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    former CNBC Ron Insana and SEC

    CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/20073096/ MSNBC has, ah..., other objectives for a few months.
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    T3 Capital

    ???
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    FRE & FNM Being Taken Out By Fed: Dollar Effect

    According to news item after hours, Fed is taken over FRE and FNM before Monday, shades of Bear. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135621 How bad an effect on USD come Monday? As reference, USDX hit all time low during Bear fiasco. It's beeen on an incredible...
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    U.S. Plans to Seize Fannie and Freddie

    Got to stop dropping acid. Too many flashbacks!
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    Problems trading through Optimum online

    Are you able to get DSL where you live? What's the status of Verizon's rollout of FIOS, as they seem to be coming into more and more neighborhoods in NJ. I had a similar problem with my internet service provider and connectivity reasons. Couldn't get cable (building not wired for it and does...
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    Anyone trade FX on IB IDEALPRO and do you see Volume?

    Funny Thread! Curious to anyone who would try to incorporate volume into their analysis when it comes to trading spot fx. A question: if volume is important to determine certain price points or price action, how would you incorporate the volume from EBS and FXAll and LavaFX and assorted...
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    soo ..... FX brokers?

    :D Plenty of info here in this section that should answer your questions. Just take some time and read a bit and you will get your answer.
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    Why is there a 6 pip spread on the EURUSD right now?

    Some brokers have Currenex platform which they offer to clients for ECN spot trading. Can't speak for them as the spreads and costs will vary from broker to broker as each will have different liquidity agreements between banks and such. ADM, MF Global, GFT, FXCM and CapitalForex Pro (London).
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    Oil Down $4 on Gustav News

    I think we are due for a dead cat bounce on Tues and Weds. This drop was a little exaggerated on thin volume. I'm looking for $2-3 from here, then out.
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    Autotrading SPOT FX on IB ideal

    1.) Ninja Trader 2.) Ninja Trader
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    Oil Down $4 on Gustav News

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=apgSed0m_hkg&refer=energy As of 2pm EST, lite sweet crude down $4.25/barrel since friday close. In related matter, CNBC forced not to run crap holiday programming and have live anchors report on Gustav and oil.
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    How to short Manhattan real estate?

    Yes, it was backwards. But rising dollar makes investment in US assets less attractive as the same 1M euro buys less at 1.3 than it did at 1.5. At this exchange, US properties are no longer as attractive an investment as they once were, and euro buyers will be more reluctant to make r.e...
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    Lightspeed Professional Trading Account

    You can do a FINRA search to see what type of disciplinary actions or arbitration may have been launched against these firms since they are both licensed with the proper regulatory agencies.
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    How to short Manhattan real estate?

    NYC real estate will start showing significant cracks when the dollar rebounds to about 1.30 on the Euro. Only when Euro based buyers who came into the market to buy NYC properties at depressed prices (relative to dollar exchange rates) see the value of their investment drop by 15% or more will...
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    Lightspeed Professional Trading Account

    IB has an electronic, online application process to open an account. If you printed up all the steps and the associated addendum's and such, it would easily equal or exceed what another broker has sent you. It's just the nature of the business.
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    Why is there a 6 pip spread on the EURUSD right now?

    The lowest pip spread Oanda has is on the EUR/USD at .9 pips so I am curious to what Oanda quotes you are looking at that are giving you .5 spread???
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    Why is there a 6 pip spread on the EURUSD right now?

    Oanda has 10 (or more) pip wide quotes until 8pm EDT. Been that way for a long, long, time. At approxiamatly 20:00:01 (EDT) rates return to normal spreads. Sometimes takes a few minutes more.
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    30 Under 30

    There was a good article in there this month about Schonfeld, T3, and some other "real" prop firms and how this industry was not dead but thriving and pointing out how most of the idiots who traded in late 1990's should never have been there in the first place. These places are funding the guys...
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    Deducting trading expenses with a full time job (job not related to trading)

    Listen to the CPA's. They know more than you. As to LLC, it is an entity onto itself. And yes, you can have a single member LLC. with full income pass-through. Just understand if you go that route, you will be paying professional fees, not non-professional. Corporations and partnerships are...
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    Ivan's Trade Thread

    At this level, (7030) why not put a stop at cost in here. At least it would be free money the rest of the day.
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