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Very interesting post. Sounds like a "pump on margin" as they sell the stock to themselves. Call me cynical but my bet is that IB will spend some hundreds of thousands on attorney fees in Singapore over the next year ... keep the issue in play, comment a few times as if their is progress and...

I don't trade stocks and I don't carry any futures positions overnight. But if I were a longer term equity trader/investor I would simply never fight the Fed. That would be rule one of my plan. An addiction to cheap money is very similiar to a heroin habit to the markets. Once hooked -- and...

I don't trade stocks and I don't carry any futures positions overnight. But if I were a longer term equity trader/investor I would simply never fight the Fed. That would be rule one of my plan. An addiction to cheap money is very similiar to a heroin habit to the markets. Once hooked --...

I removed it because I saw you had covered it in an earlier post.

I agree that he will not be able to trade "immediately" but to suggest these firms do due diligence is a joke. Have a pulse? Funds are cleared? Come right this way!

Yellin is a dove. Given any metric to hang her hat on she will delay the taper.

I'm not sure when the revoloution (not using revoloution lightly) in solar power will impact vehicles but if you look at how the price and efficiency of solar power is moving it barely pays to erect an old school generating plant at this point. Solar is either now competitive without subsidy...

In the end the game changer to the downside for the US is if it is actually late on an interest or principal payment on any of its debt. Almost no one expects that to happen so almost everyone expects a deal that at least kicks it down the road. It is not every day that nearly everyone...

Unless you believe a specific person has something to teach you that will help you to eventually cobble together your own methodolgy, chating about trading not only doesn't help it hurts. Those who say humans are a social animal are correct but it is unnecessary to socialize all day, every...

Why? It's an expectation game. It has always been one and always will be one.

I don't own any gold and I have never owned a single ounce of it. I have no intention of buying any in the short term as I believe I can generate a higher rate of return over the next year or two as a trader than I can long gold. That said I believe that sometime in the next ten or twenty...

RN, I've always suspected you are the furthest thing from what a New Yorker would consider a sterotypical redneck ... lol. In fact I suspect you are not a redneck in any sense; too sophisticated, subtle (at times) and intelectual. Yet you must consider this: When a man tells you that he is...

RN, I have read your posts for years and they have frequently caused me to think a bit deeper than I had. On this one (as opposed to some others) my problem is not a lack of understanding -- your comment about the individual rock vis-a-vis the rock population makes complete sense to me. I...

My plan does not call for me to consider that someone might be "gunning for me". Maybe that will change someday but I still have "leaks" that relate to who I am and the decisions I make. I have more critical issues -- many more critical ones -- that need constant attention.

The area in and around Atlantic County NJ, RN, is reputed to have the world's best blueberries. I didn't know they continue to ripen and that strawberries don't. BTW, while I, of course, agree with all that say that the approach of not caring about the outcome of any particular trade is how...

I hope I didn't leave you with the impression that I thought knowing someone did something for ones ability to trade and I also hope that nothing I said led you to believe that I knew any of the long list of things that you don't know. I also hope that both the blueberries and strawberries...

Makes them less nervous if your basic income provides adequate coverage. And if the additional income from trading has some consistent history that helps.

Don't you think using larger samples would make you better at it. Seeing patterns your way introduces more randomness ... why do it?

I have had the experience of being on the wrong side of the "evaporation" -- having a short executed at it's bottom for it to instantly bounce back up and take me out. I think you may be guessing wrong and expressing concepts s/he is not aware of.

I'm not sure what you mean by "look reputable".