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    Today's big up move

    option expiry week and maybe some folks were a tad too short on a wed afternoon 2 days before settlement :p
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    Refco Owes Jim Rogers Fund $362 Million

    -Rogers Raw Materials Fund - $287,436,182 -Rogers International Raw Materials - $75,213,814 www.bankrupt.com/refco.txt
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    John W. Henry fund on REFCO BK list

    how come mark fisher is not on that list? he is considered one of the top floor traders and has made a few others millionaires also www.streetstories.com/default.htm :confused:
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    short EUR/USD...

    empee ... were you asleep when your trade was in the money for you ? did you lower stops to take some partial profits on your short ( trade of the yr )?
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    Questions concerning FX Futures

    hi lou you can go to the websites of the futures exchanges such as www.cme.com to find some of your answers someone on ET once posted a "live" FX spot and futures page as well that would show you how they move in tandem.
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    short EUR/USD...

    nice to see you posting again maria have a nice week down under there in your part of the world :)
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    IB Lowers Futures Commissions

    assuming IB does not lower its "bundled" rates can someone give me an example of how they are saving money unbundled if non member status
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    Where to go after Refco?

    in this day of almost 24 hour futures trading ... why would someone still need to do EFP's ? :confused:
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    Holding Positions All Day!

    I know in stock index futures and some other futures it pays to know the ATR and daily pivots I have not tried to see how this plays out in indivual stocks since they can be more news driven on certain days
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    Terror Alert!

    are the tubes open again ?
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    Scalping the S&P E-mini Futures-ES

    consider the use of pivots , know the recent highs / lows and daily ranges in ES , support / resistance levels ... try not to average down ... and definately do not do this more than once a day or week etc look at other NYSE indicators too as well as other markets that can influence the ES...
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    Scalping the S&P E-mini Futures-ES

    hello sir ... in my opinion ... you are swinging too much for the fences ... too much size for someone who has only been trading ES for a few weeks what happens if something strange were to happen and you had 10 contracts on and there was a spike of 10 handles against you ? good luck...
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    RFX - whats the new symbol?

    in a case like this where a retail or prop customer (s) are long a stock and then it is halted and gaps way lower ... I assume this produces margin calls ... how does a firm protect itself from having too much risk here ?
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    NYC Traders

    hey dude ... you a white sox fan ? gosh they beat the cubbies into the world series! I am sure there are some folks at your new firm that drink but I can suggest a few places if needed problem is I do not know which ones anymore have the best women to men ratio or best looking women...
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    housing crash

    www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/realestate/columns/realestate/14781/
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    Object Lesson in Due Diligence

    refco commentary .... http://slate.msn.com/id/2128196/
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    top performance through undertrading ?

    was browsing robbins trading site ... do they really charge $20 commissions in the contest ? hope thats RT rate ! -The big payoffs, however, were still a few years away. In 2000, Kurt took center stage in the World Cup by lapping the field with a commanding 595%* return. And then in...
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    IB new forex spreads

    how come when globex opened up sunday night in EST ( time zone approx 6 pm ) the IDEALFXPRO spreads for USD / EUR were 4-5 pips wide ? I guess one could have entered their orders inside the spread at that time to become the NBBO and wait to be executed against :)
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    Amsterdam - beertje anyone?

    hej ... had a nice beer a week or so ago ... from your country / city ... Struis - 9%, a strong dark ale packed with chocolate and dried fruit flavours. lekka ! :D
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    Experienced Forex Trader Needed

    how much money do the traders have to put up? what protection is there that traders monies will be there for withdrawal at any time ? :)
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