Why not try the Series 65?
Gets you out of the I can't get a job situation without hanging your Series 7 somewhere....
I've found that passthetest.com has great study guides.
The only way to use leverage to grow astronomically is to allocate that leverage to uncorrelated strategies which by your immediate financial requirement is via an infinitely short timeframe... something not possible in 99% of all liquid markets...
TASC is not the greatest for an aspiring trader, but it is either their mag or Active Trader (much better) that has a chart every month or so that shows the liquidity in various contracts. Its near the end of the magazine...
their 13F is the most ugly and disorganized POS ever sent to the SEC... every quarter I wonder, how are they in business with such a mess on paper... its like they did that on purpose... its not alphabetical, not ranked by dollar cost.. etc... its just poof... here...
POS
Theres an article about them here:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0803/economy-housing-stocks-financial-strategy.html
Its a good article. Seems like a company with a future
For 2009 - Lecturing birds on flying (with a foreword by nassim taleb) by Pablo Triana - mandatory reading.
http://www.amazon.com/Lecturing-Birds-Flying-Mathematical-Financial/dp/0470406755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247424159&sr=1-1
Most books on trading are not particularily...
The performance of GS's quant strategy over the last two years has been beyond shit anyways- you would not want to run that code and expect to make any money whatsoever.
I think I recall seeing the performance of one of their main quant funds and it was down like 60% from the peak and AUM for...
I have a 226 BW and a 2253 BW, both are excellent.
The only thing is the base height changed from one model to the other when i upgraded to 2 monitors. Now there is a 1" book underneath one monitor...