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The Wikipedia link was good. I liked the link at the end of the Wikipedia entry about the GS attempts to control major highways for profit. It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely. I don't agree with this; in the right hands, great power can be wielded very wisely and...

I read in Trader magazine that Goldman Sachs has gotten to the point of matching up 50% of the NYSE trades. Like, are they going to take over the NYSE? It appears that they get a bird's eye view of the orders coming and going. Who regulates them? Are they a bunch of glorified thugs in...

I am a pretty new student of commodities trading. I wondering how the ag futures (and other commodities) behaved in the period during and after 9/11 and Oct 19, '87? I can look up charts, of course. What I am looking more for is analysis and insight and war stories of how commodities...

This is outdated for this thread, but thought I'd post this nonetheless. Here are alaron's rates per Paul Brittain headof the Las Vegas Branch, from an e-mail dated 0ct 13, 2007 Commission Rates Commission rates are based upon the level of service that you choose. All rates are...

yeah, correct. if there is any question about liquidity or whether the pit is on the up and up, i should take no chance. Deeply liquid electonic trading i suppose should be the default mode for rme, unless i have a darn good argument to deviate from that, especially since I am a one-lot trader...

thinking about doing commodities trading with Interactive Brokers. I am remembering from reading threads quite sometime ago that Interactive Brokers wouldn't allow stops on pit traded commodities. ("It's because we care about you.." was the stated rationale, or some such.) wondering if...

Any opinions about George Kleinman's brokerage firm Commodity Resource Corporation? George was the past editor of Future Magazine. George is the editor of the damn-good free newsletter Commodities Trends. George also runs his aforementioned Commodity Resource Corporation (CRC). Maybe...

I have toyed extensively with the idea of lmovign ot Vegas, laying down my hard-earned cash, and giving Bright Trading a try. There is a saying that an institution is the lengthened shadow of a man (or two men,or woman, or what have you). After Don and Bob leave Bright Trading, will Bright...