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    China says it won't recognize the recent copper trades...

    if thats case ... how come copper has not sold off hard and stayed down since this "news" ?
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    Few points against shorting EUR/USD

    deprai ... your chart reading skills must be different than mine ... no matter ... you stayed in your trade and made a mint ... keep it up ... I want to read about you in the forbes400 next to the other famous ET traders here next yr :p
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    Cerberus

    story is from early october about a different kind of HF ... www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_40/b3953110.htm
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    To Anyone Who Has Made the Transition Into Futures

    mike ... you could have gone short the XLE perhaps based on that call of yours http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=XLE&t=3m&l=on&z=m&q=b&c= :)
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    www.jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com -In a survey conducted last week, real-estate consulting firm Real Trends found that the number of home-purchase contracts signed last month dropped 8% from a year earlier at 48 of the nation's large real-estate brokerage firms. Those brokers...
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    Spectrum Capital Partners

    how did shoney get to stay in business and get to continue to keep traders from jumping ship if their payout is so low ? why would not a prop trader go retail now there and get to keep all of his profit instead ?
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    Physical Commodities Trading...

    start here ... http://cms.zug-tourismus.ch/ViewPage.asp?Site=ZUG&PageID=1337&lang=199 :p
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    Long the Euro at 1643

    mr vision trader ... do not these two statements made by you in the last few days contradict each other ? - I got long early this morning with a full position- -BTW - I was not implying that this was any major bottom- :confused:
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    TradeStation Securities reduces trading thresholds and futures commissions.

    can you cut and paste that link ? I could not read it
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    gold

    higher overnight so far after a huge day today to the upside ... www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=aWCV74GKcqMo&refer=australia maybe later this yr I will sell some silver dollars I own :p
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    Switching from equities to futures

    I have said this before and will say it again forget your having a decent sized acct for starters if you must trade stock index futures ... try smaller size in the ETF's at first ... get comfortable confident trading SMALL SIZE ! ( i.e. 100-200 SPY maybe if you must then go up to 500 in...
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    Nasdaq cycles.

    walther I know someone who posts elsewhere about cycles and "change of direction" points etc but he usually gives a few days either way and even if he is right more often than not ... is hard for me to think a short term trader could follow his signals if your #'s short term or time of...
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    Intercontinental Exchange IPO

    greed or common sense here ? saw this on reuters wire today excerpted ... -Nov 14 - (ICE) filed on Monday to raise its planned initial public offering to 16 million shares at an estimated price of $24 to $26 per share. The company had previously set its IPO at 10 million shares at a...
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    Few points against shorting EUR/USD

    curious why you held position when USDCHF dipped 100 pips against your position before you sold it later on ? is your stop ( mental ) that wide usually ?
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    ET could have saved this guy $15

    I love this one !!! -Can anyone teach me to become an Equity Trader?- -Answer- -There is no answer at this time.- :p
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    IB's "IDEAL"

    hi def ... from what I am seeing now EUR SPOT IDEALPRO FX shows 1.1694 X 1.1696 but USD / EUR on IDEAL shows 0.8547 X 0.8553 what is EUR / USD on IDEAL doing ? it seems to stay at 1.17 X 1.17 locked or disappears ? ( I know the numbers will have changed by the time...
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    My Prediction For Oil

    not to poke fun at your trade as I am not in QM or CL futures at this time , but ... how come you did not go short crude futures weeks ago ? good luck ! :)
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    Coding the Turtle System

    I got an email recently from the russell sands newsletter ( he was a turtle trader vendor for yrs ) excerpt below ... -Turtles as a rule do not trade Intra Day or the S&Ps (in fact Rich Dennis said "do not trade the S&Ps using the Turtles methods")- you might want to contact him to...
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    open outcry still lives on !

    excerpted from ... www.nymex.com -New York, N.Y., November 14, 2005 — A seat on the NYMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., sold today for a record $3,775,000, the most ever for a seat on any futures exchange.- I remember when seats were 1/10 that price :(
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    _lets be honest ... the folks who bought either R.E. or housing stocks a yr or more ok are still doing ok but some folks who bought in the last 6 months are nervous nellies ... ( note ... I am deparately trying to figure out the best way to hedge my families R.E. holdings ... as each...
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