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How does a 47 story building (WTC 7) collapse in free fall with fires on a few floors? No skyscraper in history has ever collapsed from fires. A 44 story building in china burnt for 3 days and didn't collapse, let alone free fall collapse. Thoughts? PBS documentary...

Here is visual of the tape on the 1 second . I don't have actual historical time and sales data. I think CME website has it somewhere.

Also, Peter Brandt in his book "diary of a professional commodity trader" was talking about how slippage/spread is what the broker is making on top of your comish and that it's unethical for brokers to be greedy by taking advantage of slippage/spread from customers. Can anyone expand on this as...

I've had a couple stops get hit for 8-10 ticks in gold and oil before. Doesn't happen too often but it does happen. I use limits/stop limits for entry so I know I am in control of the max price I will pay but I can't control my fill for stop loss . You could do a stop limit entry with a...

"THERE are two kinds of knowledge. One is general, the other is specialized. General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of but little use in the accumulation of money. The faculties of the great universities possess, in the aggregate, practically every form of...

If done right one can do it relatively cheap. Get a head start senior year of highschool by getting some college general eds done for free. Then go to CC to finish the correct general ed credits to transfer into a better 4 year college for the last two years. My GF did it with no...

OP, CL and NG both have ample intraday swings and good vol most of the time. I like CL personally, but that is just my preference based on costs/volatility/# of intraday swings Throw up charts of cl, ng, tf, gc, a grain market or two, and you will see some good opportunities every day in...

By then your local walmart will probably look like this. :)

Yeah pretty much

How about the complete opposite. Don't print one more dollar and get back to non fiat currency. Then what?

Is the holy grail selling your "holy grail" for 10k a piece? -1 lol thanks for the laughs Mr doubles other thread "holy grail for sale" http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=240550&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

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We've been in a range on larger timeframes,( month and year) for a while in the s$P. We'll see higher vol in the future, could be years away, could be hours, depends on your timeframe of reference really. All I know is quiet , loud , quiet , loud. Each market is at a different place in it's...

low volatility leads to high volatility, high volatility leads to low volatility, price goes up, price goes down, volume goes up , volume goes down. I read somewhere that " there will always be a new high in volatility coming "

Brokers, MM's , and HFT can eat each other for a while, The strongest will survive, the weak will vanish.

other species stay with a mate for life, some swans ect. I wonder if humans are hardwired to have one mate for life or to just f*ck anything that walks? Culturally it seems marriage is huge but on a fundamental instinct level I would have sex with tons of women if it wasn't against my moral...

Interesting article from today "10 things your marriage counselor won't tell you." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-things-your-marriage-counselor-wont-say-2012-08-20?mod=MKTW_ALL&link=sfmw

All these people complaining that life is shitty yada yada yada wouldn't have had a chance in hell any time before the 1900's when life was 10x harder. Stop looking at what you DON"T HAVE, and start looking at what you DO HAVE.

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Cl is great trading every damn day. Head on over. We'll play nice, promise :)