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    Building metal inventories illegal?

    countries do it all the time. Russia did it a few years ago with the nickel market. From what I understand this is how they did it. 70% of the nickel market is supplied by france and canada. - their nickel is high quality and it never gets to sit in inventories for too long, it goes...
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    Building metal inventories illegal?

    Any thoughts as to why where they unable to corner the market? What was their billion dollar mistake?
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    Building metal inventories illegal?

    which market did they try to corner?
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    Building metal inventories illegal?

    It's not illegal to build inventories. However, it is illegal to corner a market to artificially inflate prices [unless you're the Saudi goberment, then its ok to do it]. Is kind of like doing a pump and dump strategy, just that you do it in a much larger scale with a few more 000's.
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    Cramer's Mad Money Calls

    What's wrong with a little fresh meat?
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    Learning about ECNs and Market Makers

    let him pick his ecns based on web traffic... Im sure he'll do just fine... To the Op Bloomberg runs an ecn too... As to market makers... there's a lot more to say about them. Do some research on the underwritting process and you'll understand better why they have the obligation of...
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    When should we leave Iraq?

    That Iraq war is like being in a trade Long 50,000 shares, when the CEO of the company comes on NBC declaring that they've been cooking finantial statements for a while and they've been broke for a couple of years... time to get the hell out...
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    Can you hit your own bid from your other account?

    Its called wash trading.
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    Can you hit your own bid from your other account?

    Why? what profit could you gain? Whatever you win on account A you lose to account B, and you also lose commisions.
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    any mutual fund traders/managers here

    Do you use dark books to get your orders filled? How illiquid, less than 100k per day?
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    Using VWAP

    not for all symbols... only the ones with recent cross over.
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    NYSE specialist

    what happens if the stock just goes through the LRP?
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    Using VWAP

    Let me rephrase, where can I get the current VWAP for a particular stock {in real time}?
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    any mutual fund traders/managers here

    I dont mean estimating from 8 am, but during the day...
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    any mutual fund traders/managers here

    how can you estimate what the VWAP is going to be for the end of the day?
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    NYSE specialist

    yes, but automated sistems fall for it all the time, and you dont even need to fake thousands of shares, 100 will do the trick {they just want to be in front of you.
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    Using VWAP

    Im interesting on learning how do institutions use VWAP when filling their orders... what kind of setup should I use if I wanted to use it as a guideline for my trading?
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    Liquidity Trader. Need Help.

    the ecn rebate is $2 INET/ARCA - 2.5 EDGA per thousand each way. before comissions. Thats $4-5 round trip
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    Liquidity Trader. Need Help.

    wow you're right, I got to it through the search and didnt realize how old it was... !!!
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    Liquidity Trader. Need Help.

    Liquitidy rebates are around $4-5 per thousand shares depending on the firm and ecn you use. Usually the idea of trading rebates is getting scaled economies as you get charged the same exec fee on larger trades.
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