest of largest run without a 1% down day. Source - Traders Almanac. Note - the tail end of March is often very volatile. April is the best Dow month on record historically. The tail winds of seasonality may push this higher. Many global indexes have made...

Some of the best futures traders came from the blackjack tables as former pros. Not saying trading is gambling, however they do have some damn fine skills already which can be tailored for trading. Nobody has made casinos go bankrupt faster than Trump, that is until one pro gambler called 'The...

Overnight - It seems like science is not your thing - you seem to think you know more than the experts in neurosciences. Shrinks view the quick big gains & loses as having as much or more impact on the brains reward (dopamine) than food, sex, & Cocaine/Heroin addiction. This is not a wild...

So you don't believe in MRI's? It makes sense to me - people when it comes to bursts of winning/losing a lot of $ go from blistering highs to gutter like lows and seem to lose all logic at times and go crazy. I don't see why a trader would doubt the effect of $ on the brains reward system - try...

I trade on my waterproof tablet while snorkeling ... in my dreams.

I trade the TF - not exclusively. I liked it a lot better before it was cut in half- it used to range approx $2,000 per day, those were the days.

Late at night, in a basement laboratory at Stanford University, Brian Knutson made a startling discovery: Our brains lust after money, just like they crave sex. It was May 2004, and Knutson, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the California university, was sending student...

Peter Lynch kept it real simple - he picked stocks of companies who products he used & liked & unlike many of his peers he cut the losers. It was well known that his Magellan fund was so big their purchasing of more stock shares was always driving the fund price up. Not sure if that is really...

Just pretend it's a computer game - that's what I try to do.

Trading, doing it aggressively...is sexy :wtf: :vomit: "Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead." Paul Tudor Jones