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    Intervention to save the dollar

    The only way to support the dollar is to begin raising rates. Take back some of the emergency 75 bp SocGen inspired rate cut from earlier this year. 25 now and 25 in the fall would go a long way to push the dollar in the direction it is dying to go but won't until the fundamentals change.
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    Intervention to save the dollar

    Yes intervention does not work in the long run. The fx marketplace is too large (est daily dollar volume over 3T USD) for any sustained effect if only a few billion dollars are thrown at it. When fed banks try to intervene, you are talking about 5, 10, 25 billion used to influence the direction...
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    Funds Protection under IB

    SIPC coverage is for equity and cash balances only. OTC, futures, derivative products do not fall under this umbrella of protection. The IB Universal account automatically sweeps unused cash balances from this trading into the area that is covered by SIPC. In other words, if you have open...
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    Futures Broker - Arbitration Agreement

    You don't have to accept arbitration in the event of a dispute, hence this phrase on (just about?) every traiding account that you will submit to a US based broker. That being said, the brokerage is under no obligation to accept you as a client if you don't accept arbitration in the event of...
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    Deserpate to find a trader job...help?

    trading positions at REAL cuurency shops are hard to come by unless you have someone who can help you get your foot in the door. That being said, many firms DO have training programs that solicit recent college grads as opposed to experienced traders as they don't want to hire those who already...
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    Why are thousands of plastic "burial vaults" near Madison?

    Oh. I guess they're gonna need a lot of them then.
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    Why are thousands of plastic "burial vaults" near Madison?

    And this has to do with trading section how? Do you have the name of the manufacturer so we could buy their stock?
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    250.00 managed FX?

    From the Craigslist ad: "Can go into more detail on the phone, email, lunch, dinner, lets make it happen!! " Sounds more like a Match.com come on. :)
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    Which currency will hit parity with the US$ next

    In light of current price action I thought I'd revisist this thread again. At the start of business 7/21 we have Swissy at 1.0225 and Aussie at around .9705. Aussie has been trending higher and higher for the past few weeks, even separating their umbilical cord relationship with the Kiwi, as...
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    What do you think about marketiva?

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5627694446211716271
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    Another one-unit incremental trade size Retail Spot Forex Broker

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5627694446211716271
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    I Want To Get A Job Working For These Guys:

    Came across this listing on Craigslist for one of these new breed of firms where you pay for training and then you trade "their" funds. Won't post the link here but I think the screen grab pretty much sums up how effective their "training" can be:
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    Example of Bush Supporter

    Public nudity? Are you sure you are representing the correct demographics? Sounds more like a member of the lunatic left, not a rw wingnut.
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    How do I backup my emails?

    Yeh, it can be a little easier. Just make sure to include all subdirectories when you export to the new file.
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    New Short Rules

    So the pre-borrow is only going to be for these stocks, not all the others? Because I was hearing that some firms would now be requiring pre-borrow for other stocks as well. 19 stocks I believe most traders can live w/o trading short, but if this is extended out, it will kill the day traders.
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    How do I backup my emails?

    search your computer for *.pst files. One of these will/should be outlook.pst. This file contains all your current emails and contact list. Copy this file to wherever. Also copy the archive.pst file as more than likely Outlook backed up some emails automatically. On new computer, copy file to...
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    New Short Rules

    How will the new short sale rules that go into effect on Monday affect the daytrader? Will these new rules pretty much make shorting stocks for scalping, etc, no longer viable? Is this another nail in the coffin of daytrading equities? Or maybe I am interpreting the rules wrong.
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    SPOT FX Price available in IB Demo ?

    Spot prices on IB TWS are separated by a period, i.e. EUR.USD. If you LOOKED on their web page first under product listings you could have found all the relevant info you needed!
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    The U.S. Gov't Can't BAIL out Every BANK

    http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
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    Washington Mutul bank run?

    Like you say, even in good times you get bank failures, as evidenced by the pre-2007 numbers. For a banking "crisis" having only a handful so far is pretty damn good. Don't know if you are old enough to remember stuff from 20 yrs ago, but then it was the "end of the world as we knew it" but we...
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