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    Market Cetera...Is It Worth Trying Out?

    trade wheres your link? I cant google your name and find a software product. Thanks
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    Market Cetera...Is It Worth Trying Out?

    Apparently it has no backtester - how do you test production algorithms for a trading platform without a backtester?
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    option strategy needed on FDA approval drug stock

    Dumbest biotech trade of the year if you are long - But Visium & Perceptive have bought calls and puts per their usual 13F filings... they are probably hedging with the stock. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1377452/000119312509028258/d13fhr.txt...
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    How Do Liquidity Providers Hedge Their Risk?

    Usually marketmakers have 100s of stocks that they make a market in. So their Event risk is never too high and their Market risk is hedged with futures. Then their is the option writing/buying component to this- buying OTM options and selling ATM... or viceversa. Long puts but hedging with...
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    Shorting Treasuries at Interactive Brokers

    I spent alot on bond books- The best one for begineers is Christine Ray's "The Bond Market" You should probably trade various inverse long bond funds so you dont lose your shirt first. There is TLT ETF you are probably best suited for, and a Rydex inverse long gov bond fund.
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    Technical analysis won't make big investor?

    You shouldnt listen to your friends - what do they know about your business? Technical analysis is about risk management. And good risk management is only limited by how liquid the market is. But anyways, ask your friend, he should know better.
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    trading desk anyone use

    Ikea Jerker (thats the name) Its adjustable so that I can work on a stool and stand up at the pc if need be..
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    What do u say when asked for Investment Advice?

    Aeliodon- you should monitor peoples behavior when you tell them something that comes true- the vast majority will run the other way. And if you come across people looking for a guru, they'll be telling you what to say about the Markets in no time. So either way you're screwed- so focus on...
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    Iran steals Marine One blueprints

    I wonder if its the same helicopter Bernanke uses
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    Have a Unique problem regarding sleep and trading

    Spend a $100 on a golite- I bought mine at Costco. Its more important in the fall/winter/early spring.
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    Soros Sees No Bottom For World Financial "Collapse"

    He was very wrong in 1998 remember.... Though this time its truly a synchronized global recession / credit crisis / demand destruction situation
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    Stanford, this is our biggest problem

    probably some kind of laundrymat- invest in illiquid risky companies that the buyer of the cd owns.
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    Stanford, this is our biggest problem

    how many cnbc goofs did he fly around in his plane?
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    If most daytraders lose money, then...

    If I am in the UFC and I punch a guy so hard in the face that I break my wrist or hand, it doesnt mean that simply not punching him hard will allow me to win....
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    Time Magazine Rates the top 25

    wasn't adolf hitler once man of the year according to this piece of firewood?
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    Obama to tell Canada: No more tar sands oil imports

    The way the US is heading they wont need oil - theyll be burning money for heat.
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    Series 7...

    I understand that the Series 65 is better- you dont have to be tied to a firm to take it.
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    Markopolos turned over a mini-Madoff to SEC

    http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/87087.html
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    Using Rate of Change for a beginner level ATS

    Its probably looking forward. ROC is only good against current volatility or in reference to a past period.
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    Hedging Only

    put it this way- if someone is able to make money going with the trend or against the trend, then someone is probably losing by doing neither. That should answer your questions - yes, but with risk of course.
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