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In order to make it in this business, you need to have passion for the markets. If you don't love this game, even when you're losing day in day out... you don't have a shot. One thing you want to ask these guys is what kind of fee's you'll be getting [depending on your style of...

Without short sellers to take profits during down movements, there much less resistance to the panic... If you make it virtually impossible to allocate shorts for a stock at a reasonable price then you reduce the number of short sellers. When you reduce the number of short sellers, you...

If they extend this to the whole market... we're going to have ourselves one nasty tank, instead of a prolonged bear market...

Excelent point... shorts take profits during the panic... making the market bounce a little on the way down... without the shorts it's just plain freefall...

You probably think it's a good idea to take "speculators" out of the oil market. More government messing around with the market is NOT what we need... the only thing you're going to get from that is drier markets with more volatility... Short sellers are a vital part of the market... they...

The OP sounds like he's saying: "I want patience and I want it NOW!" lol... In order to acquire patience one must first have faith. You must have faith in that which you are expecting patiently... It is during the times of tribulation that we develop our patience... for it is then...

Do you mean the SHO Threshold list?

What the SEC's restriction managed to do was to increase the cost of allocating the stock, to such an extend that most fully clothed short sellers can't short the stock anymore. The guy's who had FTD's before the SEC"s measure, still have FTD's. While the day traders [who cannot fail to...

The problem is not the naked shorts, the problem is the FTD's. By enforcing the locate on these securities, the SEC is giving the prime brokers a chance to make huge money charging ridiculous amounts for the shares they allocate. While not dealing with the actual problem... FTD's. In...

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At least 3 times a week, after the market closes, I get this feeling like I run out of steam and I just bunk... At 3:55 I'm totally energetic... by 4:15 I'm ready to go to sleep... feeling tired and maybe even a headache... Any one else gets a "hangover" effect after the market closes?

It's true that a lot of liquidity is good for scaling up. It reduces slippage and keeps the spreads tight, but it also makes it more difficult to buy at the bid or sell at the ask. Depending or your style of trading this might be a good or a bad thing.

Why is liquidity so important if you're trading on 1-3 carts per trade?

That's just the politicians excuse for raising taxes. Reality is, taxes make bureaucrats fat, the leftovers go to the poor.

Don't forget option C.... Fanny and Freddie become a black hole and start sucking more and more of the gov's resources... creating larger and larger deficits until they make the Iraq bill look like a picnic... Don't worry, your grand children will pay for it...

Even better, put it in oil futures... ohh wait no... that'll make you an evil speculator... better put it in the bank... banks never fail, they're safe.

Taxes help the poor... LOL... that's a good one...

The GE [Eurodollar - CME] is incredibly liquid, not only on the front month but up to several years forward...

The reason weed's illegal is that anyone can grow it, so it's no good for taxing... :confused:

You're saying that stocks are not suitable for short term trading systems. What I'm saying is that stocks are suited for short term trading; and yes I say it based on my experience in Swift where I see 4000 people beating the stock market day in day out, while trading in very short time...