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    forex volume

    lg cap, what type of volumes are you thinking of ? thought there was only one with spot the volume will vary from broker to broker, I've noticed on Oanda's 5 sec chart there'll sometimes be more trades registering via price bars than the 6E futures contract the other thing about volume is...
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    How does "Occupy Wall Street" effect the economy and the market?

    I think adadadog pretty well said it all: ". . . America is not a democracy, it is rather a money-man's oligarchy . . ." from my pov I like to blame the CFMA 2000 as the means by which the subprime and subsequent credit crisis arose...
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    market or broker ? — 3 spreads compared

    economic releases often result in some price volatility which may last just a few seconds, or longer. sometimes a news release may cause volatility, and a high volume order hitting the market may also cause price volatility yesterday's Friday NFP release was used to compare the spread from...
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    Zenfir, Amp futures connection problem today?

    probably down for service
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    why's MetaTrader's feed so reliable compared to . . .

    FxTrade didn't disconnect, just stopped updating
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    Is there any chart to see the unemployment rate in the past 70 years?

    US Unemployment Rate 1890-2008 US Unemployment Duration 1950-early 2011
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    why's MetaTrader's feed so reliable compared to . . .

    it's imo a real pity MetaQutoes never went the full distance with MT and designed MetaTrader to provide tick and up timeframes with the various chart types that other programs provide besides offering one of the best tools selections with 'unlimited' user inputs, the data feed is 100%...
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    NinjaTrader-AMP-CQG down

    tallpaw, yes, I got the failed login, phoned AMP and they said CQG was back up hit the Connect again and it went thru ok not long after got the lady telling me there was a disconnection, but the prices continued updating, then the connection came back up nothing on the NT forum about it
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    New Books - business, economy, trading

    the Amazon links provide reviews of the book but check EliteTrader's bookstore to see if a deal is available http://www.invest-store.com/cgi-bin/elitetrader-bin/redir.cgi?moreinfo.cgi?item=11221 'Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius' Sylvia Nasar Sep 2011 also 'A Beautiful Mind'...
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    Forex Broker Ratings

    http://www.forexpeacearmy.com/
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    'Forex Probe Ramps Up As Government Steps In' - banks

    by Grant McCool NEW YORK | Wed Oct 5, 2011 3:58pm EDT "NEW YORK (Reuters) - A years-long investigation into whether Bank of New York Mellon Corp and other banks overcharged clients on foreign-exchange transactions has risen to a new level with a civil fraud action by federal prosecutors...
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    why trade options ?

    I've 'been Short' the ES since last year, with the proviso of If a reversal formation occurs, one did and completed in July this year Stops aren't generally part of my intraday trading system and while I'd thought about writing one for the example, chose not to since I expected the ES price...
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    Historical S&P PE Ratio from 1880 to today

    under 10: http://bespokeinvest.typepad.com/bespoke/2009/08/sp-500-pe-ratio-nearly-doubles.html
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    why trade options ?

    thanks FrankSlaughtery for replying, unfortunately I know Nothing about options would you please explain your option trade in more detail and with $ amounts
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    why trade options ?

    here's a what-if trade Mon Oct 3/11 , Sell one ES contract at 1111.00 looking to close the trade at 1051.00 or there abouts the 1051 might get hit this week, but might take until next week I could daytrade each session and not have to front the $5K, but would have to pay the rt commission...
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    why trade options ?

    if I think that the ES be higher/lower next week, what advantage is there to trading an option - a straight B/S - rather than trading the futures contract ?
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    Friday after the close. California leaves home foreclosure settlement group.

    thanks for the thread wilburbear, didn't know about the investigation, it certainly hasn't been headline news, and the whole mortgage fiasco seems to be a dead dog left in the gutter
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    'Facebook Tracking - How to Stop It'

    'Facebook Is Tracking Your Every Move on the Web; Here’s How to Stop It' by Alan Henry Sep 26, 2011 "Over the weekend, Dave Winer wrote an article at Scripting.com explaining how Facebook keeps track of where you are on the web after logging in, without your consent. Nik Cubrilovic dug...
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    AAPL PUTS in the MONEY - NEED HELP

    the op will own 100 Apples shares for a purchase price of $15.95 ?
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    'Why The Euro Must Be Defended'

    agree with you Debaser82 I think the typical fly-out-the-mouth comments are mixing eggs with bananas there's the EU debt there's the Greece problem there's the possibility of other countries becoming a problem there's the stability of the EU and there's the currency, the Euro I...
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