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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    "we dont need to go around in circles and disccuss things we have done so many times." most posters are clueless to the math behind the FTT, which shows that even .001 tax would them out of business. then there are the the usual braggarts I can trade some other instruments other than stocks...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    it never ends. today from the NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/opinion/the-case-for-a-tax-on-financial-transactions.html?rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the...
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    cheating is a big business ipo

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ha...of-37-million-ashley-madison-users-2015-07-20 http://www.businessinsider.com/ashley-madison-london-ipo-could-be-swapped-for-investment-vehicle-2015-7 tell me the co. didn't know in early july. any way for these hackers to collect in a legal manner?
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    failure to disclose ashley madison

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hackers-threaten-to-expose-secrets-of-37-million-ashley-madison-users-2015-07-20 http://www.businessinsider.com/ashley-madison-london-ipo-could-be-swapped-for-investment-vehicle-2015-7 tell me the co. didn't know in early july. any way for these hackers to...
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    racial data base to undo failed black achievement

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-racial-database-post/2015/07/18/id/657837/
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    Bloomberg -- take over my contract

    as legit as Sykes
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    35 year horizon - what would you hold?

    long yuan
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    Germany must be forced out of the Euro Monetary Union.

    "They will still need to pay their creditors, but on their terms rather than terms dictated by Germany." yes, pay argentinian style, while the PIGS goes bankrupt and the middle class flees piezoe with your leftist leaning , you would recommend that the finance ministers of the pigs study the...
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    a 10-year experience Chinese stock trader lost all in 10 minutes

    old wall street saying:don't confuse brains with a bull market.
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    need help with this please (comissions)

    politeness will get you kicked out of ET. :) you must be somewhere from Europe.
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    need help with this please (comissions)

    friction costs, as above, are what kills any supposedly successful trading system but they do sell newsletters which fail to include them.
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    Airline Economics - Casino-like fuel hedges to hurt airlines in oil plunge

    I like the fact that you dug up this article. however, it contains the same relentless nonsense used by industry insiders when they are unhappy with the price of their particular futures contract, due to their own incompetence which leads to losses in their hedged positions. basically they...
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    Airline Economics - Casino-like fuel hedges to hurt airlines in oil plunge

    it doesn't sound like losses on paper but real losses. in any case i have always believed that losses on paper are real while profits on paper are not real and illusionary until realized
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    Bloomberg -- take over my contract

    ever hear of dark pools?
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    greek bailout just approved by greece. watch for merkel, leader of germany, to push for european-wide ftt to pay for bailout.
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    Bloomberg -- take over my contract

    I bid $300. the market is now $300 x $2000 1x1
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    to say it is not sidetracked is a given. there will always be politicians and left wing economists who will make trial balloons.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    the republicans are overconfident about future elections. work is becoming less rewarding when compared to receiving a check from the gov't, free health care, food stamps and other perks. the bills have to be paid. therefore an FTT will sound attractive to legislators even though the amount...
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    GREECE and the Euro

    new blocs will come into existense. a northern euro consisting of germany and parts of scandinavia and parts of eastern europe and surprise Iceland. the southern bloc will consist of latin countries inc. perennial loser france + some other losers.
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    The idea of ftt will never die. it is a desperate grab for revenue with projections that are never realized. It will kill off retail traders including hft traders. once instituted it is never rescinded. India has talked for years of revoking it. it has never happened.
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